Dashboard Info: The Life of Antwerp

This dashboard called "The Life of Antwerp" has been designed to provide an overview to the city officials about the main trends of the city in terms of people flow and usage. These specific views are taken from the data coming from the Mobile App "Antwerp in a Snap", and potentially from PAX counters intalled in the SmartZone.  The dashboad has been produced by Snap4City team, you can find more and more information on Https//www.snap4city.org 

Dashboard link: https://www.snap4city.org/dashboardSmartCity/view/index.php?iddasboard=MTcwNg==

 

On the left you can select to see on cenrtal view (maps or other kind of representaitons):

• Shopping: POI: PINs about the location of shopping centers around your position. On the left of the map are reported the details about each point of interest and the distance from your position.

• Wine and Food POI: PINs about the location of wine and food around your position. On the left of the map are reported the details about each point of interest and the distance from your position.

• Discovery Antwerp: allows to select all the POIs around you, the suggested POIs around you or the last recommendations using the pop up on the map.

• Points of Interest: all point of interests in the main area of Antwerp (see below)

• 3D view POI: a ciew of Antwerp map with the possibility to visualize select values of sensors or of POI by using the widget on the top left (see below).
• Routing on Antwerp: MicroApplication to perform the routing in the Antwerp area (see below).

• Line of Transport: MicroApplication showing the public transport stops, time tables and paths (if any). The upper button is to search stops around your position (see below).

• Public Transport: PINs about the location of bus/tram stops around your position. On the left of the map are reported the details about each bus stop, including the paths, the courses and the time schedule

• Safe On Bike: an heatmap showing like/dislike of a specific point in a cycling path, in green the most appreciated points/ areas.

• Tunnel and Ferry: a view of the status of the St. Anna Tunnel, Kennedy Tunne, and of St. Anna Ferry in Antwerp.
• Twitter Vigilance: The trends of Tweets for the search related to the channel Antwerp, which is monitoring a large number of users posts, hashtags, and keywords. It’s possible to select the period (from – to). This data comes from Twitter Vigilance Service of DISIT Lab Https://www.disit.org/tv a detailed of produced trends may allow to understand the moods of the city. The data are updated daily  and for the last day, hourly. 
• Twitter Vig. Real Time: The trends of Tweets for the search related to the channel Antwerp, which is monitoring a large number of users posts, hashtags, and keywords.. This data comes from Twitter Vigilance Service of DISIT Lab: Https://www.disit.org/rttv. a detailed of produced trends may allow to understand the moods of the city. The data are updated very 5 minutes.  It is possible from that page to perform the NLP (Natural Language Processing) analysis, and also perform the Sentiment Analysis of the collected tweets. This approach permits to monitor the moods of the events in the city in real time. 
• Air Quality: A view of Air Quality which includes data and heatmaps of several kinds:
  
  • Noise: value and real time heatmap of noise levels in the area. The heatmap is upded every 2 hours. On the Heatmap Controls widget: the animated values of the entire 24 hours are available, as well as with "Prev" button the past heatmaps.   
  • PM10: value and real time heatmap of pollutant levels in air in terms of PM₁₀ (measured in µg/m³) particles in the area. The heatmap is updedd every 2 hours. On the Heatmap Controls widget: the animated values of the entire 24 hours are available, as well as with "Prev" button the past heatmaps.   
  • PM2.5: value and real time heatmap of pollutant levels in air in terms of PM_2.5 (measured in µg/m³) particles in the area. The heatmap is upded every 2 hours. On the Heatmap Controls widget: the animated values of the entire 24 hours are available, as well as with "Prev" button the past heatmaps.   
  • NO2: value and real time heatmap of pollutant levels in air in terms of nitrogen dioxide (NO₂ measured in µg/m³) in the area. The heatmap is upded every 2 hours. On the Heatmap Controls widget: the animated values of the entire 24 hours are available, as well as with "Prev" button the past heatmaps.   
  • SO2 heatmap: real time heatmap of pollutant levels in air in terms of sulphur dioxide (SO₂ measured  in µg/m³) particles in the area. The map is upgraded every 2 hours.
  • O3 heatmap: real time heatmap of pollutant levels in air in terms of ground-level ozone (O₃ measured in µg/m³) in the area. The map is upgraded every 2 hours .
  • EAQI: value and real time heatmap of European Air Quality Index. The resulting index from 1 to 5 indicate the quality of air. On the Heatmap Controls widget: the animated values of the entire 24 hours are available, as well as with "Prev" button the past heatmaps.   
  • (i) information about Air Quality parameters

• Weather: A view of Air Quality which includes data and heatmaps of several kinds:

  • Air Temperature heatmap:  real time heatmap of the air temperature in the Antwerp area. The map is upgraded every 2 hours.

  • Humidity Heatmap: real time heatmap of the air humidity in the Antwerp area. The map is upgraded every 2 hours. 

• Origin Dest. Matrix: clicking on points in the map is possible to see the most probably incoming or outcoming flows from that point to the mostly uised destination points in the time slot. This means that the tool allows to perform an analysis of the people movements in the area (see below). The tool may be used to perform Inflow and Outflow analysis on the basis of the data collected from the "Antwerp in Snap" mobile application. By the tool, it is possible to select the time slots, the modality of showing the data, etc. The tool allows you to select the zoom at which you can do the analysis. 

• Typical Trajectories: visualization of typical trajectories per hour in the Antwerp area (see below). The trajectories are clustered together to extract for comulation the most relevant and freequently used paths. The tool allows you to select the zoom at which you can do the analysis. 

• Forum Discussion: a Forum for collecting comments, requests to improve and discussion open among the users of the dashboard.

 

On the Map, several information may appear:

• PINs about POI where you can select a PIN to see information on a new information window on the left of the map

  • Name

  • Details

  • Description

  • "Around Here" botton to discover all POI around the PIN selected

  • Above the "Around Here" botton, three icons can be selected:

    • The first icon where you can upload images 

    • The second icon where you can add the POI on your favorites

    • The third icon to open the navigator with the path from your position to the POI  

• PINs about sensors where you can select a PIN to see information on the left of the map

  • Details

  • Description

  • Real Time data: clicking on the PIN is possible to monitor the real time measure related to that sensor

• Origin Destination Matrix Information widget on the left of the map

  • The tool allows to define the resolution at which you can see the data, 

  • Grid (on/off)

  • Flows: inflow and outflow

  • Hour: to select a specific time slot or for the whole  day

  • OD Matrix: open the matrix in a new tab. The flow can be ordered by cluster, frequency or name

  • Radius (km)

• Typical Trajectories widget positioned at the top right of the map

  • The tool allows to define the resolution at which you can see the data, 

  • Radius: the slider that can be used to correct the radius of the point in the map

  • Max Opacity: the slider that can be used to correct the opacity of the point in the map

  • Hour: to select a specific hour

• 3D view POI menu positioned at the top left of the map that allows to:

  • select a Services Category between Regular Services, Tranversal Services or 3D Data

  • select the number of results that can be viewed

  • select the Search Range 

  • It is also possible to program the automated visualization of real time data value as solid growing from the city.

• The Routing on Antwerp selector appears on the top of the map where you can select:

  •  the type of transportations mean among car, and on foot (choosing between shortest path or quiet path)

  • departure date and time

  • the starting point (that is your position of default)

  • the ending point

• Line of Transport selector where you can:

  • search stops around you

  • search stops by address/name and city

  • search stops by agency

• Points of Interest menu positioned at the top left of the map that allows to:

  • select the position of a selected bus clicking with the Public Transport tab

  • compute a POIs search by text using the Text Search tab

  • select the municipality with the Municipality tab

  • compute a POIs using the address with the Address Search tab

  • select an event using the Event tab and selecting a specific time interval (day, week, month)

 

The data of this dashboard have been collected by Snap4City according to the PCP lanched by Select4Cities project. 

The data sources used for creating this dashboard are listed in the following web pages:
Helsinki: https://www.snap4city.org/drupal/node/364
Antwerp: https://www.snap4city.org/drupal/node/363

European Commission Affiliation Select4Cities project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 688196. Please note that this website represents the view of Snap4City, with the support of Select4Cities project and that the Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.