{"id":177,"date":"2018-04-26T15:35:38","date_gmt":"2018-04-26T14:35:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/urban-living\/?page_id=177"},"modified":"2020-11-26T14:35:45","modified_gmt":"2020-11-26T14:35:45","slug":"smart-cities","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/urban-living\/projects\/smart-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart Cities and Big Data in the Built Environment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Principal Investigator<\/strong>:\u00a0<span style=\"float: none;background-color: transparent;color: #000000;font-family: 'Open Sans';font-size: 16px;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: 400;letter-spacing: 0.08px;text-align: left;text-decoration: none;text-indent: 0px;text-transform: none\">Tim Dixon (Lead Investigator), Martin Sexton Shu Ling Lu Jorn Van der Wetering (<\/span><strong style=\"background-color: transparent;color: #000000;quot;quot;font-size: 16px;font-style: normal;font-variant: normal;font-weight: bold;letter-spacing: 0.08px;text-align: left;text-decoration: none;text-indent: 0px;text-transform: none\"><span style=\"margin: 0px;font-family: 'Open Sans';font-weight: normal\">University of Reading)<\/span><\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Researcher<\/strong><strong>:<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Funding Status:<\/strong> RICS<br \/>\n<strong>Start and End Date:<\/strong> 2013-14<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Brief Description:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-269 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/urban-living\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/smart.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"381\" height=\"263\" srcset=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/urban-living\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/smart.png 452w, https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/urban-living\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/32\/smart-300x207.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 381px) 100vw, 381px\" \/>This work was funded by RICS Research Trust and led by Tim Dixon. The interconnected agendas of smart cities, big data and open data, on the face of it, provide bold and exciting opportunities for built environment professionals. With a focus at the city level, this research examines the development of data platforms in the UK and internationally, and determines how professionals in the built environment can benefit from them.<\/p>\n<p>The research identified four key barriers to the development of big data projects in the built environment:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A lack of consistency in the definitions and measurement of built environment big data.<\/li>\n<li>A low level of built environment sector business engagement.<\/li>\n<li>The lack of interoperability between different varieties of datasets.<br \/>\nThe present lack of a \u2018bottom-up\u2019, demand-focused approach to the smart cities agenda.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>Publications and Outputs:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/centaur.reading.ac.uk\/view\/creators\/90004638.html\">Dixon, T.<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/centaur.reading.ac.uk\/view\/creators\/90005472.html\">Van de Wetering, J.<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/centaur.reading.ac.uk\/view\/creators\/90001121.html\">Sexton, M.<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/centaur.reading.ac.uk\/view\/creators\/90003776.html\">Lu, S.-L.<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/centaur.reading.ac.uk\/view\/creators\/90006093.html\">Williams, D.<\/a>,\u00a0Ulutas Duman, D.\u00a0and\u00a0Chen, X., (2017)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/centaur.reading.ac.uk\/69730\/\">Smart cities, big data and the built environment: what&#8217;s required?<\/a>\u00a0Research Report Series. Project Report. RICS, London<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/centaur.reading.ac.uk\/view\/creators\/90004638.html\">Dixon, T.<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/centaur.reading.ac.uk\/view\/creators\/90000249.html\">Barlow, J.<\/a>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/centaur.reading.ac.uk\/view\/creators\/90005257.html\">Grimmond, S.<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/centaur.reading.ac.uk\/view\/creators\/90000872.html\">Blower, J.<\/a>, (2015)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/centaur.reading.ac.uk\/40223\/\">Smart and sustainable: using Big Data to improve peoples&#8217; lives in cities.<\/a>\u00a0Discussion Paper. University of Reading, Reading<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rics.org\/contentassets\/cb3fd55b63df4d1fa6b9d8e921a8ddfd\/rics_smart_cities_big_data_2017_research_110917_rt.pdf\">RICS Report<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.reading.ac.uk\/CME\/NewsItems\/cme-news-SmartandSustainableUsingBigDatatoImprovePeoplesLivesinCities.aspx\">University of Reading Position Paper on Smart and Sustainable Cities<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/research.reading.ac.uk\/research-blog\/smart-cities-top-tips-for-mayors\/\">All Party Parliamentary Group Smart City Top Tips for City Mayors<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Principal Investigator:\u00a0Tim Dixon (Lead Investigator), Martin Sexton Shu Ling Lu Jorn Van der Wetering (University of Reading) Researcher: Funding Status: RICS Start and End Date: 2013-14 Brief Description: This work&#8230;<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"&#104;&#116;&#116;&#112;&#115;&#58;&#47;&#47;&#114;&#101;&#115;&#101;&#97;&#114;&#99;&#104;&#46;&#114;&#101;&#97;&#100;&#105;&#110;&#103;&#46;&#97;&#99;&#46;&#117;&#107;&#47;&#117;&#114;&#98;&#97;&#110;&#45;&#108;&#105;&#118;&#105;&#110;&#103;&#47;&#112;&#114;&#111;&#106;&#101;&#99;&#116;&#115;&#47;&#115;&#109;&#97;&#114;&#116;&#45;&#99;&#105;&#116;&#105;&#101;&#115;&#47;\">Read More ><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":219,"featured_media":0,"parent":163,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"__cvm_playback_settings":[],"__cvm_video_id":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-177","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.8.1 - 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