{"id":15962,"date":"2015-12-15T12:03:24","date_gmt":"2015-12-15T17:03:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/systems\/?p=15962"},"modified":"2022-01-24T18:24:22","modified_gmt":"2022-01-24T23:24:22","slug":"ecese-student-team-winners-ieeeibm-smarter-planet-competition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/ecese-student-team-winners-ieeeibm-smarter-planet-competition\/","title":{"rendered":"CISE-Led Project Nets 2nd Place in IBM\/IEEE Smarter Planet Competition"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_35422\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-35422\" style=\"width: 430px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/cise\/files\/2014\/12\/StreetBumbGraphic-1024x512-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"420\" height=\"210\" class=\"wp-image-35422 size-full\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-35422\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Screenshots of the Street Bump application<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>As part of a multifaceted collaboration to create technology to solve urban problems, the City of Boston and a Boston University-led research team developed an iPhone app, Street Bump, to upgrade management of local road repairs. Now IBM and IEEE have recognized Street Bump as a significant contribution to Boston, awarding its developers the second place prize in the \u201cIBM Students for a Smarter Planet\/IEEE Smarter Planet Challenge: Student Projects Changing the World\u201d competition.<\/p>\n<p>The team\u2019s project, \u201cStreet Bumps and Big Data Analytics: Crowdsourcing Our Way to Better Roads,\u201d was honored for demonstrating engineering expertise and a commitment to improving the world. Advised by<span>\u00a0<\/span><strong>Professor<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/profile\/christos-cassandras\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Christos Cassandras<span>\u00a0<\/span><\/strong><\/a><strong>(ECE, SE)<\/strong><span>\u00a0<\/span>and<span>\u00a0<\/span><strong>Professor<span>\u00a0<\/span>Yannis Paschalid<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/cise\/profile\/ioannis-paschalidis\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">is<\/a><span>\u00a0<\/span>(ECE, SE, BME)<\/strong>, the team included graduate students Theodora Brisimi (ECE), Yue Zhang (SE), Wuyang Dai (ECE), Setareh Ariafar (SE) and Nicholas Baladis (MIT). All BU researchers are affiliated with the<span>\u00a0<\/span>Center for Information and Systems Engineering<span>\u00a0<\/span>(CISE).<\/p>\n<p>Used by city employees and citizens, Street Bump was designed to facilitate crowdsourcing as a means of collecting relevant road condition data. The app leverages the iPhone\u2019s accelerometer to detect road bumps sensed during a trip, transmitting the data to the City of Boston, where it is used to alert repair crews of road damage. The algorithms developed by the BU-led team analyze the data received by the City and classify the detected bumps as \u201cactionable\u201d or \u201cnon-actionable.\u201d Severe bumps like potholes are actionable and can be prioritized in scheduling repairs. The team collaborated with The City of Boston\u2019s Office of<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.boston.gov\/departments\/new-urban-mechanics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">New Urban Mechanics<\/a>, which provided actual data from the City\u2019s servers.<\/p>\n<p>Another BU-based app guided by Cassandras,<span>\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/codes\/research\/smartparking\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Smart Parking<\/a>, won second place in the same competition in 2011.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of a multifaceted collaboration to create technology to solve urban problems, the City of Boston and a Boston University-led research team developed an iPhone app, Street Bump, to upgrade management of local road repairs. 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