Initiatives
It is essential to have access to knowledge through mobile devices enabled by innovative solutions delivered as a service via the Internet. Smart Cities demand this type of mobile applications offering intelligent capabilities to enable the services defined by their Smart City Agendas.
Sprimóvil started from scientific cooperation efforts of Mexico and Spain under the principles of the Knowledge Micro, Mini and Medium Enterprise Living Lab (KSME LL) to identify opportunities for the ‘knowledge SME’. Spain was in 2012 among the leaders of Smart City projects in Europe where, just like in Latin America, there was a vast growth potential of innovation spaces such as culture, health, education, and e-government. The Sprimóvil Consortium was created signing a cooperation agreement between binational allied organizations supported by innovation agencies from Spain and Mexico:
This project focused on creating a software framework to exploit the semantic capabilities and applications of the Spribo® platform, through the most popular mobile devices in the market, generating a prototype for mobile access to knowledge networks.
In addition to the design of a generic mobile application, an essential part of the components contributed by Sprimóvil is the semantic interaction with a knowledge base through the cellular network and WiFi and the applications and augmented reality functions on the mobile device. In the first instance, these components were contextualized according to the specific requirements of a culture innovation space pilot for the city of Puebla in Mexico (in parallel to Project Reaumobile).
SPRIMOVIL IMPACTS
Science &
Technology
Social
Economic
Environment
Development of mobile apps and software interfaces for the exploitation of knowledge bases (based on ontology) through cognitive graphical user interfaces that optimize the user experience, generating a prototype of a mobile Smart City service based on a knowledge model.
High-impact "cloud" services that apply to various areas that benefit from "smart mobility" in a Smart City, reducing the digital divide by applying to a citizen customer service use case around culture through open innovation methodologies (Living Lab) with a focus centered on citizens (user-driven open innovation).
The offer of mobile knowledge services will massify the sale of Web 3.0 solutions in the emerging market of Smart Cities that offers a vast potential for growth and that will differ from other market solutions, generating tangible benefits in proportion to the value that each partner of the Sprimóvil Consortium contributes to the joint solution.
There is potential to extend the scope of the knowledge models with high-impact aspects of smart city sustainability.