• Innovation for Urban Quality of Life

London living labInnovation for Urban Quality of Life

Sarah Gallacher, Research Scientist IoT, Intel Labs Europe www.cities.io

London living lab

Research Themes

Billion Device Challenge

Citizen Engagement

Creating Sustainable Ecosystems

Currently 9 different projects across these themes

Energy Neutral microclimate Sensing Adaptive radios Sensing networks & LoRa

Environment Sensing Sentiment analysis

Making sense of data with citizens Physical information networks

biodiversity monitoring

Citizen health & wellbeing

Energy Neutral microclimate Sensing Adaptive radios sensing networks & LoRa

environment Sensing Sentiment analysis

Making sense of data with citizens Physical information networks

biodiversity monitoring

Citizen health & wellbeing

City insights

Citizen Health & Wellbeing

An Olympic Legacy“The most enduring legacy of the Olympics will be the regeneration of an entire community for the direct benefit of everyone who lives there”

How do the park currently ta lk about health? The overwhelming message was about physical health and exercise

What is health?Health is a broad and diverse topic –how can urban spaces help encourage people to act in healthier ways to boost not only physical but mental and social health

Types of research: Diary study

Diary Study

Local residents report their healthy behaviour in the area over 10 consecutive days in an online diary

Header

Vox Pop Interviews

Patients, staff and local residents from the Bromley By Bow Centre to reach more diverse participants

1. Accessing and getting around the QEOP can be confusing and difficult

Part ic ipant ObservationObserving how people currently use the park and testing user journeys ourselves

Park People

Identi fy ing Chal lenges

How can we help solve these challenges to encourage healthy behaviour in the park?

A tailored digital social feed for local residents over the age of 50 who may be suffering from social isolation.

Motivating residents to be more active by rewarding healthy activity with points that gain you vouchers for high street brands or charitable donations.

A digital platform that provides users with the ability to find and book sporting activities combined with a social feed that enables people to interact with each other and find new partners to play with.

A real time digital map that provides a platform to create user-friendly maps that will help improve mapping and data visualisation across the park.

Open Cal l & ImplementationEngaging SMEs to solve these challenges

Learnings

Health means different things to different people

Finding the right people to talk to in diverse communities isn’t easy

Doing research online can be a barrier for some people

“and now for something completely different…”

• Innovation for Urban Quality of Life

Nature-smart citiesBiodiversity Monitoring

www.batslive.wordpress.com

A network of 15 bat devices will be deployed in the Queen

Elizabeth Olympic Park by summer 2017

150 roosting boxes

exist in the QEOP,

typically under the

many park bridges

Wetlands habitats,

cluttered and

uncluttered

environments

Why?

Soprano Pipistrelle Leisler

Soprano pipistrelle…………10%Leisleri..…………………………….60%Noctula.…………………………….30%

Results

CNNDeep Learning

Construction

Events

Lighting

In Summary

• City Insights• Nature-Smart Cities

• Innovation for Urban Quality of Life

Thanks

www.cities.io

www.sarahgallacher.com

www.batslive.wordpress.com