IoT Living Lab (Amsterdam - The Netherlands)
Amsterdam Smart City (ASC) is an innovation platform where an active online and offline community exchanges knowledge for the future quality of living in the city. The network of engaged citizens can share ideas and collaborate on innovative projects that are being implemented in Amsterdam to address several challenges and problems in six different areas: Infrastructure and Technology; Energy, Water & Waste; Mobility; Circular City; Governance & Education; Citizens & Living.
One of the projects of ASC is the IoT Living Lab, where IoT interactivity in public spaces is promoted through a co-creation approach that allows citizens to create, share, and test bottom-up community-driven innovative solutions.
The IoT Living Lab provides the infrastructure to generate open data by beacons and LoRa enabled wireless sensor networks. These open data can then be used to accelerate smart citizen solutions, stimulating the creation of new start-ups and IoT applications. The Living Lab also provides access to developers and solution providers to test next-generation interactive mobile applications.
And because innovative smart city solutions are always worth sharing, a new project called “The Amsterdam Innovation Exchange Lab” was created to extend this bottom-up approach to a global level.
Sources:
https://amsterdamsmartcity.com/projects/iot-living-lab#about
Improved e-Governance and citizen services;
Improved supports for business.
Description of the specific objectives:
- Provide IoT infrastructure, actionable Open Data, and developer-friendly platforms for emerging IoT innovations;
- Stimulate the creation of new start-ups and mobile applications;
- Make a rapid impact on the local economy.
City of Amsterdam; Glimworm; ODINE (Open Data Incubator Europe); Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences; Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment; Technolution B.V.; Tapp B.V.; Makerversity Amsterdam.
Ensure the successful implementation of the Amsterdam Innovation Exchange Lab to effectively promote the sharing of best practices worldwide.
Eddystone beacons; iBeacons; sensors; LoRa (long range) wireless networks.
The IoT Living Lab is implemented in public spaces to provide open data access to developers and solution providers, so that they can test next generation interactive mobile applications. These apps, in turn, also generate open data, therefore creating new value chains across industries. Some specific applications of the IoT Living Lab include: The Beacon Mile (with a length of approximately 2 km between the Central Station and Marineterrein), Indoor way finding, Interactive Museum exhibitions (e-Culture), Smart Parking signs, crowd management, virtual guides, next generation wearables for sports, and e-health apps. Mobile apps that were already created: SAIL2015, Bardoggy, Muze Poezie, weCity, and Beacon Mile Explorer.
Meetups, workshops, hackathons, challenges, research projects, and city pilots with hundreds of participants have been organised since 2015 using open interactive public spaces. This resulted in several physical prototypes and solutions across industries. For instance, the app created for the SAIL Amsterdam 2015 maritime event (with more than 80,000 downloads) provided real-time information for emergency services to see how people moved through the city, creating over 2.3 million beacon-enabled interactions. Smart Parking signs are another good example. Delivery trucks can reserve a time slot for loading and unloading goods, not having to worry about finding a spot and being forced to drive around while they wait for a parking place. This way there is less traffic congestion in the city centre and efficiency of the whole system is improved. Utrecht and Amsterdam are already running pilots of these Smart Parking signs.