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
Event's schedule
Friday, October 9th 16:00 Registration, snacks and coffee and Kick off 16:30 Welcoming Speeches 16:30 Tuula Antola, Director of Economic and Business Development, Espoo 16:40 Jarmo Suomisto, 3D City Model Project Manager, Helsinki 16:50 Satu Kankaala, Aalto University Campus & Real Estate 17:00 Speed networking and grouping 17:30 Company presentations 17:30 Futurice 17:40 Elisa 17:50 Fira 18:00 IBM 18:10 Kone 18:30 Grouping continues (if needed) 20:00 Dinner
Saturday, October 10th 09:00 Kick off with breakfast 09:30 Company presentations 09:30 Tietoa 09:40 Virtual City Systems 09:50 Pekka Sarkola, Gispo 10:00 Janne Porkka, VTT 12:00 Lunch 13:00 Company presentations 13:00 Sito – 3D City Models & Unity 13:10 Pedro Aibéo – Architectural Democracy 17:00 Snack 20:00 Dinner
Sunday, October 11th 09:00 Kick off with breakfast 12:00 Lunch 14:00 Presentations 16:00 Discussion & Awards 17:00 THE END
GUEST SPEAKERS
The organizing team’s criteria for the invited speakers was to have both back-end and user interface experts coming from private companies, research institutions and governance.
1st Speaker:
Tuula Antola
Director of Economic and Business Development
City of Espoo.
Fig. 3 Tuula Antola at the Hackatthon : Snapshot from the video streaming
”Please help provide us with some good ideas. If they will be good, maybe we will implement them. But if they will be something superb, definitely we will implement them”
2nd Speaker:
Jarmo Suomisto
3D City Model Project Manager
City of Helsinki
„People who are making 3D city models, 3D semantic models in Finland it’s such a small group, it’s like a family it’s like a thing we had in the 90s when we were doing GIS work or CAD (...) We have few people here in Finland so if we do it separately the same things it doesn’t work at all.”
3rd Speaker:
Satu Kankaala
Aalto University Campus & Real Estate
ACRE
"The goal is for Otaniemi is to be energy self-sufficient"
4th Speaker:
Paul Houghton
Director, Wizardry and Development
Futurice
„What we are talking about for openness is that businesses and the city and users can put their data together so that you have very low friction among them for adding a new service"
Fig. 4 Paul Houghton's presentation. Photo by Aibéo
5th Speaker:
Aimo Maanavilja & Jyri Kosonen
Elisa
"About our Elisa Hackathon challenge for you: How to engage citizens to participate in city development?"
6th Speaker:
Mikael Långström
Fira
A construction company building in Jatkäsäri in August 2016. Mikael offers a set of data that might inspire some of the „Hackers“: „We have temperature data of all the individual apartments in that data model, that’s about it. We hope you can use this information somehow and let’s see what you guys come up with.“
7th Speaker:
Arto Ahde
IBM
Against the usual believe that big companies move slowly, IBM is putting up digital platforms such as the Bluemix: „What I am presenting today is the IBM Bluemix, which is the platform as a service which is the offering that we have, and it is more than that, it is more like a digital innovation platform.“
8th Speaker:
Jaakko Hauro
Tietoa
„How 3D city models, how they’ve been before and become open and usable for general public.“
9th Speaker:
Lucas van Walstijn
Virtual City Systems
"We create high performance web visualization of city models"
10th Speaker:
Pekka Sarkola
Gispo
„You don’t want to limit your possibilities or your ways or ideas to go into the proprietary closed up source data, API’s Standards or whatever“
Fig. 5 Pekka Sarkola at the main stage. Photo by Viitanen Maria
11th Speaker:
Janne Porkka
VTT
"Less time for introduction, more discussion!"
12th Speaker:
Andrzej Skibiński
3D City Models & Unity
"Our user cases are, costum solutions, avatars, spatial engines"
13th Speaker:
Pedro Aibéo Architectural democracy
"Complexity, City, 3D Model, if we are to empower citizens to add information to it, we have to give away for them to understand it in a fast and easy way and to empower, to edit it, if they don’t understand it, they will never do it"
Fig. 6 Pedro Aibéo on the main stage. Snapshot of the live straming
FINAL PRESENTATIONS
Over 70 participants took part on the Hackathon. At the end we had 9 presentations of their joint work. These were given different prizes according to its scope.
Group 1:
ESTIA, SPIRIT OF OUR BUILDINGS
Fig. 7: Group 1. Photo by Viitanen Maria
Team members:
Taha Kachwala taha.kachwala@aalto.fi Full-stack developer
Thuy Nguyen thuy.4.nguyen@aalto.fi UX, Front-end developer
Cillian Warfield cillianwarfield@gmail.com Architectural concept
Janne Salo janne.h.salo@aalto.fi Architectural concept
Kiki Christaki kyriaki.christaki@aalto.fi Graphics designer
Maria Gaci maria.gaci@aalto.fi Graphics designer
Summary: Estia group developed a data-driven adaptive lighting and way finding system that promotes space sharing for energy saving and also allows the building to communicate with people through lighting and multiple devices.
They started this Hackathon by thinking about how buildings communicate with people. How can all the data of buildings such as heating, electricity usage, water usage, and occupancy be effectively communicated to the people who are using the building.
The whole concept was to avoid buildings wh