48H to create the city of the future!

In early April 2016, Cisco organized a hackathon dedicated to the "smart city" during a weekend of code and programming, "48 hours to create the city of the future!".

Developers, designers, makers ... welcome to the connected city with Cisco.On this occasion, the IT company from San Jose (California) began to provide participants its latest technologies: Flare, IOx, DMo, Tropo, and EIoT panda.

A dozen projects will be presented in front of a panel of judges of companies like Cisco, Vinci Energy, La Poste ...

The winning project will be one from Spinalcom, "Smart Numa".

Spinalcom, incubated startup in the entrepreneurship center at École Polytechnique, develops an intelligent processing and data management platform named "Spinalcore".

This platform allows interconnection of connected objects, regardless of the cloud, with great responsiveness and data management in real-time (differentiating it from the Cloud technology, much slower), data privacy & security, local system autonomy and bandwidth cost reduction.

48H to create the city of the future!

The city of tomorrow will be Smart Smart city is already there. Or almost there! It is built on data currently available in a search for intelligent and efficient management.Thus, it optimizes energy savings, reduces unnecessary travel, provides a more pleasant mobility and is developed on green values ... it meets the societal issue of better city living.If the smart city offers its residents a quality of life and maximum comfort with minimum resources consumption, it is by implementing sustainable infrastructure (transport, energy, communication ...) at different levels of the city (building, district, city). As said by the sociologist Jean-Louis Missika "smart city is a lung that lives to the rhythm of its people. »

The Smart Building, key block in the smart city, incorporates various features: improved comfort (heating, cooling, ventilation, lighting), optimizing energy consumption, safety of occupants ...One of the key points relating to the issue of safety is fire.This is indeed a major economic risk for companies (bankrupt, equipment & stock and customers looses) and at worst, human risks (death, poisoning related to smoke and gases, asphyxiation, burns or trauma).

The city of tomorrow will be Smart

Smart city is already there. Or almost there! It is builded on and uses ICT data (Information Technology and Communication) at its disposal in a search for intelligent and efficient management.Thus, it optimizes energy expenditure on its territory, to reduce unnecessary travel, provides a more pleasant and mobility develops in the respect of the environment ... it meets the societal issue of better city living.If the smart city offers its residents a quality of life and maximum comfort with minimum resource consumption is by implementing and communicating sustainable infrastructure (transport, energy, communication ...) at different levels of the city ( building, district, city). Just like that indicated by the sociologist Jean-Louis Missika "smart city is a lung that lives to the rhythm of its people."

48H to create the city of the future!The Smart Building, individual link in the intelligent city takes its place at the heart of this ecosystem and incorporates various features: improved comfort (heating, cooling, ventilation, lighting), optimizing energy consumption, security of occupants ...One of the key points relating to the issue of safety is fire.This is indeed a major economic risk for companies (closure, loss of equipment and stock, loss of customers) and at worst, of human risks to occupants (death, poisoning related to smoke and gases, asphyxiation , burns or trauma).

The fog computing architecture

In this context where real-time is vital, the "fog computing" architecture of this system provides the benefits of being local to enable instant actions to be triggered upon detection of an abnormality. The IoT system real-time responsiveness is independent from the network connection hazards, which contributes to its robustness and reliability. Finally, the "fog computing" middleware developed by Spinalcom enables the interoperability of different IoT devices available on the market.

During the Hackathon, Spinalcom has worked to develop an intelligent IoT system (sensors, actuators, applications) as part of a fire breakout in a building. Using the SpinalCore platform locally in the building gives to this solution benefits like high modularity, very high reactivity and improved the overall security.

The "Smart Numa" project: smart building facing a fire.

When fire outbreaks, smoke is detected by the fire detector and the surveillance camera, temperature sensors detect an abnormal warming of the atmosphere.

All data are processed and analyzed in real time by local analytics connected to the Spinalcore hub.

As an immediate result, the application analyses of the overall space of the building using Flare which allows a precise location of all persons inside.

48H to create the city of the future!

As a consequence, the Tropo system goes into action and sends targeted information to various stakeholders. Thus, a text message stating the appropriate emergency exit will be sent to the occupants to facilitate their evacuation (depending on their geolocation) and a "Security Check" to ensure the validity of the person receiving the mobile text message.

The ERT (emergency response team) in this building will also be granted a text message indicating the closest extinguishers to try to limit the spread of the fire.

At the same time, the firehouse is notified and receive a detailed report about the building (as well as an analysis of the surrounding buildings, including a warning about a possible danger like the presence of hazardous substances).

48H to create the city of the future!

48H to create the city of the future!

The arrival and intervention of the emergency service are facilitated by the intelligent management of the building environment: traffic lights automation facilitate fluid routing of emergency vehicles to the scene of the disaster, the interactive display panels nearby warn the neighborhood ("ongoing Incident at Numa building, please get away »).

From fire outbreak to firefighters arrival, a wide variety of pro-active actions and assessments were done, saving time and optimizing the intervention of the emergency service.

The technology

Spinalcom has developed an intelligent connected system (sensors, actuators, applications) in the context of a fire starting in a building named "Numa" 39 Rue du Caire, in the 2nd district of Paris.

The "Smart Numa" project is based on the "Fog computing" principles associated with some of the services developed and offered by Cisco, with the goal of making the building "intelligent and autonomous".

The three Cisco technologies used in this Hackathon are Flare, Tropo and lox.

Flare is an indoor location API that lets users discover and interact with things in an environment.

Thus, the intelligent building is able to:• know how many people are inside the building• accurately pinpoint people location (floor, position)• indicate the location of elevators, stairs, exits, fire extinguishers ...

Tropo makes it simple to automate communications, connecting your code to the phone network with both voice and messaging. The use of this technology in "smart building" enables to communicate with people inside or outside the building.

The overall management of all data and information is provided by the Spinalcore platform installed on Cisco Iox routers.

48H to create the city of the future!

Thanks to the SpinalCore platform developed by Spinalcom, the start-up has prototyped this complex system in only 48 hours.

Thanks to organizers (Cisco, Numa Paris, BeMyApp), members of the jury, Spinalcom team (+ Manuel Pozo, independant developer) and the Pole Entrepreneurship and Innovation at École Polytechnique.