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The project

Motivated by the current challenges, RADICAL will open new horizons in the development, deployment and operation of interoperable social networking and IoT services in smart cities, notably services that could be flexibly and successfully customized and replicated across multiple cities. To this end, RADICAL will create a novel ICT platform, the RADICAL platform, enabling the rapid development and deployment of pervasive multi‐sensory and socially‐aware services for urban environments and territories.

The project partners are piloting seven distinct pilot services dealing with Cycling Safety Improvement, Products Carbon Footprint Management, Object‐driven Data Journalism,  Participatory Urbanism, Augmented Reality, Eco‐consciousness and the Commercial and Transactional Data for Pedestrian Flows. These pilot services will be accordingly replicated across several smart cities of the consortium, taking into account the peculiarities of the various cities in terms of their technical infrastructures, socio‐economical characteristics and legal environments. A living labs approach involving representative samples of the population is employed in order to study the penetration and sustainability of the services within each individual city.

This project is co-funded by the European Commission under the Competitiveness and Innovation Programme (C.I.P.).

Activities undertaken by pilot cities

To implement the services chosen by the pilot cities and region, a deep analysis of stakeholders requirements for pilot operations has been detailed in a deliverable that can be viewed here. The description of pilot scenarios and relevant Key Performance Indicators (essential for the evaluation of the success of the services) is available here.

Over 3 100 citizens are going to be actively involved in the co-creation, validation and evaluation of the services based on the Living Labs approach. The evaluation is multi‐facet and it is covering business, technical, technological and socio‐economic aspects, including analysis of feedback from all the stakeholders. The outcome of the evaluation will lead to a number of best practices associated with the successful replication of services across multiple smart cities, as well as with the sustainability, wider use and business exploitation of the services.

The RADICAL platform

A detailed specification of the service development, deployment and integration capabilities of the RADICAL platform can be read here, presented in a deliverable. This specification will lead the implementation of the Application Development Toolkit that allows service developers and integrators (mainly SMEs) to use Core Service APIs, exposing information and services from Social Media and Internet of Things platforms, to implement the pilot services.

Replicability and sustainability

The RADICAL project targets to provide a sustainability and replicability model for the RADICAL services, for the RADICAL platform and for the RADICAL project concepts in two perspectives: (1) for the cities within the consortium city partners and (2) for the cities, which would like to integrate the RADICAL solutions at the end of the project.