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THE PERIPHRIA

MANIFESTOPERIPHRIA aims to deploy convergent FutureInternet platforms and innovative services forthe promotion of sustainable lifestyles andworkstyles in and across emergent networks ofsmart peripheral cities in Europe. A 30-monthPilot B action funded by the EuropeanCommission under the CIP ICT PSP Programme,PERIPHRIA is carried out by a projectconsortium led by Alfamicro (PT) and made up of

12 partners from 5 EU Member States. The 5Pilot City Partners together with 7 additionalSponsoring Cities form the core of thePERIPHRIA Smart City Network. For its thematicorientation and the methods and tools used,PERIPHRIA participates in both the CIP SmartCities Project Portfolio and the European Internetof Things Research Cluster, with the specificmandate of showcasing the benefits of Internet-of-Things type of technologies in services of highsocietal value.

TRANSFORMING GOVERNMENTEXPERIENCE

Over the past 30 years, European Cities haveexperienced a widespread movement towardsmodernisation of public service delivery, in orderto improve efficiency, effectiveness and value forcitizens. ICTs have played a central role in thistransformation, under the universallyacknowledged assumption that decentralisationand power devolution is the best way to locate

public service delivery closest to the ultimatebeneficiary be it household, business, or third

sector association.

Modernisation programs in EU publicadministrations can be seen to develop throughphases of maturity, three in particular going far

beyond mere back and front office automation:

MULTICHANNEL PROVISION orCitizen centric service delivery,underlining the fact that government hasto transform itself to serve the needs ofconstituents, and not vice versa.

SEAMLESS SERVICE DELIVERY,

aiming to overcome the fragmentation ofpublic agencies through ICT integration:One Stop Shops, Life Events paradigm,Cross-Border interoperability, etc.

SERVICE CO-PRODUCTION BY ANDWITH CITIZENS, leveraging ICTenabled engagement Web 2.0,prosumption etc. to address thecost/benefit dilemma in an innovativeway.

THE PERIPHRIA FUTURE INTERNETVISION

In this scenario, the parallel evolution known asthe Future Internet (FI) offers unprecedented anduntil now largely unrevealed opportunities.

PERIPHRIA views the FI as the interaction ofINTERNET OF THINGS (IoT), INTERNET OFSERVICES (IoS) and INTERNET OF PEOPLE(IoP). We posit that through the convergence ofsocio-technical elements belonging to these

three infrastructures, environments andarchitectures, it will be possible to leverage thetransformational capacity of the (peripheral)Cities of Europe in terms of the urban structures,lifestyles, and workstyles required to reach moreambitious targets of economic, social,

environmental and cultural sustainability.

Central to this innovation is the concept ofcommunity interaction of People in Places.PERIPHRIA locates this interaction in fiveARENAS

archetypical urban settings with well-defined social features and technologicalrequirements which become the settings whereco-design and integration of public servicesunfold. To each Arena, an identified City partner


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is associated:

SMART NEIGHBOURHOOD wheremedia-based social interaction occurs(Malm, SE)

SMART STREET where new mobilitybehaviours develop (Bremen, DE)

SMART SQUARE where participatory

civic decisions are taken (Athens, GR)

SMART MUSEUM AND PARKwherenatural and cultural heritage feedlearning (Genoa, IT)

SMART CITY HALL where mobile e-government services are delivered(Palmela, PT)

Serious Games and e-participation constitute thevehicles for co-creation of innovative publicservices, thus shaping a vision of a FUTUREINTERNET BY AND FOR THE PEOPLE. Thisvision activates open innovation to make theurban dimension come to life, in a NEW SOCIO-URBAN DYNAMICS that drives governmenttransformation, collective creativity, andplatform convergence.

TECHNOLOGIES AND SERVICES

PERIPHRIA implements a trans-European OPENSERVICE CONVERGENCE PLATFORM

(OSCP) for the provision of Internet and FI-enabled services in and across networks ofSmart Peripheral Cities. The OSCP extends andenhances the SAVE ENERGY Social InformationArchitecture,1integrating key new components sensor networks, real time 3D and mobilelocation-based services from previous researchinitiatives, emerging devices and platforms, andad hoc mash-ups designed and implemented onthe spot.

User-generated content is spontaneouslygenerated by community interaction, whichoccurs at the run-time moments in which

1CIP ICT PSP project 238882http://www.ict4saveenergy.eu

infrastructures and services are dynamicallydiscovered, invoked and composed.

Behavioural transformation towards sustainablelifestyles emerges through replicable, scalableand transferable patterns of personal andcollective innovation (called BEHAVLETS)occurring within specific, elementary units of FI-powered city space (called URBLETS).Behavlets and Urblets are thus the main impactdrivers of change, which will be identified,described and classified during the project in theperspective of future business exploitation.

PERIPHRIAs big challenge is thus to find newways of embedding Future Internet technology inurban life to bring about more dialogue,communication, innovation, businessopportunities, and sustainable options. ThePERIPHRIA pilots constitute alternatives that

encourage diversity and an educated andresponsible citizenry, providing them theknowledge and artefacts to leverage territorialassets and build culturally specific solutions. Thiswill help designers, architects and policy makersdeploy the Future Internet to address key issuesof sustainable urban development.

THE PERIPHRIA OBSERVATORY

A Smart City Network will be created withinPERIPHRIA, open to non-partner cities and

supported by an inter-disciplinary Observatorywhose main goal is to capture the territorialdimension of urban innovation processes: theiremergence, dynamics, mechanisms, andevolution. The Observatory thus analyses theterritorial and socio-economic effects of FutureInternet driven Living Lab activities, developingan observational framework to captureinnovative fluxes and trajectories, recogniseopportunities for effective networking, andsupport self-acknowledgment of territorial

potentials by Smart City stakeholders andcommunities.

At a broader level, the Observatory aims tocapture the potential of EU peripheries as lieuxde ressources human, technical and economic for Future Internet driven socio-digitalterritorial innovation, enhancing the networkingcapacity of people in places. It will be a lensthrough which the networking tension withinand between peripheral cities will be analyzed asa territorial effect of the pilots smart

infrastructures.

As such, the PERIPHRIA Observatory proposesitself as a key service to the cross-project CIPSmart Cities Portfolio, in a collaborative learning


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perspective.

THE PERIPHRIA PARTNERSHIP

Project Coordination

ALFAMICRO Sistema de ComputadoresLda (PT)

Mr. lvaro Duarte de Oliveira,

[email protected]

Mr. Jean Barroca,[email protected]

Mr. Jesse Marsh, [email protected]

Project Partners

TXT eSolutions Spa (IT)

Karlsruher Institut fr Technologie (DE)

Intelligent Sensing Anywhere SA (PT)

Archeometra Srl (IT)

Athens Technology Center SA (GR)

Politecnico di Milano (IT)

Malm Hgskola Malm (SE)

BREPARK GmbH Bremen (DE)

DAEM SA Athens (GR)

Comune di Genova Genoa (IT)

Municipio Palmela Palmela (PT)

Sponsoring Cities

Budapest (HU), La-Fert-Sous-Jouarre(FR), Larnaca (CY), Malaga (ES),Malta(MT), Palermo (IT), Rio de Janeiro (BR)

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