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The novelty of CityWatcher approach is that we make not only a text or photo
report, but also produce a video fragment that has been recorded while driving as a
main source. Secondly, voice recognition with later automatic ontological processing
for
ltering, aggregating and redirecting reports is also a step ahead. Thirdly, City-
Watcher is designed to be maintained and administered by city management services to
become an effective instrument of gathering important information about the life in a
smart city.
3 CityWatcher Concepts
As it was already mentioned, in this paper we propose, develop, discuss and evaluate a
new scenario for the
“
”
Android-based app. The application of CityWat-
cher for searching video clips with road accidents on smartphones and is discussed in
[
20
]. This paper focuses on driver-initiated alerts which are communicated to city
authorities along with relevant video clips and uploaded to the OpenIoT middleware
platform which is hosted by the cloud. The cloud could be managed and run by city
administration on any private or public cloud, e.g. Amazon EC2 [
21
].
ICOs owner can be not only passive carriers of a camera. If a VMSC is a smart-
phone application, it is possible to add a special feature, which allows the user to push
information to a specialized center, when the user notices something important. Let
CityWatcher
s
consider one more scenario as illustrated in Fig.
2
. The user is driving a car, when he/
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