Bremerhaven is working on „Location Based Services“ in Info-Terminals.
For the installation of the bluetooth-hotspots as well as the services connected to them, the carrier medium of the „info-terminals“ must be accordingly prepared.

How should the bluetooth-hotspots be designed? What should they be able to achieve? In the course of researching the most suitable bluetooth technology for the Smart Cities Project various factors were taken into account. During the investigation and selection of the hardware, special consideration was taken in respect to quality and workmanship for use in info-terminals, which can be placed indoors as well as outdoors in Bremerhaven.

The City of Kortrijk starts experiments with different types of information screens both inside and outside the city buildings. These screens will provide services to visitors of the city.

We mainly distinguish screens for one-way communication (narrowcasting) and interactive screens (I-Points and other public computers). Both can be placed inside buildings and outside on the street.

The Smart Cities Project has just published a detailed guide to the project and the project partners. The Smart Cities Project Guide describes the aims and goals of the Smart Cities project, including a description of the partners, the projects and the work packages.

The City of Bremerhaven chooses Bluetooth to deliver up-to-date mobile information on the city and the tourist attractions. In this story Bremerhaven tells why they have taken that decision. Extending the “guidance on all aspects of life” concept to a mobile access via Bluetooth is an innovative service that has not been established yet anywhere else in the North Sea Region. In April Bremerhaven installs hotspots and the city will start the testing phase.

Mobile use of the internet is on the rise. Groningen now has the ability to monitor its website on the use of mobile devices. Since the start of this analysis-tool (part of Google analytics) on Nov 3rd 2009, the Groningen website was visited by more than 5500 mobile visitors. Daily, between 20 and 70 mobile users visit our website.

Work package 4 – Wireless City

(leader City of Groningen)

Mobile is the future. Smart Cities’ partners are developing a range of new and innovative services for mobile platforms, while testing and evaluating new forms of urban wireless networks.

Leiedal is a regional public body representing thirteen municipalities in the Kortrijk region. This region is situated in the south of Flanders, close to the French metropolitan region of Lille. The region has 296,447 inhabitants, 8,920 companies (mainly SMEs) and over 3,200 ha of business parks.

The city of Kortrijk has a population of 75,000, and is in the south of the Belgian province of West-Flanders on the Leie River. It is 25 kilometres north-east of the French city of Lille and 42 km southwest of Ghent. Kortrijk, Lille and the Belgian city of Tournai make up the transnational Eurodistrict of Rijsel-Kortrijk-Doornik, which has a population of approximately 1,900,000.

The city of Bremerhaven (population of 115,000) was founded in 1827, and is located on the east side of the Weser estuary, at the confluence of the Geest and the Weser. Bremerhaven and the city of Bremen (560,000 inhabitants) make up the Federal State of Bremen – one of Germany’s sixteen Federal States (Bundesland).