Smart-IVC

Cities constantly evolve, with the appearance of new neighborhoods and the disappearance of old buildings. Information about cities are nowadays stored as static data inside huge storages where it is difficult and slow to retrieve particular information. Moreover, different data sources about cities are not aggregated since they are provided by both public websites on the Internet and by public sectors of the city.

A visualization can help supporting any decision that involves city evolution, especially in the contest of what is called a Smart City. No such service exists that provides a unique environment in which the user can both visualize a city and interact with its elements. The only technologies available are either not exhaustive or too complex to use. For example, it is possible to find technologies online that are limited to provide a 3D-visualization without any kind of interaction between the map and the user.

Smart-IVC provides an interactive 3D-visualization model of cities, integrating heterogeneous data, and supporting complex visual queries. Smart-IVC is an application accessible by everyone (since it is both user-friendly and publicly available) and that aims to enhance the city visualization, getting closer to the user needs.