6th International Conference on
Smart Data and Smart Cities
September 15–17, 2021 · Stuttgart, Germany

General programme



Wednesday, 15

September

Slot 1
09:00 - 10:30

Remo Link


Technical Assistance

Tea Break ☕

Slot 2
11:00 - 12:30

Opening ceremony and Keynote
Room : Senatssaal
Remo Link

11:00 - 11:25

Welcome
Prof. Dr. Volker Coors (Chair - SDSC 2021 )
Prof. Dr. Katja Rade (President - HFT Stuttgart)
Prof. Robert Laurini (Vice President - UDMS)

11:30 - 12:30

Keynote
Andrea Halmos (European Commission, DG CONNECT)

Lunch Break 🍱

Slot 3

🅰

Room : Senatssaal | Remo Link

🅱

Room : 3/201

13:00 - 15:00

Session
Smart Data - Sensor

INSOURCE
(VisToolBox)

Tea Break ☕

Slot 4

🅰

Room : Senatssaal | Remo Link

🅱

Room : 3/201

15:30 - 17:00

Session
Smart City - 3D

INSOURCE
(lessons learnt & next steps)

17:30 - 19:30

Excursion & Social Event
(meeting point : HFT Stuttgart Main Entrance)



Thursday, 16

September

Slot 5
09:00 - 10:30

Keynote
Prof. Ursula Eicker (Concordia University, Next Generation Cities)

Room : Senatssaal
Remo Link

Tea Break ☕

Slot 6

🅰

Room : Senatssaal | Remo Link

🅱

Room : 3/201 | Remo Link

11:00 - 12:30

Session
Smart Data - Machine Learning

Session
Smart City - Navigation

Lunch Break 🍱 + (City Demonstrator) + (UDMS Board And National Representatives Meeting | Remo Link)

Slot 7

🅰

Room : Senatssaal | Remo Link

🅱

Room : 3/201 | Remo Link

14:00 - 15:00

Session
Smart People - Volunteered information

Session
Smart City - Environment

Tea Break ☕

Slot 8

🅰

Room : Senatssaal | Remo Link

🅱

Room : 3/201 | Remo Link

15:30 - 17:00

Session
Smart People - Environment

Session
Smart Visualization

18:30 - 23:00

Conference Dinner



Friday, 17

September

Slot 9
09:00 - 10:30

Session
Smart People - Health

Room : Senatssaal | Remo Link

Tea Break ☕

Slot 10
11:00 - 12:30

Session
Smart People - Citizen Engagement
and Closing Ceremony

Room : Senatssaal | Remo Link

Lunch Break 🍱

Keynotes


Andrea Halmos


Speaker: Andrea Halmos works at the European Commission, as Policy Officer in the ‘Technologies for Smart Communities’ Unit of DG CONNECT. Her current activities focus on helping cities and communities better harness data and Artificial Intelligence in order to meet their environmental and climate objectives, provide high quality services to citizens and businesses and make better-informed decisions. This includes work on a data space for climate-neutral and smart communities, supporting the implementation of AI-enabled, digital services and supporting cities to create their digital twins (Local Digital Twins). Previously, Andrea has worked on the implementation and networking of Digital Innovation Hubs as well as for over a decade in the area of digital government. Her main activities included the development and implementation of the eGovernment Action Plan 2016-2020, the promotion of open and modular digital government and supporting the implementation of digital government at local level. Prior to joining the European Commission in 2003, she worked for an internet start-up company as a consultant. Having graduated at the Budapest University of Economic Sciences, she received a master's degree in European studies from the College of Europe and from the Université libre de Bruxelles.


Prof. Ursula Eicker


Speaker: Prof. Ursula Eicker is the Canada Excellence Research Chair (CERC) in Smart, Sustainable and Resilient Cities and Communities at Concordia University Montréal. A German physicist, Eicker has held leadership positions at the Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences and its Centre for Sustainable Energy Technologies. She coordinated many international research projects in the fields of building energy efficiency, renewable energy systems and urban scale simulation. Since June 2019, she leads an ambitious research program to establish transformation strategies toward zero-carbon cities. Around 50 graduate students work on pathways to zero carbon cities in the domains of the built environment, renewable energy systems, sustainable transport and circular economy. An urban data analysis and modeling framework integrates the multidisciplinary work. The 7 year research program received 10 million CAD government funding and is supported by a further 10 million Dollars by Concordia University. In November 2020, Prof. Eicker founded Concordia’s Next Generation Cities Institute, which groups 14 university research centers and 200 researchers from all faculties. The Institute addresses the challenges of the urban transformation with a transdisciplinary approach and develops tools and strategies for a sustainable future. Prof. Eicker has published 7 Books, 24 book contributions, 89 Peer Reviewed Papers and 327 Conference Papers.



Session Details


Session : Smart Data - Sensor

Chair : Volker Coors

- SENSOR REGISTRY AS A BASE LAYER FOR SMART CITIES
M. van Andel, S. Bussemaker, M. Grus, and W. Florijn
Kadaster, Hofstraat 110, 7311 KZ Apeldoorn, the Netherlands

- SAFETY MONITORING BY MEANS OF SENSOR NETWORKS DISTRIBUTED WITHIN THE FOSSA SITE PLAN
E. Laurini1, M. Rotilio1, P. De Berardinis1, B. Tudini1, and V. Stornelli2
1DICEAA – Department of Civil, Construction-Architectural and Environmental Engineering, University of L'Aquila, Italy
2DIIIE – Department of Industrial and Information Engineering and Economics, University of L'Aquila, Italy

- A WEB APP TO GENERATE AND DISSEMINATE NEW KNOWLEDGE ON URBAN GREEN SPACE QUALITIES AND THEIR ACCESSIBILITY
R. Hecht1, M. Artmann1, P. Brzoska1, D. Burghardt2, S. Cakir1, A. Dunkel2, M. Gröbe2, M. Gugulica2, K. Krellenberg1,3, N. Kreutzarek4, S. Lautenbach5, C. Ludwig6, D. Lümkemann4, G. Meinel1, M. Schorcht1, A. Sonnenbichler4, C. Stanley1, J. Tenikl7, M. Wurm7, and A. Zipf5,6
1Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IOER), Dresden, Germany
2Institute of Cartography, Technische Universität Dresden, Dresden, Germany
3University of Vienna, Department of Geography and Regional Research, Vienna, Austria
4ISB AG, Karlsruhe, Germany
5Heidelberg Institute for Geoinformation Technology (HeiGIT) gGmbH at Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
6GIScience Research Group, Institute of Geography, Heidelberg University, Heidelberg, Germany
7German Remote Sensing Data Center, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Weßling-Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany

- MUNICIPAL OPEN DATA PORTALS: THEIR IMPLEMENTATION IN THE FACE OF A MUNICIPALITY’S POLITICAL AND TERRITORIAL REALITY
J. Diaz1 and S. Breux2
1Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, Canada
2Institut National de Recherche Scientifique, Montreal, Canada

- USING EYE-TRACKING TO SUPPORT BIG DATA DRIVEN PROPERTY VALUATION TOOLS
B. Soundararaj and C. Pettit
City Futures Research Centre, University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia



Session: Smart City - 3D

Chair : Martina Baucic

- ON RAIN INFORMATION AS MAP FEATURES FOR CAR NAVIGATION SYSTEMS
M. Gebert, T. Berroth, and J.-E. Navarro-Barrientos
MBition GmbH, Daimler AG, Dovestrasse 1, 10587 Berlin, Germany

- AN APPLICATION DOMAIN EXTENSION FOR STORING VALIDATION RESULTS OF CITYGML STRUCTURES
M. Betz and V. Coors
Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences, Stuttgart, Germany

- TESTING THE NEW 3D BAG DATASET FOR ENERGY DEMAND ESTIMATION OF RESIDENTIAL BUILDINGS
C. León-Sánchez, D. Giannelli, G. Agugiaro, and J. Stoter
3D Geoinformation group, Delft University of Technology, Faculty of the Built Environment and Architecture, Department of Urbanism, Julianalaan 134, Delft 2628BL, The Netherlands

- ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION OF GEOSPATIAL FACTORS IN SMART CITIES: A STUDY OF OFF-STREET PARKING IN MAINZ, GERMANY
A. Rolwes and K. Böhm
i3mainz, Institute for Spatial Information and Surveying Technology Mainz University of Applied Sciences, D-55128 Mainz, Germany



Session : Smart Data - Machine Learning

Chair : Giorgio Agugiaro

- Design and Results of an AI-based Forecasting of Air Pollutants for Smart Cities
L. Petry1, T. Meiers2, D. Reuschenberg2, S. Mirzavand Borujeni2, J. Arndt2, L. Odenthal2, T. Erbertseder3, H. Taubenböck3, I. Müller3, E. Kalusche3, B. Weber4, J. Käflein5, C. Mayer6, G. Meinel1, C. Gengenbach7, and H. Herold1
1Leibniz Institute of Ecological Urban and Regional Development (IOER), Dresden, Germany
2Fraunhofer Institute for Telecommunications, Heinrich Hertz Institute (HHI), Berlin, Germany
3German Remote Sensing Data Center, German Aerospace Center (DLR), Weßling-Oberpfaffenhofen, Germany
4Hof University of Applied Sciences (HSH), Hof, Germany
5Geomer GmbH, Heidelberg, Germany
6Meggsimum, Mutterstadt, Germany
7Software AG, Darmstadt, Germany

- MACHINE LEARNING FOR VEGETATION CLASSIFICATION ON MULTISPECTRAL IMAGES
Frane Gilic and Martina Baucic
Faculty of Civil Engineering, Architecture and Geodesy, Split, Croatia

- Data-based application scenarios for e-scooters
J. Fauser, N. Sigle, and D. Hertweck
Faculty of Computer Science and Reutlingen Research Institute, Reutlingen University, Germany



Session: Smart City - Navigation

Chair : Sisi Zlatanova

- INCEPTION OF HARMONISING DATA SILOS AND URBAN SIMULATION TOOLS USING 3D CITY MODELS FOR SUSTAINABLE MANAGEMENT OF THE URBAN FOOD WATER AND ENERGY RESOURCES
R. Padsala1,3, E. Gebetsroither-Geringer2, J. Peters-Anders2, and V. Coors1
1Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences, Schellingstr. 24, 70174 Stuttgart, Germany
2AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH, Giefinggasse 2, 1210 Vienna, Austria
3Concordia University, 1515 St. Catherine St. West Montreal, QC, H3G 2W1 Canada

- A PROJECTION-BASED RECONSTRUCTION ALGORITHM FOR 3D MODELING OF BRIDGE STRUCTURES FROM DRONE-BASED POINT CLOUD
M. Mehranfar1, H. Arefi1,2, and F. Alidoost3
1School of Surveying and Geospatial Engineering, College of Engineering, University of Tehran, Iran
2School of Technology, Department of Geoinformatics and Surveying, Mainz University of Applied Sciences, Germany
3Faculty of Geomatics, Computer Science and Mathematics, Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences, Germany

- City2Navigation (C2N) - A new service for digital, future-proof urban traffic management
C. Schürmann1, D. Geiger1, M. Picha2, and R. Thomas2
1TCP International, Heilbronner Straße 150, 70191 Stuttgart, Germany
2Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart, Integrated Traffic Control Center, Mercedesstraße 33, 70372 Stuttgart, Germany



Session: Smart People - Volunteered information

Chair : Robert Laurini

- COVID-19, CITIZEN’S PURCHASING BEHAVIOUR AND SMART CITY GOALS. EVIDENCE FROM BARCELONA.
A. Rueda Arasanz and D. Grimaldi
Department of Management, La Salle Faculty, Ramon Llull University, 08022 Barcelona, Spain

- URBAN VGI NETWORKS AS A PATH FOR COLLECTIVE INTELLIGENCE
P. V. Florentino1 and G. C. Pereira2
1Federal Institute of Bahia (IFBA) – Salvador, BA, Brazil
2Federal University of Bahia (UFBA) – Salvador, BA, Brazil

- COPING WITH THE DYNAMICS OF URBAN SUSTAINABILITY: POSITIONING URBAN EXPERIMENTATION PLATFORMS AS TOOLS FOR POLICY MAKING
S.-V. Rehm1, S. McLoughlin2, and G. Maccani3
1EM Strasbourg Business School, Université de Strasbourg, HuManiS EA 7308, F-67000 Strasbourg, France
2Enable, Innovation Value Institute, School of Business, National University of Ireland Maynooth, W23 F2K8 Kildare, Ireland
3Ideas for Change, Ideas 3493 S.L., 08007 Barcelona, Spain



Session : Smart City - Environment

Chair : Peter van Oosterom

- QUANTIFYING THE IMPACT OF URBAN INFILL ON THE URBAN HEAT ISLAND EFFECT – A CASE STUDY FOR AN ALTERNATIVE MEDIUM DENSITY MODEL
P. Helmholz1, D. Bulatov2, B. Kottler2, P. Burton3, F. Mancini1, M. May1, E. Strauß2, and M. Hecht2
1Curtin University, GPO Box U1987, Perth WA 6845, Australia
2Fraunhofer Institute of Optronics, System Technologies and Image Exploitation (IOSB), Gutleuthausstr. 1, 76275 Ettlingen, Germany
3Open Space Design Australia (OSDA), Bassendean, 6054, WA, Australia

- Evaluation of iPad Pro 2020 LiDAR for Estimating Tree Diameters in Urban Forest
X. Wang1,2, A. Singh3, Y. Pervysheva4, K. E. Lamatungga5, V. Murtinová6, M. Mukarram7,8, Q. Zhu1, K. Song1, P. Surový3, and M. Mokroš2,3
1School of Ecological and Environmental Sciences, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200241, China
2Department of Forest Harvesting, Logistics and Ameliorations, Faculty of Forestry, Technical University in Zvolen, Slovakia
3Faculty of Forestry and Wood Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences, Prague, Czech Republic
4Department of Geoinformation Technologies and Space Monitoring of the Earth, National Aerospace University "Kharkiv Aviation Institute", Ukraine
5Department of Natural Environment, Faculty of Forestry, Technical University in Zvolen, Slovakia
6Department of Applied Ecology, Faculty of Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Technical University in Zvolen, Slovakia
7Advance Plant Physiology Section, Department of Botany, Aligarh Muslim University, Aligarh, India
8Department of Integrated Forest and Landscape Protection, Faculty of Forestry, Technical University in Zvolen, Slovakia



Session: Smart People - Environment

Chair : Aurobindo Ogra

- Business Model Transformation in the German Energy Sector: Key Barriers and Drivers of a Smart and Sustainable Transformation Process in Practice
D. Meyer, J. Fauser, and D. Hertweck
Faculty of Computer Science and Reutlingen Research Institute, Reutlingen University, Germany

- EFFECTIVENESS OF GREEN ROOFS IN STRENGTHENING ECOLOGICAL NETWORK
M. Y. Joshi1, L. Rivière2, G. Mahy2, and J. Teller1
1LEMA, Urban and Environmental Engineering Department, University of Liege, Belgium
2Biodiversity and Landscape, TERRA Teaching and Research Center, Gembloux Agro-Bio Tech, University of Liege, Gembloux, Belgium

- ENVIRONMENT-BASED DESIGN (EBD) APPROACH TO IDENTIFY CRITICAL ISSUES IN MANAGING MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE: NAIROBI, KENYAN CASE STUDY
W. Du1, J. Yang2, H. Ge1, J. Yan2, N. Bhuiyan3, X. Liu4, F. Zhou5, and Y. Zeng2
1Department of Building, Civil, and Environmental Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
2Concordia Institute for Information Systems Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
3Department of Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
4Department of China Institute for Urban Governance, Shanghai Jiaotong University, Shanghai, China
5Edmonton Power Corporation, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

- Development of a digital 3D Participation Platform in the case study of Weilimdorf (Stuttgart, Germany)
P. Würstle, T. Santhanavanich, R. Padsala, and V. Coors
Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences, Schellingstr. 24, 70174 Stuttgart, Germany



Session : Visualization

Chair : Robert Laurini

- Concept and Evaluation of an Urban Platform for Interactive Visual Analytics
H. Ebrahim, T. Santhanavanich, P. Wuerstle, and V. Coors
Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences, Schellingstr. 24, 70174 Stuttgart, Germany

- CFD Simulation and visualization based investigation of small wind turbine potential: A case study "Neuer Stöckach" for Stuttgart
M. Brennenstuhl, M. von der Gruen, S. Harbola, A. Koukofikis, R. Padsala, M. Schaaf, V. Coors, and U. Voss
Stuttgart University of Applied Sciences, Schellingstr. 24, 70174 Stuttgart, Germany

- AN INTERACTIVE PLATFORM FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SENSORS DATA ANALYSES
S. Harbola1,2 and V. Coors1
1University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
2University of Applied Sciences, Stuttgart, Germany

- SPATIO-TEMPORAL STUDY OF THE DETERMINANTS OF RESIDENTIAL SATISFACTION IN NEW YORK CITY DURING COVID-19 USING CROWDSOURCED DATA
S. Azad and M. Ghandehari
Department of Civil and Urban Engineering, Tandon School of Engineering, New York University. Brooklyn, NY 11201, USA



Session: Smart People - Health

Chair : Alias Rahman

- USING CONTEXTUAL CUES IN UNDERSTANDING URBAN MENTAL WELL-BEING
T. Perez Oteiza, L. Kelly, and P. Mooney
Center for Research Training, Hamilton Institute and Department of Computer Science, Maynooth University, Ireland

- CITIZEN PARTICIPATION & DIGITAL TOOLS TO IMPROVE PEDESTRIAN MOBILITY IN CITIES
O. Ertz1, A. Fischer2, H. Ghorbel3, O. Hüsser3, R. Sandoz1, and A. Scius-Bertrand2
1HEIG-VD, MEI - Media Engineering Institute, Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland
2HEIA-FR, iCoSys - Institute of Complex Systems, Fribourg, Switzerland
3HE-Arc, Data Analytics Group, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

- Factors affecting Citizens’ intention to continue using of the rewarding solid-waste collection system in Tehran, Iran
F. Behnamifard1, H. Ahmady2, and H. Shokri3
1School of Architecture and Environmental Design, Iran University of Science and Technology, Tehran, Iran
2Dept. of Urban Planning, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz Branch, Ahvaz, Iran
3Dept. of Urban Design, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz Branch, Ahvaz, Iran



Session : Smart People - Citizen Engagement

Chair : Claire Ellul

- From an Inside-In towards an Outside-Out Urban Digital Twin: Business models and implementation challenges
R. D’Hauwers, N. Walravens, and P. Ballon
imec-SMIT-VUB, Belgium

- CoFlex: Flexible bracelet anti Covid-19 to protect construction workers
E. Laurini1, M. Rotilio1, P. De Berardinis1, P. Vittorini2, F. Cucchiella3, G. Di Stefano4, G. Ferri3, V. Stornelli3, and L. Tobia2
1Dept. of Civil, Construction-Architectural and Environmental Engineering, University of L’Aquila, L’Aquila, Italy
2Dept. of Life, Health and Environmental Sciences, University of L’Aquila, L’Aquila, Italy
3Dept. of Industrial and Information Engineering and Economics, University of L’Aquila, L’Aquila, Italy
4Dept. of Information Engineering, Computer Science and Mathematics, University of L'Aquila, Italy



City Demonstrator – linking research and industry

The intelligent city is more than the sum of its urban systems it is a new way of cross-sectoral planning. The City Demonstrator, powered by the M4_Lab, iCity, and Drees & Sommer, is a platform that brings together research and the industry. It invites participants from all urban sectors to explore joint modes of planning and operation of infrastructure with the aim to create synergies that would not be possible without digitalization of urban processes. The City Demonstrator offers a place where academic researchers, industry consultants, municipalities, real estate developers and operators discuss new ways of integrated planning to work out and implement solutions that increase the quality of life for people in cities and the countryside medium and long term.

Preston Rodrigues (researcher at the Centre for Geodesy and Geoinformatics (ZGG), Project ICT4iCity)

Prof. Dr. Iris Belle (Programme Director, Master Programme Smart City Solutions, Leading Consultant Drees & Sommer)

Important dates


April 12, 2021
April 26, 2021
  • Full paper submission
  • Extended Abstract submission

May 17, 2021
May 24, 2021
  • Author notification

June 14, 2021
  • Final version of papers due

September 15–17, 2021
  • Conference