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Augmented Reality Lenses for Smart City Data: The Case of Building Permits

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While open government data published by central and local authorities worldwide is considered to be the new oil that fuels society, it is only truly useful when it is processed, interlinked and used in applications to increase the smartness of the environment. It is also the case of building permits, a well-regarded dataset in every city, and which we put to good use in a mobile augmented reality application described in this paper, showing how it can be made useful for citizens and for the local authorities also.

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Acknowledgments

The authors thank Cristian Vat for implementing the heatmap with building permits at the HackTM 2015 event and, in this way, providing the crawled data from the City Hall website, which we used to feed up the augmented reality application that we presented in this paper.

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  1. Communications Department, Politehnica University of Timisoara, Piata Victoriei 2, 300006, Timisoara, Romania

    Silviu Vert & Radu Vasiu

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  1. DEI/FCT, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Baixo Mondego, Portugal

    Álvaro Rocha

  2. Nova IMS, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

    Ana Maria Correia

  3. College of Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA

    Hojjat Adeli

  4. DSI/EEUM, Universidade do Minho, Guimarães, Portugal

    Luís Paulo Reis

  5. DIMES, Università della Calabria, Arcavacata di Rende, Italy

    Sandra Costanzo

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Vert, S., Vasiu, R. (2017). Augmented Reality Lenses for Smart City Data: The Case of Building Permits. In: Rocha, Á., Correia, A., Adeli, H., Reis, L., Costanzo, S. (eds) Recent Advances in Information Systems and Technologies. WorldCIST 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 569. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56535-4_53

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