EMERALDS’s vision is to design, develop and create an urban data-oriented Mobility Analytics as a Service (MAaaS) toolset, consisting of the so-called ‘emeralds’ services, compiled in a proof-of-concept, capable of exploiting the untapped potential of extreme urban mobility data. The toolset will enable the stakeholders of the urban mobility ecosystem to collect and manage ubiquitous spatio-temporal data of high-volume, velocity and variety, analyse them both in online and offline settings, import them to real-time responsive AI/ML algorithms and visualize results in interactive dashboards, whilst implementing privacy preservation techniques at all data modalities and at all levels of its architecture. The toolset will offer advanced capabilities in data mining of large amounts and varieties of urban mobility data and its efficiency will be assessed, validated and demonstrated in three TRL 4 pilot use cases, and deployed/showcased in two early adopters’ data-driven TRL 5-6 applications.
EMERALDS’s vision will be realised through five (5) objectives: i) Design a service-oriented reference architecture of a palette of services (‘emeralds’) for extreme scale urban mobility data analytics, underpinned by a distributed computing environment ensuring that both edge and cloud processing contribute towards establishing a robust processing pipeline, ii) Develop extreme-scale acquisition and processing methods and tools for urban mobility data, which will be scalable with the data at hand, and at the same time facilitate accurate and low-latency data collection, pre-processing, mining, fusion, and management., iii) Develop mobility data analytics and AI/ML tools and services, appropriately designed to perform along the edge/fog/cloud continuum. iv) Demonstrate and measure the efficiencies of the services through three pilot use cases and validate the concepts and tools' usefulness through two early adoption applications, v) Develop and implement a plan for wider adoption and accelerate diffusion of innovation and exploitation of project outcomes through appropriate dissemination, communication, and exploitation activities.
