Session 4 – Smart Cities
Session 4 – Smart Cities
CityLab : An ICT Lab on Smarter Cities Emphasizing Social Sustainability
Valérie Issarny, Inria Paris Rocquencourt – équipe de recherche ARLES.
Smart cities are fascinating systems of systems whose component systems and their integration greatly challenge current ICT
due to the key characteristics of connected cities and especially their scale. Moreover, the vision of what smart cities should be
about is evolving at a fast pace in close concert with the latest technology trends. It is in particular worth highlighting how mobile
and social Internet use have reignited citizen engagement, thereby opening new perspectives for smart cities beyond data
analytics that have been initially one of the core foci for smart cities technologies. Similarly, open data programs foster the
engagement of citizens in the process of government and overall contribute to make our cities more sustainable. However, while
environmental and economical sustainability have been on the ICT research agenda for some time, there is another, equally
important, form of sustainability that has so far been overlooked for smart cities, that is, social sustainability. Indeed, cities are
first and foremost places for people, and thus building cohesive, inclusive and flourishing communities should be at the forefront
of our research agenda.
In the above context, the Inria Project Lab (IPL) CityLab@Inria that is under creation aims at studying ICT solutions toward smart
cities that promote both social and environmental sustainability. A strong emphasis of the Lab is on the undertaking of a multi-
disciplinary research program through the integration of relevant scientific and technology studies, from sensing up to analytics
and advanced applications, so as to actually enact the foreseen smart city Systems of Systems. Obviously, running experiments
is a central concern of the Lab, so that we are able to confront proposed approaches to actual settings. In this talk, I will briefly
introduce the smart city vision that the Lab intends to promote as well as survey the related challenges being investigated by
CityLab researchers.
Bio :
Valérie Issarny holds a Directrice de recherche position at Inria since 2001, where she has been leading the ARLES research
team from 2002 to 2013, investigating distributed software systems leveraging wirelessly networked devices, with a special
emphasis on service-oriented computing. Valérie in particular studies middleware solutions easing the development of
distributed collaborative services, including mobile services deployed over smartphones and interacting with sensors and
actuators. Valérie is regular program committee member of leading international conferences in software engineering and in
middleware. In 2013, she received one of the 12 Etoiles de l’Europe, awarded by the French Ministry of Research in recognition
of her coordination of the FP7 ICT FET IP CONNECT project on emergent middleware (2009-13). Valérie is also co-founder of
the Ambientic start up that develops innovative mobile collaborative applications based on its iBICCOP middleware for
heterogeneous mobile platforms£ Ambientic was created in 2011 and awarded the National Competition for Innovative
Technology Companies in 2009 (Emergence) and 2010 (Création).
Valérie is currently visiting researcher at UC Berkeley within PATH and hosted by CITRIS, where she develops research
collaboration with Californian partners in the smart city area. At Berkeley, Valérie is in particular investigating distributed
software systems oriented toward smarter cities that are both environmentally and socially sustainable. She in particular studies
solutions leveraging the Internet of Things, fixed and mobile, so as to gather accurate knowledge about the physical and social
context and act upon the city accordingly. Last but not least, Valérie is the current scientific manager of the Inria@SiliconValley
program (https://project.inria.fr/inria-siliconvalley/) that aims at strengthening research collaborations between Inria and
Californian Universities at large.
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Les réseaux capillaires au cœur des villes intelligentes
Hervé Rivano, Inria Grenoble – Rhône-Alpes – équipe de recherche URBANET.
Résumé :
Si la définition d’une « ville intelligente » est parfois floue, une constante est qu’elle se fonde sur une « ville numérique », c’est à
dire sur des mesures et interactions fines et massives avec l’environnement, les services et les citoyens. Cela implique la
double nécessité d’un déploiement massif d’objets communicants fixes (capteurs, actionneurs . . .) et d’une densification de
terminaux mobiles (smartphones, véhicules intelligents, . . .). La multiplication des applications « smart cities » nécessite
d’envisager des modes de collectes et de diffusion des données différents des solutions actuelles, au bord de la saturation.
Nous présentons les architecture de réseaux radio dits capillaires et les enjeux de leur déploiement en milieu urbain face aux
exigences sociétales, en particulier en termes de consommation énergétique et de capacité de transport.
Bio :
Hervé Rivano est Chargé de Recherche Inria après avoir été Chargé de Recherche CNRS de 2004 à 2010. Il dirige l’équipe
UrbaNet qui s’intéresse aux réseaux radio urbains. Il travaille sur les méthodes d’optimisation et la modélisation des réseaux
cellulaires et multi-saut.
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Une approche macroscopique à la modélisation et à la gestion du trafic
Paola Goatin, Inria Sophia Antipolis – Méditerranée – équipe de recherche OPALE.
Résumé :
Macroscopic traffic flow models derived from fluid dynamics are very popular nowadays both for vehicular and pedestrian flows.
They offer a sound mathematical basis relying on well posedness results for hyperbolic non-linear conservation laws, as well as
fast and efficient numerical tools consisting of finite volume schemes. I will present some recent results obtained in the
framework of the ERC Starting Grant TRAM3
Bio :
Paola Goatin holds a PhD in Functional Analysis from the International School for Advanced Studies in Trieste (Italy), and a
Habilitation (HDR) in Mathematics from Toulon University (France). She has been assistant professor at Toulon University, before
joining INRIA as a research scientist in 2010. Her research activity focuses mainly on the analysis and numerical approximation
of systems of partial differential equations of hyperbolic type. Targeted applications include traffic flow modeling and
management. In particular, she currently holds an ERC Starting Grant for the project “Traffic Management by Macroscopic
Models – TRAM3?.
Paola Goatin a obtenu le diplôme de Docteur en Mathématiques de l’Ecole Internationale d’Etudes Supérieures Avancées de
Trieste (Italie), et le diplôme d’Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches de l’Université du Sud Toulon – Var. Elle a été Maître de
Conférences à l’Université de Toulon avant de rejoindre Inria en tant que Chargée de Recherche en 2010. Son activité de
recherche se concentre principalement sur l’analyse et l’approximation numérique des systèmes d’équations aux dérivées
partielles de type hyperbolique. Les applications considérées comprennent la modélisation et la gestion du trafic routier. En
particulier, elle dirige actuellement le projet ERC Starting Grant ”Traffic Management by Macroscopic Models – TRAM3?.
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De la recherche au marché : le point de vue pragmatique d’une startup
Guillaume Chelius, PDG et co-fondateur de HIKOB.
Résumé :
Après une thèse axée sur les réseaux radio multi sauts soutenue en 2004 au laboratoire CITI de l’INSA de Lyon, Guillaume
Chelius est recruté par l’Inria comme chargé de recherche dans l’équipe-projet ARES. Entre 2004 et 2006, il effectue divers
séjours comme chercheur invité, au sein du laboratoire LIP6 (Université Paris 6, France), du département Infres de Telecom
ParisTech (France), du LNCC (Brésil) et du CTTC (Espagne). Il rejoint le laboratoire LIP de l’ENS Lyon et l’équipe DNET en
2010 afin de travailler dans le domaine des réseaux de capteurs large-échelles et des graphes d’interaction qu’ils induisent. En
juillet 2011, il co-fonde et prend la direction de la société HIKOB donc l’activité est la conception de systèmes d’acquisition
sans-fil multi-points et autonomes pour la captation de données stratégiques sur le terrain est au cœur des infrastructures. Les
systèmes HIKOB sont au cœur d’applications stratégiques dans les Industries du suivi d’intégrité d’ouvrages, de la ville et des
systèmes de transports intelligents, de la défense et sécurité, du sport et des médias.