Research Blog

This is a space for FinEst Centre's researchers to share their recent publications and comments.

Apr 8
2 min

Are communication skills of smart city programmers just a separate thing?

Every time we plan and develop new smart city services or larger systems, programmers and several middle persons are needed. In case they...

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Openly available dataset - Synthetic population of the city of Tallinn

serio.agriesti

Feb 21
2 min

Openly available dataset - Synthetic population of the city of Tallinn

In this post we share the work carried out in modeling a statistically sound equivalent of the Tallinn population. The dataset includes...

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Urban Open Platform for Borderless Smart Cities

Feb 7
2 min

Smart City Governance

Urban Open Platform for Borderless Smart Cities

Cities generate countless amount of data via sensors installed to buildings, roads, bridges, channels, intersections etc. Monitoring is...

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Public autonomous transport is designed on user experience in the Baltics

mauro.bellone

Jan 7
2 min

Smart Mobility

Public autonomous transport is designed on user experience in the Baltics

Autonomous solutions for transportation are emerging worldwide, and one of the sectors that will benefit the most from these solutions is...

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The Role of Urban Lighting in Sustainability

Dmitrii Ingi

Dec 17, 2021
3 min

Built Environment

The Role of Urban Lighting in Sustainability

The role which outdoor lighting plays in our modern 24/7-world cannot be underestimated. To the date, there are plenty of research...

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What five research streams of FinEst Twins have published

Kalle Toiskallio

Dec 16, 2021
2 min

Built Environment

What five research streams of FinEst Twins have published

During two first years (11/2019 - 11/2021) of Finest Twins project, the number of (funded) researchers have grown from about 60 to about...

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Kalle Toiskallio

Nov 9, 2021
1 min

Teaming Papers

Will the real research centres of smart city please stand up?

Institutionalising smart city research and innovation: from fuzzy definitions to real-life experiments. (Written by Ralf-Martin Soe,...

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Kalle Toiskallio

Oct 27, 2021
1 min

Spread your research results here!

This Research Blog is a great new tool for communicating your smart city research to a wider audience, for example urban developers in...

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Matti Hämäläinen

Oct 27, 2021
2 min

Teaming Papers

Diversity and forms of collaboration

Co-creation is completely misunderstood, and the term is inappropriately misused to refer to things that are not co-creation. For this...

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