{"id":17,"date":"2016-12-27T12:24:58","date_gmt":"2016-12-27T12:24:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/univercities.ai\/?page_id=17"},"modified":"2017-03-13T07:02:29","modified_gmt":"2017-03-13T07:02:29","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.univercities.ai\/?page_id=17","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 18.0pt 0cm;\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\">UniverCities<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"apple-converted-space\"><span lang=\"EN-US\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\">is a new company founded in Eindhoven, Netherlands with a KvK number 66245931. It provides an autonomous on-line service in building and managing International Open Innovation 2.0 (IOI 2.0) for Urban and Regional planning. The service brings to the existing conventional model of city planning and management, a new tool which facilitates in the most cost-effective manner, the relevant use of big data available from publically open and proprietary data, in a combination with networked collective intelligence from urban and regional planning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 18.0pt 0cm;\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Vision<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 18.0pt 0cm;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">UniverCities will enable connected cities that provide intelligent, agile to climate, healthy and happy places, with economic prosperity, social balance and inclusiveness for all inhabitants.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 18.0pt 0cm;\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Mission<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 18.0pt 0cm;\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">UniverCities\u2019 mission is by using cutting-edge technology to accelerate the emerging paradigm shift in urban &amp; territorial planning, throughout innovating new linkages between science, society, industry\/businesses and policy. This is\u00a0achieved by creating International Open Innovation 2.0 which will connect cities\u2019 (in\/out) flows (goods, services, finance, people and data) in a virtual setting.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 18.0pt 0cm;\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">The business focus:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"apple-converted-space\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">The insights offered by our service are presented in a compatible format to be merged and\/or combined with big data stabilized from ubiquitous and heterogeneous sensing, thus leading to better informed, valorized and evidence-based decision-making processes for planning strategies and design.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 18.0pt 0cm;\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">The service focus:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"apple-converted-space\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">The service is delivered via web based ICT platform that by the use of AI algorithms processes datasets and annotates data available from Urban (Data) Platforms. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 18.0pt 0cm;\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">How:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"apple-converted-space\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">The platform is focused on bringing intelligence in Smart Cities by building correlation and causal relationship of events in urban settings to assist urban decision-making processes, planning strategies and designs. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"background: white; margin: 0cm 0cm 18.0pt 0cm;\"><strong><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">Why:<\/span><\/strong><span class=\"apple-converted-space\"><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span lang=\"EN-US\" style=\"font-family: 'Helvetica',sans-serif; color: #333333;\">The system is based on cutting-edge AI technology which uses artificial cognitive functions in reasoning, knowledge, planning, learning and problem solving techniques, to produce significant correlations and causal relationships to achieve evidence-based and constructive decisions, strategies and designs in urban and regional planning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; UniverCities\u00a0is a new company founded in Eindhoven, Netherlands with a KvK number 66245931. It provides an autonomous on-line service in building and managing International Open Innovation 2.0 (IOI 2.0) for Urban and Regional planning. 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