Description
Module/Solution Overview
The City4Age shared repository is able to store big datasets captured from a variety of apps and infrastructures like sensors. The City4Age database schema incorporates the analysis of six City4Age Pilots with different needs and capacities. It stores a variety of data gathered from the indoor and outdoor activities of the elderly end-users with respect to their privacy and personal data protection. The solution contains the needed technical tools to encrypt/decrypt the most sensible data and contains a level-based permission system to avoid to regular users request certain data from the repository.
Innovation
The City4Age shared repository, incorporates the needs for data acquisition and data storage coming from six different pilots with a variety of systems’ and applications. The Database schema was designed taking into account geriatricians’, civic organisations’ and researchers’ needs. The City4Age shared repository was created in respect to National and European legislation for the personal data protection. The stored data can be semantized to give it the ability to be inferred by a rule engine-based reasoner and create semantic knowledge that can be consumed by potential third parties. In addition, the stored data can be extracted to discover citizen activities based on their daily life.
Business Impact
Organisations that are keeping people’ activities monitoring data can easily use the database schema of the shared City4Age Repository. They also can decide the level of abstraction of the shared data to the City4age Repository. The gathered data will be shared to third parties using the Linked Open Data paradigm to be a source of knowledge for future projects based on citizens’ ageing.
Interoperability
The database schema can be easily incorporated into a variety of apps and systems that are monitoring people’s daily activities. The database schema is open and can be easily expanded in order to store new datasets. The Shared City4Age repository communicates with the City4Age dashboard and the City4Age Pilots through RESTful APIs.
Stakeholders profile
Health and Sports related apps and organisations that they need to keep structured large sets of monitoring data. Researchers that need to study the impact of the elderly diseases over the time by studying their behaviour. Companies that need to develop new business solutions to improve the elderly life. Public administrations that wan to study the elderly needs to make improvements in the city infrastructure.
Competitors
Sports and human monitoring activities applications are using similar repositories for the data storage. Nevertheless, the City4Age database schema stores data from a variety of resources and can be easily expanded whenever is needed.
Future availability
The project is available on GitHub platform and the code is licensed under the GPL license. It can be obtained and modified to improve it, or it can be adapted to a new project scenario.
Contact info
UDeusto
Universidad de la Iglesia de Deusto
The University of Deusto, recently recognized as an International Excellence Campus, was founded in 1886 and comprises 6 Faculties: Psychology and Education, Human and Social Sciences, Engineering, Law, Business and Economic Sciences and Theology. The Deutotech - MORElab (http://www.morelab.deusto.es/) research group is one of the largest and most successful research groups in the University and belongs to the Internet unit within DeustoTech – Deusto Institute of Technology, affiliated to the Faculty of Engineering of the University of Deusto. The group has a strong background in the application of Artificial Intelligence techniques to middleware for embedded and mobile system in order to foster context-aware reactivity and activity modelling and reaction. In addition, the group is currently focusing its research on the area of Smart Cities by leveraging its expertise on Ubiquitous Computing, Linked Open Data management and recommendation and social data mining (Big Data Analytics) to extract structured data from social networks and thus enable urban apps and services assisting the daily activities of citizens or visitors.
