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Crowdsourcing for Smart Cities That Realizes the Situation of Cities and Information Sharing

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The chapter describes initiatives aimed at improving the quality and efficiency of urban life by understanding the urban situation by utilizing an unspecified number of citizens and sharing collected and aggregated information, mainly using commoditized devices such as smartphones. Specifically, the chapter focuses on efforts to improve the efficiency of road management work by collecting road traffic conditions using a drive recorder application and acquiring sensor data that can estimate the road surface condition. It also shows a crowdsourced bus location service that can be realized at low cost by making good use of BLE beacons and smartphone apps. In addition, the chapter focuses on efforts to collect the “emotions” of people who go and go on the street corner.

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Acknowledgments

The author would like to thank the City of Sapporo, Hokkaido Government, and Hokkaido Chuo Bus Co., Ltd. for their cooperation with projects in Sapporo. The author also thanks KDDI R&D Laboratories, Shibasaki Laboratory of Center for Spatial Information Science of the University of Tokyo, Tokyo Corporation, the National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST), and JIPDEC for their cooperation with Nicott project.

The research projects were partly supported by the CPS-IIP Project in the research promotion programs “Research and Development for the Realization of Next-Generation IT Platforms” of the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan (MEXT), “Research and Development on Fundamental and Utilization Technologies for Social Big Data” of the Commissioned Research Promotion Office of the National Institute of Information and Communications Technology (NICT), Japan, and the Grant-in-Aid for IT Integration-based New Social System Development and Demonstration Project of the New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) of Japan.

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  1. Digital Content and Media Sciences Research Division, National Institute of Informatics, Tokyo, Japan

    Kenro Aihara

  2. Graduate School of Interdisciplinary Information Studies, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

    Hajime Imura

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Aihara, K., Imura, H. (2021). Crowdsourcing for Smart Cities That Realizes the Situation of Cities and Information Sharing. In: Augusto, J.C. (eds) Handbook of Smart Cities. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-15145-4_67-1

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