A couple of months ago, the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE) selected Trento among the top ten smartest cities in the world.

Each of selected cities was invited to develop a project about a specific area and to share its achievements with IEEE and other cities. Trento has to identify technological and innovative solutions to improve citizens’ quality of life.

In order to achieve this objective, the Municipality of Trento, University of Trento, Trento Rise and IEEE have organized the event called “Trento e il Trentino, città e comunità intelligenti al servizio del cittadino”, on 12 December 2014 in Trento. The event involved the city system of higher education and research, as well as companies and institutions with research centres located in the area. It was the occasion for the exchange of information and ideas, as well as for presentation of on-going projects related to smart cities. GraphiTech awoke a lot of interest with the presentation of its on-going i-SCOPE and SUNSHINE projects, their research results and expected final outcomes.

The i-SCOPE project team has developed the first version of open platform to enable the access to 3D smart city services for pilot cities.

Click here to take a look at tutorial and explore the platform on the following website: http://iscope.graphitech-projects.com/

Fondazione GraphiTech has participated to the TEDxTrento event, which took place at the Social Theater in Trento on 22 November 2014. The i-SCOPE project has been presented to the wide public and has awoken a lot of interest.

TED is a nonprofit organization devoted to spreading ideas in the form of short and powerful talks. It is a global community that believes passionately in the power of ideas to change attitudes, lives and world.
The theme of the second edition of TEDxTrento was “Creativity and Diversity”, and there were speakers with different backgrounds who shared their ideas on the stage. The aim was to involve and engage the territory and key actors of innovation sector in order to create new projects and communities of innovators.

Fondazione GraphiTech will present the i-SCOPE project to the wide public at the Web Summit 2014. The event, taking place in Dublin from 4-6 November 2014, is expecting more than 20,000 participants and is considered among the major events in the world. It’s been called “The best technology conference on the planet”. Started in 2010 as an informal meet-up of 450 members of the tech community in Dublin, in three years has become the most influential and international tech event in Europe. Last year more than 10,000 attendees came from all over the globe, including business leaders from Google, Microsoft, Facebook, and over 60% of the Fortune 500. It showcased more than 250 world renowned speakers, 1,000 exhibitors, 100 satellite events and the opening of the Nasdaq market live on stage. This year Web Summit has grown even more and will showcase over 500 world renowned speakers, ten stages including the Digital Marketing, Internet of Things, Enterprise, and Builders Summits, 2,000 worldwide startups, over 200 satellite events and 1,000 investors.

This year’s event is wholly dedicated to the people and companies behind developing the technology that is fundamentally changing the way we live. The i-SCOPE project fits perfectly into this theme and it will be a great opportunity to present it to the wide public.

For more information about Web Summit 2014, attendees and speakers click here.