The objective of the project is to utilize the data produced by the city of Oulu's UPI (Urban Pervasive Infrastructure) and other sources for modeling and exploiting urban flows and networks. This data captures a rich subset of the everyday life and activities taking place in the City of Oulu. As interactive communication technologies play an increasing role in our everyday lives, the infrastructure that supports these activities can be in important source of understanding the type, frequency and characteristics of citizen's activities. Crucially, a characteristic of these technologies is mobility, and increasingly mobility has become an important aspect of technology usage and user needs.  Hence, this project considers capturing and analyzing various types of flows and networks of everyday life in the City of Oulu. By capturing and analysing these flows and networks, our project will develop services that better fulfill Oulu's stakeholders’.

This project was awarded by the Academy of Finland and TEKES to Vassilis Kostakos as a fellowship of the Finland Distinguished Professor program.  It is a collaboration between the M-ITI and the University of Oulu, Finland, and a number of additional partners: Nokia, Bluegiga Technologies, Center for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment of Northern Ostrobothnia, City of Oulu, Liidea Ltd, Oulu Business Coalition, Oulu Innovation Ltd.