The Brussels intercommunal transport operator, MIVB-STIB, invites interested bidders to submit offers for its Muntstroom pre-commercial procurement. The aim is to develop novel data driven solutions for smart predictive monitoring of people flows, outdoor as well as indoor. A Living Lab is envisaged for testing the solutions in the Brussels Capital Region. Solutions are needed for the Collection, Combination, Storage, Analysis of and Smart Access to people flow-data. Register to the 28/9/21 webinar for more information about the call for tenders. Deadline for submission of offers: 29/10/2021

The city of Santiago de Compostela invites interested bidders to submit offers for two pre-commercial procurements:
(1) Development of multifunctional modular autonomous electric vehicles adapted to different specific use scenarios aimed at the design of new last-mile logistics schemes in heritage cities.
(2) Advanced modeling and simulation algorithms of pedestrian mobility at the macro level in Heritage Cities.
Deadline for submission of offers for both procurements: 22 July 2021

With more than 150 participants in an interactive Zoom session hosted by ENoLL, the third plenary meeting of the Living-in.eu movement held on 29 September 2020 was a big success.
The chair Eddy Hartog and his colleagues had the pleasure to host more than 60 cities, partially signatories of the political declaration Living.-in.eu but also some guest cities from the Intelligent Cities Challenge programme, the organisations behind the initiative ENoLL, Eurocities, OASC, the Committee of the Regions and several services of the European Commission.

ETSI releases four new extensions to add to its SAREF (Smart Appliances REFerence) ontology in the automotive, eHealth, ageing-well, wearable, and water domains.

Vehicle safety used to be measured in seatbelts and airbags. The emergence of highly networked vehicles means updating our safety parameters, and the SAFERtec project is showing us how.

The Swedish municipality of Strängnäs is a proud winner of a EUR 15,000 WiFi4EU voucher, which allowed the Local Council to offer free connectivity in low bandwidth areas.