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Piezoelectric Flooring Share Commuting = Energy PiezoApp: Piezoelectric Flooring Share Distance Energy 1.9 km 2.6watts Total Nearest! Energy PieZone Topic: Explore how citizens, establishments and urban What I learned: Piezoelectric applications can serve as an Where: Oslo, Norway! streets can integrate Piezoelectric Flooring and innovative way to generate electricity with the everyday Why Oslo, Norway? Being the country’s largest city, Oslo complimentary PiezApp to produce and monitor energy movements of the communal population. This platform has the largest public transportation system in Norway. This creation and expenditures. The combined technologies track would create wonderful data points on traffic congestion, system, called Ruter, includes Oslo Metro, the Oslo how much energy has been captured to the dedicated grids traffic flows, best routes and identifying peak hours of Tramway, the Oslo Commuter Rail, the city regional bus and how much energy each individual has produced in the traffic in certain areas in Oslo, Norway. ! system, and a ferry system for the islands of Akershus cycle of their day, week, year, lifetime. This would be ! County as well as for Germany and Denmark. Oslo’s designed as such:! Through the platform, opportunities for civic engagement transportation system is one of the the most comprehensive, ! and sustainability of urban spaces, which use the effective, and best integrated systems in Europe. With a. Developing a system and infrastructure where piezoelectric flooring (i.e. Dance Halls and Dense Transit multiple forms of transportation at both the urban and Piezoelectric Flooring can be installed throughout high Stations). The device could serve as monitoring and metropolitan level, the system is never over capacity, and pedestrian and vehicle traffic zones in urban analytical device to secure transparency, gathering data when combined with high number of stops it allows for a communities.! points to increase the user experience of commuting. very efficient and effective system.! ! Information received could be accessed through mobile and ! b. Interlinking data PiezApp with the user will allow each desktop devices via PiezApp and a web based server. ! Within this system pedestrians are moving throughout the individual to track,analyze and gain rebates and rewards ! network and have the potential to generate energy to a local for their participation in creating electricity. (Speak with ! grid to support the transportation systems energy needs local community planners to create rebate/reward along with lower energy consumption and prices. Walking system)! and cycling culture is omnipresent in Oslo. If it is available ! and logical,many Norwegians will use their bicycles to c. An interactive map and grid would show where navigate Oslo. This use of walking and cycling is Piezoelectric flooring is placed throughout the perpetuated and encouraged by the city’s heavy investment community. Once user (through Pedestrian activities or in pedestrian and cycling lanes and stoplights, as well as motor vehicle) is engaged with flooring, the PiezApp rules of the road that give pedestrians and cyclist the right begins to calculate and log energy produced and which of way in almost all cases.! grid the energy is being captured. Rewards systems and ! rebates can be calculated on a month to month basis, based on the energy created to the communal grid. ! ! PiezApp: Should be able to locate and synchronize with the user, measuring distances, time and energy created. This product would be a great system to integrate energy generating opportunities along with encourage public transport and pedestrian activity. Who: For the development of the project I engaged How:! Westerdahl School of Design in Oslo and the Oslo School of ! Architecture to brainstorm and conceptualize the feasibility A. Data Analysis: As of March 24, 2014 The Norwegian and design of the project. From these meetings I identified Public Roads Administration (NPRA) has selected IBM to the demand and process of developing Piezoelectric design, build and deliver a new centralized road system Flooring through the urban area. With the design team there across Norway. Gathering GIS data. Being able to harness was initial conversations on usability and interaction of the and process big data and analytics, along with mobile data. Piezoelectric plates: ! It would be developed through capturing and analyzing Big ! Data related to energy consumption, energy creation and ! traffic flows, creating a seamless user experience between ! physical spaces and technology. The PiezApp will serve as ! data capture and predictability platform, that will asset ! unmaking improvements and increased efficiency of ! project.! ! ! ! B. Design: The design of the project has two components; ! the physical space with the integrated Piezoelectric Flooring ! and the mobil PiezApp. Through information gathered the ! design and the performance of these combined technologies ! should be structured as follows. ! ! ! I also engaged the local urban planning offices within Oslo Physical Space:! to identify spaces, and locations which could be used to ! integrate Piezoelectric Flooring. The main goal from these a. Piezoelectric Flooring will directly integrated into conversations was to identify how the system would work current high-traffic areas and road ways. Carrying a and be integrated into the current urban development human-centered design, where the flooring is within the city of Oslo. Also, identifying materials and comfortable and aesthetically pleasing. ! community engagement across the platform. ! b. Grids will be placed in seamless pockets of natural ! landscape and current building structures! Understanding the flow of traffic, assisted in design stages. ! This allowed designers and architects to strategize over best PiezApp: ! installations and models which could be implemented. For ! the App developers it identified the structure of the a. Base Map: Similar to GoogleMap, the PiezApp map PiezApp and how it would seamlessly work with the would identify where Piezones are located.! Piezoelectric Flooring. b. Activate and indicate how much electricity has been generated c. Interactive Map: This map would give indicators on how f. Integrated City System: The City Agency responsible for C. Challenge: The largest hurdle for this product will be to much energy is being generated from the local this project would receive first hand information concerning gain clearance from the municipality in Oslo to integrate the surroundings and allow the user to cash in on rebates and energy production and storage within their public network. Piezoelectric Flooring in urban spaces. Along with finding or save points for different rewards. You can also, transfer They would also be able to have access to analytics effect places to put storage units and infrastructural design. ! your credits to someone else for rebates/rewards. Send concerning traffic flows, on mobile devices through a cloud ! them as gifts, invitations and social media exchanges. ! based platform. ! An additional challenge will be synchronize and create the ! ! PiezApp, so it’s fully functional and real time with users. The user will be able to identify their usage over time and My conclusion is that the Piezoelectric Flooring and Being able to locate space and interaction with each archive steps and paths taken in their daily commute. ! PiezApp has the potential to work seamlessly to provide Piezoelectric Flooring Zone, could facilitate a challenge. ! ! sustainable energy throughout the city of Oslo, Norway. To ! d. If their were alternate routes or business who have not be successful, the city would have to be actively involved in Additional Challenges-! met their energy needs, they can send out adds through the integrating the Piezoelectric Flooring throughout high- ! app, that are relative to pedestrians in the vicinity to stop by traffic urban areas in Oslo. Subsequently , marketing the Being able to Identify:! and contribute to their localized grid. Participants can use locations and advantages of utilizing the PiezApp and ! this approach to market their business along with create a support system. ! • User Experience! sustainable energy balance within their business.! ! • Capturing and Analyzing Data! ! A PiezApp team would have to be assembled to develop • Creating optimized systems! e. The app would be able to have sharing capabilities, for and mange the app, making sure the user experience and • Generating Civic engagement! the social animals. Party goers can send tagged pictures and coordination with the energy companies is efficient and • Predicting system upgrades and expansion! content with their most recent energy contribution and post transparent. ! them to social media sites or amongst friends and/or ! family. ! ! !.
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