An Urban Big Data Platform for Smarter Hong Kong: Integrate to Inspire

     Key research topics

This project aims to develop an urban big data platform for Hong Kong’s smart city ambitions. The platform serves as a vital midstream infrastructure of smart city, which feeds the upstream theories and data to the downstream applications.

The key research topics are the technical and methodological challenges, such as information richness and completeness, information interoperability, and service scalability. The primary delivery will be an urban big data platform with both openness and credibility, both data richness and semantic consistency, both service independence and value co-creation.

Objectives

  • To identify the data sources to be integrated
  • To design the system architecture
  • To develop gateways for information interoperation
  • To explore value-added services for future smart city applications

Significance

  • Open to a series of social-economic problems under the realm of smart city
  • Open to interdisciplinary collaboration and development
  • Open to new business opportunities

Project plan

  • Identification of the data sources to be integrated in the urban big data platform (6 months)
  • Design of system architecture (4 months)
  • Development of the gateway for information interoperation (7 months)
  • Exploration of value-added services of the platform for smart city applications (7 months)

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The project was supported by HKU Platform Technology Fund (PTF) 2018.

Distinguished features

  • To take the challenges of scalability from the outset.
  • To interact with potential users to co-develop the platform.