Visits to the pilot cities have begun to gain a better understanding of the challenges they face and the solutions MONICA can offer.
The games of Yorkshire County Cricket Club and Leeds Rhinos at Headingly Carnegie Stadium, Lyon’s light festival Fête des Lumières, Hamburg’s funfair Hamburg DOM, Turin’s night life phenomenon Movida and the Kappa FuturFestival: MONICA has begun its first round of visits, interviewing all relevant stakeholders involved in organising and managing these big events, to establish needs, requirements and the choice of applications.
During April and May, MONICA partners will visit the remaining cities, TIVOLI in Copenhagen and the City of Bonn to complete the scenarios and use cases for the use of IoT technologies.
The two-day requirement planning session in Leeds was hosted by the Yorkshire County Cricket Club and included stakeholders from Leeds City Council, Leeds Rugby, the English Cricket Board, G4S (responsible for stadium security) and Mtec (responsible for stadium infrastructure).
On the first day, the venue for outlining the current situation and discussing future requirements of the MONICA platform was the Cricket Club premises, and the agenda included a tour of the stadium with inspection of the gates and turnstiles and a visit to the control room. On the following day, the meeting was held on the Leeds Rugby side of the stadium. The project team also attended the pre-match briefings of the supervisors and the stewards, and after enjoying dinner in the Lewis Jones Hospitality Suite watched the Leeds Rhinos beat the Wigan Warriors 26 to 18.
The Movida is street nightlife every weekend Thursday to Sunday during summer in the San Salvario district which has many bars, restaurants and discos. Kappa FuturFestival takes place every year in July, in Parco Dora with two full days of concerts. The organisers of the festival, Move Entertainment and the City of Turin organised workshop sessions for both city happenings, inviting key stakeholders and offered tours to Parco Dora and San Salvario to experience the settings and atmosphere.
The light festival celebrates the Virgin Mary and has done so since 1643. The festival takes place in December and lasts for four days.
Greater Lyon’s sound observatory, Acoucité welcomed MONICA partners who visited the different places in the city centre used in Fêtes des Lumières and met with key stakeholders involved in the organisation and management of the festival.
On a sunny Sunday which attracted more than 200.000 people to the biggest public festival in Northern Germany, MONICA partners were invited to join the Hamburg DOM by the City of Hamburg to get an impression of the event and to start collecting the necessary information.
The festival takes place at Heiligengeistfeld, St. Pauli in Hamburg for 30 days every summer, winter and spring, offering coaster rides, attractions and plenty of food stalls.
