2nd Scent Plenary Meeting in Rome
The Scent consortium gathered for its second plenary meeting in Rome 14-15 June 2017. The two-day plenary was attended by 24 partners representing all 10 partner organisations.
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Scent ‘Spotlight’ Series – Daniele Miorandi, U-Hopper
U-Hopper – an intro from Daniele Miorandi Daniele Miorandi is executive VP for research and development at U-Hopper, a research-intensive technology-driven company. U-Hopper builds solutions for other companies through data analytics tools. Daniele focused on U-Hopper’s earlier engagement with environmental projects before Scent, how smaller communities can benefit from Scent and how Scent can become […]
Riccardo Braga from XTeam Software reviews Nordic Game Conference
From Wednesday, 17 May to Friday, 19 May 2017, Riccardo Braga, our colleague from partner organisation XTeam Software, travelled north to Malmö, Sweden for the annual Nordic Game conference. One of the leading European gaming conferences, the event boasts high-profile keynote speakers and focused talks on industry matters including mobile gaming and VR, as well […]
Scent ‘Spotlight’ Series – Athanasia Tsertou, ICCS
Our Second ‘Spotlight’ entry focuses on the work of ICCS, the Institute of Communication and Computer Systems, a research institute based in Athens. ICCS conducts research across several application areas, including security, transport, logistics and the environment. For the latter, ICCS interests include information and communication technologies for environmental applications, including sensors, sensor networks and […]
Scent partner U-Hopper attends Commonfare Trentino
What fundamentally links Scent to a diverse set of EU-funded research projects and to a global movement/campaign is the theme of citizen science and its development as a citizen observatory project. Last month, Andrea Cuoghi from Scent partner organisation U-Hopper, attended a round table with EU-funded digital platform Commonfare and local stakeholders in Trentino (Italy) […]
Scent ‘Spotlight’ Series – Riccardo Braga, XTeam Software
In the first of our ‘Spotlight’ series with Scent partners, we spoke to XTeam Software, a software development company based in Veneto, Italy. XTeam – an intro from Riccardo Braga Riccardo Braga is a mobile and video game developer at XTeam. He talked us through the company, its motivations to get involved with Scent and […]
Flickr tags could help predict floods
According to a new study, images of floods and other large amounts of water uploaded to the online social image gallery Flickr could help scientists predict floods before they overwhelm flood-prone areas and communities. Researchers at the University of Warwick studied “tagged” photos on Flickr with words like “river” and “water” which were matched to known flood […]
Scent partners gather in Dublin for first plenary project meeting
Scent project partners were met with unusually dry Dublin conditions for the Scent project’s first plenary meeting, which featured presentations and discussions on project progress. Partners from the Scent pilot areas; the Danube river delta (Romania), and the Kifisos river (Greece), presented the latest on their progress. Iulian Nichersu of DDNI emphasised the importance of […]
New network of tiny satellites launched to photograph Earth daily
The most important component at the forefront of the Scent project will be YOU – the people, acting as the project’s eyes and ears through smartphones and other devices. This is citizen science. But for monitoring the environment, a lot of research is still being done with traditional machines. In space, that is.
New Report on citizen data – “Making Citizen Generated Data Work”
What kind of data is at the heart of the entire Scent project? Citizen-generated data (CGD). CGD is how the Scent project will develop a “people-centred” web for monitoring the environment around us.