A fully digitized city is the essential component for the true smart city based on a community that releases information and uses data and services directly. Exprivia’s Digital City project stems from a concept of participatory democracy fostered by IT tools based on the experience developed in extremely complex private companies, which allow communication and active involvement of all users.
Multi-channel services for the community include major issues such as Open Government, inclusion of vulnerable groups, mobility and transport, health and assistance, tourism and culture. The fundamental guidelines are:
- Healthcare 2.0 (home care, bioinformatics, paperless procedures)
- Energy Optmization (Home Automation, Environmental Control, Smart Billing)
- Internet of Things (parking and occupancy detectors for disabled people, security sensors, smart watches and smartphones as communication tools)
- Mobile Assistant (e-government, e-commerce, tourism)
- Big Data (creation of the community of citizens, access, transparency)
- Mobile Ticketing (infomobility, integrated regional ticket, smart parking)
Healthcare
An important part of Exprivia’s design is intended for healthcare, where the presence of a digital infrastructure is essential for the activation of telemedicine, the continuous monitoring of chronic and elderly people, personalized medicine, and the elimination of bureaucracy linked to paper documents. For the digitization of local healthcare, Exprivia has developed several research projects and some pilot projects in hospitals, retirement homes and public administrations.
Mobile Ticketing
Infomobility is another important step in rethinking the issues of urban viability. The ease of immediate access to urban vehicles through the digital ticket even in mobile mode, the certainty of parking your vehicle in a certain area with the possibility of immediate verification, the traffic forecast for public transport, the guarantee of free parking space for the disabled, are elements that in a city of the immediate future will become the key to an increasingly streamlined road system, fast and cheap.
Exprivia pursues the objective of integrating Open Data of timetables, routes and traffic forecasts for public transport, integrated tickets between all local transport companies, Smart Parking with mobile ticketing and search for free spaces in parking facilities and stalls (Park&Ride, affiliated garages, blue stripes with detectors). The project naturally provides for the coexistence of the traditional ticket and high-security anti-counterfeiting issuance systems. The Mobile Ticketing project is part of the Puglia Digitale research project and the Bari Digitale pilot project.
Energy optimization
A smart life must optimize its energy efficiency. The EO chapter provides research and development on home automation for the continuous monitoring of energy efficiency in buildings, combined with home control systems for fragile people. In addition, billing systems have support for on-demand explanations on bills. A research project is underway on this issue with the National Energy Technology District (Di.T.N.E.) and pilot projects with ENEL.
Big Data
The storage, management and analysis of large-scale data are the structural basis for the activation of a digitized city. The Exprivia system, verified in thousands of installations at large private companies, makes the conversation between citizens and institutions simple and practicable both by direct query and through the forms of the community and social networks. The Vincente and Puglia@Service research projects and the @Politics pilot project are the demonstration of a growing attention to the opportunities of the PA.
Internet of Things
The great Net interprets everyday concreteness. This is the principle on which the Internet of Things is based, which can be translated into parking sensors under the road surface to signal the availability of a parking space or the occupation of a disabled space, or into energy efficiency and home security sensors, in health monitoring of chronically ill people or individuals at risk, terminals such as smartphones and smartwatches used as communication systems. Also in this case, Exprivia operates in research and is a protagonist in pilot projects such as BariDigitale and Building.
