Tourism statistics overview
Mobile Big Data provides the best opportunity for measuring the mobility of tourists. Anonymised data from mobile phones allows the generation of statistics for inbound, domestic, and outbound tourism flows, describing the places that tourists visit, the duration of their stay, and the distribution between overnight stays and same-day visits. It was looked into tourism data in Tartu, Estonia for 2016 for the Tartu City government.
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Public transportation network based on data
Modelling of the new public transportation network will be based on collecting and analyzing different data sets: development plans, previous studies and laws will be combined with citizens' demographical data, electronic ticketing data, mobile positioning data and input from the citizens. During the entire planning process citizens will be encouraged to participate in all steps: focus group interviews to understand the current challenges and future expectations, public discussions over the vision and testing the alternatives before implementing.
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Collision avoidance system for buses and large municipal vehicles - Mobileye Shield+TM
Mobileye Shield+TM is a collision avoidance system speci cally designed to address the large blind spots, greater turning radii and other unique challenges that drivers of buses and large vehicles encounter daily on crowded city streets. Mobileye Shield+ consists of four to six vision sensors that are constantly monitoring the road ahead of the bus as well as its blind spots. Mobileye safety technology is powered by sophisticated machine learning and computer-vision algorithms that continuously analyze the driving environment to identify hazards including other vehicles, pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists. Upon detection, Mobileye Shield+ tracks them, and when necessary, issues visual and audio alerts in real-time to assist drivers in avoiding, or at least mitigating, collisions.
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Adaptive street lights
In 2016 dynamic street light management system was installed in Tartu as a pilot project. While being one of the first installations in the Baltics, it posted promising results. The success is achieved by integrating luminaries with sensors specifically dedicated for streets lighting. The solutions provides lighting exactly at the times of movement and dims the light down when there is no one around.
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Electronic bus card
Since 2015, the City of Tartu is using a modern ticketing system which is already in use in many places throughout Europe. A contactless plastic chip card, or a sticker, which must be swiped at on-board validators upon entering a city bus, has been introduced. Use of the bus card is compulsory for all passengers, except those travelling for free under the provisions of the Public Transportation Act. The new system charges the passenger the cheapest price, up to the price of a full day ticket. Using a registered card also ensures that your credit is preserved in the event of your losing your card.
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Municipal parking
In 2015 Tartu City Government implemented a new tool for the parking inspectors working on the streets. This is a mobile application for public servant, who can now process car verification from National Car Registry through secure x-Roadand verify parking permits by strong authentication. It's now possible for the parking instructor to sign penalty decision by Mobile ID directly on the street and also process penalty decision automatically, adding provement photos from the same device.
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ARNO - system for managing educational services in Tartu
Since the Soviet era, basic schools had ‘service areas’ and a school was required to enrol all of the children who lived within its service area. As such, basic schools based on place of residence were determined according to who lived in a particular area. From 2014 City of Tartu uses ARNO, the system for manging educational services, it places children into schools by region and keeps the accounting of vacancies for schools and kindergartens. Pupils starting Grade 1 are divided up according to school capacity, taking into account walking distances between schools and homes calculated using Google Maps for calculating and National Population Registry for data. A child’s school based on place of residence is determined to be the nearest school with an opening for enrolment. This may not be the closest school to their home, as other pupils may live closer.
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Geo-archive citizen interface
In 2013 Tartu City Government decided to open up the geo-archive for the citizens. Citizens need to authenticate themselves online with ID card or Mobile ID to get access to geo-archive citizen interface that allows them to view the data on underground infrastructures pertaining to their real estate. It shows all the necessary pipes and electricity a real estate owner needs to see for example before ordering some construction works on their premises.
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Distant street light control system SmartELI
In 2010 distant street light management and control system SmartELI was implemented in Tartu. It is a modular street lighting control system that makes street luminaires more energy efficient and cuts maintenance cost. The smart street lighting system is designed to be future-proof. It uses open IP-based wireless communication enabling standalone street lighting infrastructures to become hubs for Internet of Things (IoT) and cloud-based services.
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SPOKU - database of support given to culture, sports and youth work
Since 2007 all applications for support to culture, sports and youth work in Tartu are submitted to the City Government and processed digitally in the information system SPOKU. The system is used with the secure ID card and is connected with the City Government’s document administration programme and the state information system X-road. Since 2010, participants in the lists confirm their participation through SPOKU.
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First mobile applications for the citizens
Tartu introduced the first set of the mobile applications for the citizens already in 2005.
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Broadband for all schools and kindergartens
In 2000 Tartu launched superfast broadband Internet network for all schools and public libraries as global pioneer. In the next phase all other public buildings and units of the city administration were connected. Minimum speed 100 MB/s was guaranteed. Local networks and WIFI are supporting data traffic in the buildings. Today it has developed even further and since 2015 a minimum speed of 1GB/s is now guaranteed for the schools and kindergartens.
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Reusing old electric vehicle batteries
The objective of this activity is to use EV batteries in a sustainable way by giving them a second life. Reusing old batteries will considerably benefit the environment as less resources will be used to produce new batteries and energy storages and at the same time, renewable solar energy will be used to charge the EVs. The system will thus consist of old EV batteries, PV panels, EV chargers and battery charging equipment. The latter is the most important part of the system as this equipment is currently not available on the market.
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District cooling system that uses residual heat
The new district cooling system that will be installed in ca. 22 pilot buildings will use residual heat for producing water, which will be supplied through the existing district heating network. More specifically, this system will be based on a heat pump that, installed to return the flow of the district cooling system, will produce heat for the district heating system by using residual heat from cooling. The district cooling system will use free solar energy from PV panels to cover a part of the cooling system’s energy demand. As such, the use of fossil electric energy for producing hot water with electric boilers will be replaced with residual heat and electricity produced by PV panels. The solution will meet consumer demands for thermal indoor comfort and domestic hot water while retaining high energy efficiency and share of renewable energy. The plant is located next to river Emajõgi, allowing to use river-cooled chillers that are a part of the high-performance production solution. Water from the river is used for free cooling from October to April.
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LED street lights with smart controllers
The smart street light control system is based on a wireless mesh technology. Smart controllers, capable of network and device-related decision-making, are installed in each of the new 312 LED street lights in Tartu and rely on wireless communication for exchanging information between the controllers and sensors.
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SmartEnCity building renovations
The key activity here is renovating the old Soviet apartment buildings in the downtown area into energy-efficient and modern houses. The pilot area includes 42 apartment buildings, approximately 20 of which will be renovated. A large-scale renovation of the apartment buildings includes insulating the building envelope, constructing forced air ventilation and central water heating systems, etc. in line with the standards of zero energy buildings. All the houses will also be equipped with solar panels to produce renewable energy. The renovation works must be completed by the end of the year 2018.
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Gas buses in the whole inner-city public transportation network
The aim is that by 2019, 100% of public transportation buses in Tartu will run on gas. As such, Tartu is moving towards becoming the first city in Estonia to transform its public transport into a more environmentally friendly system. Currently, there are 25 contractual bus lines and 2 commercial bus lines in Tartu. In 2013, the number of passengers using public transport in Tartu was more than 12.8 million. Citizens will be engaged in the form of awareness-raising – citizens will be informed about the benefits of gas buses and how the use of gas buses will affect their living environment (less noise, less particulates, less GHG emissions etc.).
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Adaptive street lights
In 2016 dynamic street light management system was installed in Tartu as a pilot project. While being one of the first installations in the Baltics, it posted promising results. The success is achieved by integrating luminaries with sensors specifically dedicated for streets lighting. The solutions provides lighting exactly at the times of movement and dims the light down when there is no one around.
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Public transportation real-time application
Tartu public transport application was developed together with the citizens as end users who were involved to the project from the ideation phase until the final version was tested in real city environment. The application allows browsing schedules and routes without any internet connection. When connected to the internet, the application allows you to see the departures of buses in real time. Users can also insert their favourite bus stops to the front page in order to make the ease of use even better!
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Public bike sharing system
Developing a bike sharing system has been one of the mobility priorities of the City of Tartu. A respective feasibility analysis was carried out in 2014 and a business model was developed based on the findings. It is expected that the bike sharing system will bring about decreased environmental problems (noise, air quality), parking issues and problems with traffic intensity. Bike sharing is considered a part of the public transport system of the City of Tartu. The system will be designed as an electric bike sharing system and will be mainly targeted to people who need to travel ca. 2-5 km to work, school, home etc.
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Submitting tax declaration online
Starting from 2000 Estonians can submit their annual tax declaration online. The data is prefilled, as the data from the companies monthly reports are re-used. So it takes less than 5 minutes to complete the declaration online.
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Country-wide electrical vehicles charging grid
Estonia is the first country in the world constructing a charging network of electric cars. In 2012 country wide electrical vehicles charging grid was launched, currently including 167 public charging stations nationally. It is still the biggest national charging grid in Europe. In Tartu 11 public charging stations are available. As the usage of those stations is active in most of Estonia, it looks citizens of Tartu are the most active electric vehicle users in Estonia.
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Distant reading of electricity consumption
In 2016 Estonia finalized building of the distant reading system of electricity consumption. Remote meter reading means that your meters will automatically send data on how much electricity you consume to the network operator so that you no longer have to submit your meter readings yourself at regular intervals. Remotely read meters measure electricity consumption by the hour.
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Participative budgeting
Tartu introduced participative budgeting in 2013. Citizens can offer the ideas and vote for them to be financed from the city budget - every year 2% of city budget has been given for the citizens to decide. Secure online voting system is used and only citizens of Tartu can participate.
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City single help number 1789 and crowdsourcing approach
In 2004 Tartu City introduced single help number 1789. This phone number provides you answers for all city-related questions. Also globally pioneering crowdsourcing approach was introduced - citizens are encouraged to call, SMS, email any time and report about the non-working street lights, broken park benches, holes in the streets, etc. All complains and messages are organized and forwarded to the service providers, service providers their performance is monitored against the service level agreements.
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Internet voting in local elections
In 2005 Estonia introduced the first Internet voting in the elections with binding results. It was first used in the local elections and later expanded to the general and European Parliament elections. Secure infrastructure of the Estonian ID-card is utilized also for the election purposes. Tartu has been the leader of the elections innovation also by building voting stations in the shopping centers. After successful tests in 2012 elections, in 2017 the polling stations were set up already in many shopping centers . As convenient location for the citizens it has supported equal access to the polling stations and participation in the elections.
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Paperless government
From 2003 Tartu City Administration is operating only in the paperless mode on ID-card or mobile-ID signatures, probably as the first city in the world. All documents are created, edited, forwarded, accepted and stored in the digital format. From 2007 Tartu City Administration is using only the digital signature for the signing of the documents. As the Estonian secure digital signature (trusted by the Government) is broadly used by citizens and businesses as standard solution, city administration can easily accept and share digitally signed documents.
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Mobile parking
As the first city in the world, Tartu introduced mobile parking payments in 2000. Mobile parking is the most convenient way to park. It allows you to pay for parking with your cell phone. You do not need to buy a parking ticket, instead you can park by sending an SMS, making a call or using the mobile app. Extending your parking session is also easy.
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Public transport card system – The Green Card
The Green Card (Ühiskaart or Roheline kaart for Estonians) is a contactless travelcard which can be used all across Estonian cities. All your tickets safely and conveniently on one card. See more information here.
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Public Events Management Portal AKIS
AKIS is a web-based nation-wide information system for managing public events, sports events, and to handle a fireworks permit applications and issueing process. This is a public portal where all the citizens can receive information about the public events taking place at their local area. Meetings Management Portal allows to integrate calendar and GIS information to avoid overlapping events in the same area.
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Park&Ride
Park and Ride Tallinn is the environmental solution for your city!
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3D Virtual old town Tallinn
Explore the 3D Medieval Old Town Tallinn (UNESCO heritage) http://3d.tallinn.ee/home_eng.html and 360.tallinn.ee
This is the gateway to No1 tourist attraction in your medivial city!
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Car Parking Management Platform
Mobile Parking is a convenient system that lets drivers pay for their city parking using their mobile phones.
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Floud
Floud is an Internet of Things (IoT) system consisting of ultra-low-cost devices which are designed to provide extensive and real-time data collection on the status of a flood in urban areas.
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Testbed for smart infrastructure and campus projects
Tallinn Science Park Tehnopol mission is to support the startups and growing technology companies with the main focus on ICT, Health-tech and Green-tech.
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EyeVi - virtual eye
EyeVi is a web-based application that allows its users to observe city environment, perform measurements, collect data and share information without leaving the office.
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Guide-U
Guide-U is a clever combination of a mobile tourist guide and browser-based administrative module for managing the content operatively.
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Civil Warning and Safety Application
How to send instantly a warning or information about a need to evacuate a certain area to as many people as needed? How to reach all mobile phones without any restrictions like prepaid or roaming phones? How to locate an emergency caller within seconds and place the location visually on the map? The answer is to use Civil Warning and Safety Application.
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Urban Planning Application
A solution for city and transportation planning that integrates citizen experience with state-of-the-art data handling, helping to see the reasons behind more or less obvious problems and bottlenecks in the urban space.
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