Bremerhaven, August 2011. At the Steering Committee Meeting this May in Bremerhaven the Bluetooth and WLAN- activities, the components of the work packages from the Smart Cities project (WP3 and WP4) were visited and presented in the context of the entire touristic information system for Bremerhaven.

Eemspoort has a first for Groningen: This business park is the first city-district with wireless internet. Since a few days the Wifi-system is on air, thanks to an antenna on the roof of network expert Mediacaster, itself located at Eemspoort.

Mobile services are the future for providing real time and geobased services. This is one of the conclusions of the event “The future of mobile”, organized by the NSR-projects Smart Cities and E-CLIC in Kortrijk, on May 10th, 2011 in “The Studios”.

While the functionality tests are running in the background, in the „test-bed“ of the WLAN hardware delivered in December 2010 by the company Briteline from Bremen, there are quite other construction sites in respect to the „WLAN info-terminals“.

The 24th and 25th of March 2011 a lively workshop on the businessmodels for Wireless services was held in Groningen. The main goal was to determine the drivers and pitfalls for a successful and sustainable wireless city.

Smart Cities project partners, technologists, planners and municipal representatives from across the North Sea Region are meeting in Groningen today and tomorrow to discuss different approaches to developing wireless services and the business cases that are necessary to make these solutions work.

Many cities are planning to implement a WIFI network. During this workshop from Smart Cities, we will highlight a few cases and try to extract the success and fail factors that are driving the business case for wireless netwoorks in urban areas. New developments and business opportunities will be discussed.

Even more information for citizens and tourists, prompt, current and available directly there where necessary. Already in 2008 the concept was formulated to reach even more citizens and tourists of all social ranks and age groups and also to reach remote regions.

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.