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Sofia
Sofia is the capital city of Bulgaria with 1.3 million inhabitants. Among the main environmental problems it faces, there are the high levels of harmful emissions and noise pollution. Sofia main goal is to reduce the use of personal cars, which may have a positive impact on air quality and climate change mitigation.
Envisaged solution
Sofia is looking for a socio-technical systems based on smart combinations of software and hardware (such as IoT sensors, VCR, GPS and AI plate recognition systems) that:
- collects relevant data from a certain area of the city centre’s blue zone
- defines the volume of car traffic searching for available parking spots and provide information regarding the parking occupancy rates.
Such information can and should be provided to the City Hall as well as to the car drivers by means of suitable mobile apps.
Information on the location of the experimentation
Specific requirements
- Solutions that promote datasets creation, including data acquisition by IoT sensors/VCR/GPS or AI plate recognition systems and the collection of real time environmental data
- Solutions that allow relevant data visualizations, both for remote monitoring purposes and to improve decision making
- Solutions that integrate created datasets and embed visualisation functions in a single tool;
- Solutions that embed gamification and/or educational aspects, such as general or specific advice on how to improve one’s own driving behaviour, understand data visualisations, etc.
- Solutions that are promptly available as applications (for smartphones and tablet PCs, on Android and/or IOS operating systems).
Minimum requirements
Local event about the challenge
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