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ENV-e-CITY A short presentation

ENV-e-CITY A short presentation. www.env-e-city.org Nicolas Moussiopoulos Aristotle University Thessaloniki, Greece. ENV-e-CITY background. Compliance of city authorities with EU environmental legislation

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ENV-e-CITY A short presentation

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  1. ENV-e-CITY A short presentation www.env-e-city.org Nicolas Moussiopoulos Aristotle University Thessaloniki, Greece

  2. ENV-e-CITY background • Compliance of city authorities with EU environmental legislation • Need for efficient environmental assessments; these are only possible on the basis of sufficient and reliable environmental information. • Need to inform the citizen on the state of the environment • Support of environmental professionals, e.g. those involved in impact assessment studies

  3. ENV-e-CITY project goals • Ultimate goal of project: • To create an internet-based brokerage infrastructure for public sector environmental information, available as a “turn-key” application via docking. • Relationship to other projects: • Innovative project acting as an extension of existing, “information production” projects (APNEE, IRENIE, AIR-EIA, APPETISE, etc.)

  4. The ENV-e-CITY consortium

  5. InternetAccess Added Value Services Added Value Services Basic Services Basic Services Basic Services Common Meta Model Export Import Data Sources System architecture

  6. Thematic areas • Emissions • Air quality • Meteorology • Topography Overall scientific background: the SATURN project, the “urban” subproject of EUREKA/EUROTRAC-2 (http://lhtee.meng.auth.gr/saturn)

  7. SATURN: Studying atmospheric pollution in urban areas Objective: To substantially improve our ability of establishing source-receptor relationships at the urban scale.

  8. Topography • Data exploring “web-worms” • Digital Elevation Maps • On-line available info (Land use + Topography) (http://edcdaac.usgs.gov/glcc/globdoc1_2.html) • Topography data on demand

  9. Emissions • Data exchange Module for Emissions • City Emissions Estimator • using fuel consumption data, • based on traffic data, • overall vehicle usage, • analytical traffic network estimation.

  10. Meteorology • Easy meteorological assessment • Pre-processors • Data selection wizard • Personalized weather info • EIA studies • Suggest tools • Provide links • Support on-line submission of data and retrieval of results

  11. Air quality • Easy air quality assessment • Gaussian models (from emissions to AQ) • Model selection via MDS • Data requirements list based on assessment needs • Assessment method suggestion (on-line expert system) • Personalized Air Quality Indicators • EIA studies • Suggest tools • Provide links • Support on-line submission of data and retrieval of results

  12. Technology • System architecture • Some component examples • Web-based application examples • WebGIS example

  13. InternetAccess Added Value Services Added Value Services Basic Services Basic Services Basic Services Common Meta Model Export Import Data Sources System architecture

  14. Internet Access Administration & Service Interfaces Added Value Services Basic Services Export Import Admin Common Service & Data Model Base ENV-e-CITY Base Service & Data Provider Components

  15. WebGIS example

  16. € € Business model draft User/Customer User/Customer User/Customer User/Customer User/Customer User/Customer Price of Service & Data Service Portfolio ENV-e-CITY Broker System Broker Operator & Hosting Price Price of Service & Data License Price ENV-e-CITY Data & Service Provider ENV-e-CITY Data & Service Provider ENV-e-CITY Data & Service Provider ENV-e-CITY Data & Service Provider

  17. Competitive analysis • Competitors • City and national authorities, but will become users and providers! • Strengths • Long IT experience in relevant projects and unique scientific skills in consortium • Weaknesses • Innovation vs. pragmatism: how to overcome the momentum of a “sleeping market?”

  18. Exploitation aspects • Involvement of major “clients” from the beginning of the project: • EEA’s Topic Centre on Air and Climate Change • Eurocities • EIA community  high viability potential after the project end. • Leading institutions with strong academic background, AND very strong commercial contacts via the consortium. • ENV-e-CITY partners already provide commercially exploited products.

  19. Self standing viability • ENV-e-CITY to become the core for a European Centre of excellence for the Urban Environment. • E-content & environmental information is a promising business opportunity. • Evidence regarding the viability of the idea: Environmental information are among the top of P.S.I. data costs in Europe and U.S., and can easily be combined with brokerage architectures. • ENV-e-CITY is an immaterialisation project, taking advantage of current trends regarding the sustainable information society (http://aix.meng.auth.gr/eurosustain/) .

  20. Project co-ordinator

  21. Partner: ESS

  22. Partner: FAW

  23. Partner: FMI

  24. Partner: IER

  25. Partner: LOH

  26. Partner: NILU

  27. Partner: NORGIT

  28. Partner: RIVM

  29. Partner: TNO

  30. Broker architecture (draft) 1/2 • Meta model of data and services • formats, reference/call, semantics, prising scheme, access type... • Docking station for services • basic services: no or low costs • added value services: prised services • hosting and operating costs of broker • service and provider fees • service chains for combined services • requires detailed interface specification

  31. Broker architecture (draft) 2/2 • Type of services • request for (pre-generated) data • images, animations, maps, tables, infos, etc. • request for individual services • call of specific function (online or by order, result returned by email, ftp,...) • chaining of services • if possible: service and data providers maintain their own data and service store • depends on execution time, Internet bandwidth and local resources

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