Make a Scrolling Hub75 Matrix Display using a Pimoroni Interstate75W and MQTT
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Open Gauges – Physical Data Display Devices
Developed at the Connected Environments Lab at The Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, University College London, the Open Gauges Project was launched in October 2021 as part of the Module on Sensor Data Visualisation (CASA0019…
Continue reading »Mobile Communications Technologies in Tree Time: The Listening Wood 
This article presents a practice-led investigation by a cross-disciplinary team of artists and computer scientists into the potential for mobile and digital communications technologies to engage visitors to London’s Hampstead…
Continue reading »Urban IoT: Advances, Challenges, and Opportunities for Mass Data Collection, Analysis, and Visualization
Urban Internet of Things (IoT) is in an early speculative phase. Often linked to the smart city movement, it provides a way of sensing and collecting data—environmental, societal, and transitional—both…
Continue reading »The Little Book of Public Space and the Internet of Things
Following on from our Little Book of Connected Environments and the Internet of Things we have a new publication – The Little Book of Public…
Continue reading »IoT 3D Printable Devices – The Spring 2021 Collection
At The Connected Environment Lab, part of The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis, here at University College London we are designing and building a…
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Smart Cities in IEEE Pervasive Computing
We are excited to announce that the special issue that we organized for IEEE Pervasive Computing is now out. In the special issue entitled “Smart Cities” and demonstrates the state of the art of pervasive computing technologies that collect, monitor, and analyze various aspects of urban life. The articles and departments in the special issue highlight the coming revolution in urban data via some of the different approaches researchers are taking to build tools and applications to better inform decision making (to reduce energy consumption or improve visitor flows, for example). Such research will be critical to setting goals for sustainable urban development within different global contexts. We need to better understand cities and their underlying systems if we want to improve the quality of urban life. To this end, in the special issue we have an introduction (editorial) followed by a number of articles, an interview and a research spotlight:
- Guest Editors’ Introduction:
- Creating Smart Buildings and Cities
- Andrew Crooks, Katja Schechtner, Anind K. Dey and Andrew Hudson-Smith.
- Articles:
- Noninvasive Bluetooth Monitoring of Visitors’ Length of Stay at the Louvre.
- Yuji Yoshimura, Anne Krebs and Carlo Ratti.
- ISO-Standardized Smart City Platform Architecture and Dashboard.
- Vladimir Zdraveski, Kostadin Mishev, Dimitar Trajanov and Ljupco Kocarev.
- SenseCityVity: Mobile Crowdsourcing, Urban Awareness, and Collective Action in Mexico,
- Salvador Ruiz-Correa, Darshan Santani, Beatriz Ramírez-Salazar, Itzia Ruiz-Correa, Fátima Alba Rendón-Huerta, Carlo Olmos-Carrillo, Brisa Carmina Sandoval-Mexicano, Ángel Humberto Arcos-García, Rogelio Hasimoto-Beltrán and Daniel Gatica-Perez.
- Beyond Data in the Smart City: Repurposing Existing Campus IoT.
- Oliver Bates and Adrian Friday.
- Agile Environmental Monitoring Exploits Rapid Prototyping and In Situ Adaptation.
- Yasue Kishino, Yutaka Yanagisawa, Yoshinari Shirai, Shin Mizutani, Takayuki Suyama and Futoshi Naya.
- Interview:
- Bridging the Adoption Gap for Smart City Technologies.
- An Interview with Rob Kitchin by Katja Schechtner.
- Research Spotlight:
- What Can We Learn from Smart Urban Mobility Technologies?
- Barbara Lenz and Dirk Heinrichs.
We hope you enjoy them. Thank you for the authors who submitted papers, the reviewers, Rob Kitchen for giving an interview and Barbara Lenz and Dirk Heinrichs for discussing their research. Lastly, we would also like to thank the IEEE Pervasive Computing team for ensuring that the special issue came to fruition.
Full Reference to the Introduction:
Crooks, A.T., Schechtner, K., Day, A.K and Hudson-Smith, A (2017), Creating Smart Buildings and Cities, IEEE Pervasive Computing, 16 (2): 23-25. (pdf)
Smart Cities in IEEE Pervasive Computing
We are excited to announce that the special issue that we organized for IEEE Pervasive Computing is now out. In the special issue entitled “Smart Cities” and demonstrates the state of the art of pervasive computing technologies that collect, monitor, and analyze various aspects of urban life. The articles and departments in the special issue highlight the coming revolution in urban data via some of the different approaches researchers are taking to build tools and applications to better inform decision making (to reduce energy consumption or improve visitor flows, for example). Such research will be critical to setting goals for sustainable urban development within different global contexts. We need to better understand cities and their underlying systems if we want to improve the quality of urban life. To this end, in the special issue we have an introduction (editorial) followed by a number of articles, an interview and a research spotlight:
- Guest Editors’ Introduction:
- Creating Smart Buildings and Cities
- Andrew Crooks, Katja Schechtner, Anind K. Dey and Andrew Hudson-Smith.
- Articles:
- Noninvasive Bluetooth Monitoring of Visitors’ Length of Stay at the Louvre.
- Yuji Yoshimura, Anne Krebs and Carlo Ratti.
- ISO-Standardized Smart City Platform Architecture and Dashboard.
- Vladimir Zdraveski, Kostadin Mishev, Dimitar Trajanov and Ljupco Kocarev.
- SenseCityVity: Mobile Crowdsourcing, Urban Awareness, and Collective Action in Mexico,
- Salvador Ruiz-Correa, Darshan Santani, Beatriz Ramírez-Salazar, Itzia Ruiz-Correa, Fátima Alba Rendón-Huerta, Carlo Olmos-Carrillo, Brisa Carmina Sandoval-Mexicano, Ángel Humberto Arcos-García, Rogelio Hasimoto-Beltrán and Daniel Gatica-Perez.
- Beyond Data in the Smart City: Repurposing Existing Campus IoT.
- Oliver Bates and Adrian Friday.
- Agile Environmental Monitoring Exploits Rapid Prototyping and In Situ Adaptation.
- Yasue Kishino, Yutaka Yanagisawa, Yoshinari Shirai, Shin Mizutani, Takayuki Suyama and Futoshi Naya.
- Interview:
- Bridging the Adoption Gap for Smart City Technologies.
- An Interview with Rob Kitchin by Katja Schechtner.
- Research Spotlight:
- What Can We Learn from Smart Urban Mobility Technologies?
- Barbara Lenz and Dirk Heinrichs.
We hope you enjoy them. Thank you for the authors who submitted papers, the reviewers, Rob Kitchen for giving an interview and Barbara Lenz and Dirk Heinrichs for discussing their research. Lastly, we would also like to thank the IEEE Pervasive Computing team for ensuring that the special issue came to fruition.
Full Reference to the Introduction:
Crooks, A.T., Schechtner, K., Day, A.K and Hudson-Smith, A (2017), Creating Smart Buildings and Cities, IEEE Pervasive Computing, 16 (2): 23-25. (pdf)
Linking a 1940′s Radio to the Internet of Things
In the corner of our apartment we have an old 1940′s radio, picked up a few years ago the original valves had already been removed, leaving it modified with a then transistor radio. As such it made the perfect project to remodify and bring up to date via a mix…
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Continue reading » Linking a 1940’s Radio to the Internet of Things
In the corner of our apartment we have an old 1940’s radio, picked up a few years ago the original valves had already been removed,…
Continue reading »IFTTT, Netatmo & Philips Hue: Linking Data to Lighting
Here at The Bartlett Centre for Advanced Spatial Analysis we run a simple dashboard view of the weather in London. The background of the dashboard changes colour to a variety of pantone shades according to temperature. Via our CEDE project we are starting to experiment with the Philips Hue Wifi Lighting System. With the ability to…
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Continue reading » QRCodes, Sociable Objects & RFID – The Oxfam Curiosity Shop in Selfridges
Tales of Things is all about memories, the stories we attach to objects as we move through life. As such we are very pleased to announce our latest partnership with Oxfam for their Curiosity Shop in Selfridges, London. The Curiosity Shop is open until …
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