senseable citycambridge (ma) | 22 oct 2010

kristian kloecklsenseable city lab, massachusetts institute of technology

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1990...

“we are headed for the death of cities” [due to the continued growth of personal computing and distributed organizations advances] “cities are leftover baggage from the industrial era.”

George Gilder (1995)

2010...

“in 2008, the world reached an invisible but momentous milestone: for the first time in history more than half its human population, 3.3 billion people, live in urban areas. by 2030, this is expected to swell to almost 5 billion”.

United Nations Population Fundhttp://www.unfpa.org/swp/2007/english/introduction.html

vision

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connections

rethinking in a creative way the interface between people, mobile technology and the city

The Copenhagen Wheel

Copenhagen: city of bikes

today: 37% bike commuting350 km bike paths

objective 2015: 50% bike commuting

Trash | Track

why do we know so much about the supply chain and so little about the “removal chain”?

we know the supply chain

where does trash go?

real time rome & wikicity

20

closing the feedback loop

between city, people and real-time maps

distributedsensors

complex entity[city]

actuators

processing unit

real time control system analogy

Venice Architecture Biennale 2006

Connectivity: Is public transportationwhere the people are?

Visitors: Where are tourists congregating?

wikicity romenotte bianca | 8 settembre 2007

WikiCity RomeNotte Bianca | 8. September 2007

Future ENEL

Team @ MITSenseable City Laboratory:Carlo Ratti, Assaf Biderman, Stephen Miles, Filippo Dal Fiore, German W Aparicio Jr., Rex Britter, Xiaoji Chen, Carnaven Chiu, Luigi Farrauto, Jan Kokol, Claudio Martani, Vincenzo Manzoni, Sebastian Palacios, Christian Sommer

Tangible Media Group:Hiroshi Ishi, Daniel Leithinger, Jinha Lee

Responsive Environments Group:Joseph A Paradiso, Gershon Dublon

Humans and Automation Laboratory: Mary "Missy" Cummings

MIT Italy Program:Serenella Sferza

Accidents happen…In February 2009, a silo at a coal-fired power plant exploded, severely injuring six workers and resulting in hundreds of thousand of US$ in fines [Industrial Fuels and Power Operations, January 6th, 2010 by IFandP Research]

Accident at power plant in Connecticut, 2009

The cost of accidents…“Our results show that, on average, shareholders suffer a significant loss […] over the two days immediately following disasters. Multivariate regression analysis finds that losses in the first days are strongly related to the seriousness of the accident. One fatality or serious injury is associated with an additional loss of $164 million, while the occurrence of a toxic release corresponds to an additional drop of around $1 billion.”

Dispatches from Davos; May. 6 2010 - 2:50 pm; Posted by Paul Maidment

Safety today(in construction)

1/ define procedures

2/ communicate procedures

Visual safety at Ngres

Safety line at Ngres

3/ review application

Possible problems…

Sometimes…- procedures do not fit complexity of reality- implementation is not 100%

accurate

� accidents happen…

Safety tomorrow

physical world � real time copy in the digital world

analysis in the digital world(much more efficient)

implementation back from digital world � physical world

1/ sensing

Three Levels of SensingBasestation Wearable Infrastructure

Fixed (powered)Include camera,radio, environmental sensors

Rechargeable (daily or weekly) Include inertial sensing, radio location, audio, simple environmental sensors

Simple, ultra-low powerDynamic wakeupLast months/years

Leave and forget…Recent Resenv Devices

2/ analysis

Safety by Design - BIM collaboration

4D Planning - BIM + GANTT

Appendix – ENEL Safety Ratings

Document providedby the ENEL safety team

BIM list of construction

tasks

Construction activity risk intensityspreadsheet:

MIT 4D BIM Safety Visualization Tool

Tangible Media Model

senseable citycambridge (ma) | 22 oct 2010

kristian kloecklsenseable city lab, massachusetts institute of technology

| SENSEable City Lab