IoTa project offers a training and use case definition to leverage IoT technologies in Urban Mobility initiatives.
Description
IoTa will offer complete training on Internet of Things (IoT) systems and technologies to whole EIT-UM communities, start-ups, young talents, IoT companies, business creation units, Digital Innovation Hubs (DIHs) and future European DIHs. We will provide a complementary, replicable and scalable convenient set of both online and face-to-face educational materials. Moreover, our approach goes one step further of most training programmes by proposing a unique blend of online training – addressed to cities, industry, and R&D organisations – combined with practical, hands-on identification and analysis of specific use cases by engaged stakeholders, addressing their specific challenges, and early drafting potential applications in the context of urban mobility.
The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to networks of technologically enabled physical objects that can communicate with each other to exchange data and interact with their external surroundings. This allows remote access and control of smart devices which has been successfully used by local governments to improve management of urban mobility issues such as waste collection, tracking of goods, and multimodal transportation.
To maximise its potential, a less technical and business-oriented approach is required. To this end, the IoTa Competence Hub is creating and conducting an online training programme that fosters lateral thinking, focuses on how to achieve a high return on investment on IoT initiatives, and challenges participants to understand in greater depth how IoT processes and systems work.
