Supporting Living Lab with Life Cycle and Tools for Smart City Environments

Smart Cities are becoming proactive environments in which municipalities are engaging stakeholders in contributing and participating to the life of the smart city and to the development and updating of the smart solutions in the infrastructure. To this end, the methodologies and tools for Smart City Living Lab start up, management and life cycling are becoming relevant. In this document, the solution developed for Snap4City project is described. Snap4City has been developed on the basis of Km4City tools for supporting Living Lab in response to the competitive call of Select4Cities European commission project directed by three major cities in Europe: Helsinki, Antwerp and Copenhagen. The proposed Snap4City solution includes a IOT/IOE development model, a life cycle and a set of tools for data ollection, data sharing, processes and analytics development, collection and management, and sharing. The paper also reports the experience of using these tools.