UrbanMind

Basic Pilot Info:

Involved Cities: Kranj, Pula
Consortium members: City of Kranj, City of Pula, Riko, and 3FS




Duration: 01 November 2024 – 30 April 2026 (18 months)
Budget: €3 million
Domains: 

  • Predictive traffic management

  • Sustainable mobility planning

  • Large-scale micro-location weather monitoring

Motivation:

The Pametna Mlaka (Smart Swamp) emerging data space has been recognised as one of the European Commission's top four best practices in smart city initiatives. Its success was presented by Mayor Matjaž Rakovec at the Mayors' Forum in Switzerland.

The goal of this pilot is to expand Pametna Mlaka into a fully operational and scalable data space.

Use Case Description:

Micro-Location Environmental Monitoring: Deploying sensors on buses or other mobile infrastructure for real-time environmental data collection.

Predictive Traffic Analytics: Enhancing traffic flow and sustainability in the city centers of Kranj and Pula.

Added Value:

Environmental:

  • Reduction of CO₂ emissions by 10-25%.

  • Reduction of traffic congestion by up to 30%.

  • Increase of resource productivity  by 15-25%.

Social:

  • Data integration into decision-making for urban planning and event management.

  • Supporting equitable and sustainable urban development.

Technical and Economic:

  • Streamlined data space implementation: Pula as a second pilot location to optimise integration costs.

  • Integrated developer platform: Open for external developers to create applications leveraging UrbanMind’s data infrastructure.

  • Compliance: Adheres to smart city reference architectures and Minimum Interoperability Mechanisms (MIMs Plus).

  • Scalability: Processes and pipelines ready for broader adoption and scale-up across other cities.