The Trento Smart City Labs (TSCLabs)

A “Smart City” is a city that uses tech­no­logy as a means to improve the ser­vices provided to cit­izens and com­pan­ies and, more in gen­er­al, the qual­ity of life of all.

“Trento Smart City” is a pro­ject whose aim is to imple­ment all this, based on a par­ti­cip­at­ory pro­cess that involves cit­izens, com­pan­ies, and oth­er insti­tu­tions on the ter­rit­ory.

The Trento Smart City Labs are a series of meet­ings organ­ized in the main squares and parks, in the schools and in the twelve dis­tricts of the city to pro­mote the apps and the smart ser­vices avail­able in Trento, by provid­ing the cit­izens with inform­a­tion and sup­port for their install­a­tion and usage.
We already been in 10 dif­fer­ent areas in the Dis­trict of Trento and enter in con­tact with about 200 people.

We already been in 10 dif­fer­ent areas in the Dis­trict of Trento and enter in con­tact with about 200 people.

Based on the idea that “smart cit­ies do not exist without smart cit­izens” (C. Ratti), the goal of the Trento Smart City Labs is to let people know, under­stand and appre­ci­ate the apps and ser­vices real­ized with the inten­tion of mak­ing their daily life easi­er and improve the live­ab­il­ity of the city through tech­no­logy and digit­al tools.

Among the activ­it­ies described we talked about DECENTER and how our use case, linked to ped­es­tri­an cross­ing, can help the cit­izen to live more serenely their own life. 

Thanks to DECENTER when a ped­es­tri­an or cyc­list wishes to cross the road, the sys­tem will identi­fy poten­tially dan­ger­ous situ­ations such as approach­ing a fast car, noise, reduced view due to rain, fog, snow, obstacles and will gen­er­ate a warn­ing that will help people at increase their atten­tion and com­plete in safety of the cross­ing.