Towards Smart Cities for Tourism: the POLIS-EYE Project

Alessandro Seravalli, Mariaelena Busani, Simone Venturi, Arianna Brutti, Carlo Petrovich, Angelo Frascella, Fabrizio Paolucci, Marco Di Felice, Michele Lombardi, Elena Bellodi, Riccardo Zese, Francesco Bertasi, Elia Balugani, Alket Cecaj, Rita Gamberini, Marco Mamei, Marco Picone

Abstract: Novel and widespread ICT and Internet of Things (IoT) technology can provide fine-grained real-time information to the tourist sector, both to support the demand side (tourists) and the supply side (managers and organizers). We present the POLIS-EYE project that aims to build decision-support systems helping tourist-managers to organize and optimize policies and resources. In particular, we focus on a service to monitor and forecast people presence in tourist areas by combining heterogeneous datasets with a special focus on data collected from the mobile phone network.