Smart City

Department: Computer Science

Group Members (Front End): Jared Binder, Rita Jackson, Tony Mondelli, Dan Schuler

Group Members (Back End): Matthew Hanni, TJ Hoplock, Charlie Johnston, Corbin Schwartz

Client: Dr. Ali Mostashari

Advisor: Prof. David Klappholz

Project Description: The Smarter Cities Consortium at Stevens Institute of Technology is engaging in a pilot field project to implement smart city technologies for Hoboken, NJ. The project seeks to leverage information technology advances and smart devices to evolve cities into learning and adaptive urban system of systems that can cater to the changing needs and conditions of the urban environment. In academic year 2012-2013, a CS senior design team created an initial architecture and basic functionalities for the Smart City Hoboken app. Functionalities developed include Parking availability, energy consumption, Hoboken 311, emergency status and Swift 911. The current team will build on the existing app architecture developed by last year's students to create additional functionalities, such as mapping of sensor data inputs for environmental, noise and traffic situations, improvement of the parking app, commuting options, integration of PSE&G energy consumption information, creation of an urban innovation exchange functionality and city government poll features. Additionally, the project includes development of a back end architecture and API that will enable any interested city to use its own data resources to construct a Smart Cities app like the one being worked on for the city of Hoboken.