DMSVIVA23 Virtual Conference Keynote
July 2 Sunday, 2023
11am-12am New York EST Time, 8am-9am West Coast Time, 5pm-6pm Rome Time or 11pm-12pm Beijing Time
Development of the Smart City Digital Twin of Florence
Dr. Marco Fanfani
University of Florence, Italy
Abstract:
Digital Twins of Smart Cities are today a fundamental technology since they can offer a virtual context replicating a real city with high fidelity exploiting 3D building models enriched with contextual information coming from IoT sensors, heatmaps, analytic services, etc. Such solutions can provide a fundamental tool for decision-makers and stakeholders which can not only observe in real-time the status of the city but also perform analysis and simulations. In this talk we will discuss the steps needed to build a Smart City Digital Twin, from the definition of requirements to the 3D modeling and map construction, to its distribution through an interactive web interface, showing also how to embed information coming from sensors and analytics. We will focus on the case study of Florence implemented in the Snap4City platform.
About the Speaker:
Dr. Marco Fanfani obtained his Ph.D. in Information Engineering in 2015 from the University of Florence, Italy. He is a senior research fellow at the DISIT Lab of the Department of Information Engineering of the University of Florence. His research interest includes IoT, digital twin, computer vision, 3D reconstruction, and virtual and augmented reality. He worked on several national and international R&D projects. He is cooperating on the development of the digital twin of the city of Florence, implemented in the Snap4City platform, presented at the 2022 Smart City Expo World Congress, and awarded as the best paper in the past DMSVIVA2022 conference.