Poster sessions: Theme 1 active citizenship and smart city infrastructure
What does it mean to have a smart city? How does active citizenship look? The cities in the western countries already look very modern, technological and smart. However, as a collective, we’re not there yet. On Wednesday 20th April in the afternoon during the poster sessions, multiple people will be talking about these topics. This is the program for theme 1: Active citizenship and smart city infrastructure.
We’ll kick off with Javad Keypour. He will be talking about Smart Grids: A Technical Solution or a Legal Challenge for Carbon Abatement in EU Energy Sector?
The legal challenges of energy sector digitalisation and smart grids development have been discussed. It shows data security, customers' privacy, competition law and cross-border energy transmission infrastructure should be resolved by the EU to achieve the energy digitalisation targets.
Taina Vuorela & Panu Jalas will be talking about Smart Is As Smart Does: Low Power Wide Area Networks for Orchestrated Co-Creation of Smart City Infrastructures.
State-of-the-art wireless LPWAN technologies enable individual organisations or citizens to set up affordable ad hoc smart city infrastructures. The focus is especially on the motivational factors that either encourage or discourage individuals or businesses to co-create smart city solutions.
Anneli Auranen & Kaj Lindedahl & Pia-Tuulia Laine will be talking about Testing and developing recycling solutions with citizens.
Metropolia UAS is carrying out a pilot where new recycling solutions for households are being tested by citizens. Feedback from the pilot is collected and the data is used to develop a recycling solution that serves the needs of different kinds of households. Better solutions will be found.
Next up, Rabeya Begum will be talking about A critical evaluation of different methods of urban climate mapping: A Case Study of Glasgow City.
This paper creates urban climatic maps in GIS to visualize the spatial distribution of urban heat risk for Glasgow city and evaluates the risk synthesizing processes. This study demonstrates the influencing factors while identifying the priority intervention areas for sustainable urban planning.
Lastly, Heidi Tuhkanen & Helen Poltimäe & Ilona Enyedi & Piret Kuldna will be talking about Residents` preferences on urban green infrastructure planning.
Resident participation is seen as key to the planning of urban green infrastructure in order to account for resident perceptions at an early enough stage in the planning process. This paper explores the use of digital Participatory GIS (PGIS) for the planning of green infrastructure.
In addition to these poster sessions, there will be workshops and parallel sessions held on Thursday. There the topic continues. Check the program for day 2 here.
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