a mobile crowdsourcing platform for urban infrastructure maintenance

Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

A Mobile Crowdsourcing Platform for Urban Infrastructure Maintenance

José Pablo Gómez Barrón S., Miguel A. Manso Callejo, Ramón Alcarria Garrido, Rufino Pérez Gómez

July 2nd - July 4th, 2014 Birmingham City University

Birmingham, UK


Roadmap

• Concept of crowdsourcing • Scenario • Platform design • Mobile data hub platform

implementation • Architecture • Data modeling • Data flow

• Conclusions


Concept

•  The term “crowdsourcing” introduced by Howe is a modern model for problem solving, and in different topics related to geo-information management, is an efficient tool for data acquisition and analysis

• Crowdsourcing models are based on the

use of perceptual and cognitive abilities of a large group of individuals to obtain faster and efficient solutions


Crowdsourcing

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Scenario:

•  Increasing number of citizens connected to Internet via wireless devices like smartphones, interested to discuss, identify and report local problems.

•  Access of mobile sensors, facilitates data collection, communication between systems.

•  Use of open-source platforms and technologies for reporting common street problems.

•  Exchange of information between citizens and urban infrastructure smart objects, monitor via crowdsourcing approach.


Platform Design:

Platform modules


_Architecture

Application layering

Platform Implementation:


_Data modeling

Platform Implementation:

UML diagram for “Urban SmartObjects”


_Data flow Platform Implementation:


Conclusions:

• Crowdsourcing is useful for creating data about the physical world, through the use of smartphones and on-board sensors (GPS, NFC) and capabilities (Internet, audio, video, etc.)

•  Permits to acquire and share local knowledge from people, improves and facilitates collaboration in a citizen urban observatory platform.

•  Shows the use of readable NFC tags to access a web mobile platform to process data from urban static objects and report problems to local government.


Conclusions:

•  Shows how to integrate geo-located general reports, events and social media feeds, enabling greater connectivity and communication among citizens and authorities.

•  Data as input layers to GIS analysis: • Report tracking on the map and over time, by

using database historic reports. •  Logistic planning in civil engineering

departments. •  Statistics per geographic area units, graphs

visualization and tweet classification clustering for data mining.


José Pablo Gómez Barrón Sierra E: [email protected], [email protected]

t : @jpablogomezb T: +34 651024537


Platform implementation:

Forms used to manage “Urban SmartObjects”

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Mobile data hub platform implementation:

“Home” section

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“Talk” section

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“Map” section

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New reports

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Link to “Urban SmartObjects” function

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