E9 million in funding for “Intelligent City” Research
Professor Stewart Fotheringham from NUI Maynooth (Ireland) leads the project called StratAG – Strategic Research in Advanced Geotechnologies. It focuses on research related to geospatial monitoring and early warning systems. The €9m is from Science Foundation Ireland (SFI). Forty researchers are onboard in Ireland, along with industry partners including “ESRI, eSpatial, PMS and Navtech [sic].”
Fotheringham offers this vision of the future city:
Picture a person walking down the street with a hand-held device, which they point at each building. As they pass the cinema, the device will tell them what’s on; as they pass a restaurant, the device gives them the menu; as they pass an office block, the device tells them what firms are located in the block, their line of business and contact numbers.
