Espoo's 3D City Model Hackathon
From 9th till 11th October 2015 the Energizing Urban Ecosystems[1] organized at the “Stage” in Aalto Design Factory, the first 3D City Model Hackathon of the city of Espoo focusing on how 3D City Models can serve as an innovation platform for Smart Cities.
Short video presentation of the whole event by
9th - 11th October 2015, Espoo, Finland http://3dcitymodelhackathon.com/
Live comments on the screen: http://presemo.aalto.fi/3dcityhack Facebook: 3D City Model Hackathon
The goal of the 3D City Model Hackathon was to create applications related to city planning, urban digitalization, living, traffic & transportation, energy and environment that utilizes the 3D City Model of Espoo and open data provided by the organizers. The open questions were:
How can the 3D City Model Serve as an Open Innovation Platform for Smart Cities?
How to Combine a 3D City Model with Real-time Energy, Traffic, or Mobile Phone Data?
How can 3D Gaming Technologies Utilize 3D City Models and Data from the Databases of the City?
How a 3D city model and Open Data are utilized to support University Campus and Otaniemi area restaurants, cafés, events, and facility management?
How can the Internet of Things Benefit from 3D City Model?
How to utilize Open Data and Open Interfaces In 3D City Models?
Fig. 1 The main stage of the event. Photo by Aibéo
The Hackathon offered a series of presentations from several companies, Institutions and Individuals who also mentored the participants during the three days. In-between, there was time for discussions, team building and to work. The participants had to apply for the hackathon via an online form and preference was given to software developers, designers and urban innovators with a desire to provide new services and applications to improve the living in the so strongly branded Smart Cities.
A series of APIs, software and 3D models were offered to the participants to hack upon. At the end, a total of 9 teams from over 70 participants came out with different proposals. These were offered several prizes for their work according to different categories.
The event was moderated by Pedro Aibéo who also belonged to the organizing team composed of himself, Jussi Lehtinen from Espoo City and Oskari Liukkonen from the company Sito.
The event was a collaboration between the Espoo City, Aalto University, Sito, Elisa, IBM, Slush, Futurice, Colossal Order, Unity, Tietoa, Fira, Virtual City Systems, AEC Hackathon Helsinki, Helsinki City, Gispo, Architectural Democracy, VTT (Technical Research Centre of Finland) and Kone
Fig. 2 The participant's tags. Photo by Viitanen Maria
