A world of data: start-up solutions making use of urban data

Urban data exponential growth, no matter how it is produced (automated or volunteered data by sensors, actuators, devices, etc.), represents an enormous potential in understanding how cities work. The current capacity of gathering, processing and analysing urban data produced and captured represent an opportunity to find hidden patterns, new correlations, new fields of public action, etc. Public and private actors, individuals, start-ups and organizations are seizing this opportunity by finding value in datasets (form ATM transactions to property registers, from census to CCTV cameras, from smart meters to traffic sensors, from mobile geo-localization to citizen science data, etc.). The session will illustrate how this urban data integration projects and platforms are being deployed and used in a number of cities, thanks to the work of entrepreneurs and start-ups reusing urban data to offer new solutions for inhabitants and public authorities.