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Smart Places Ideas Board
Emerging technology provides many opportunities and can help us do so much.
How do you think we could use digital technology to help you and those you care about?
Have you seen anything elsewhere that could benefit people and communities locally?
Please feel free to share your ideas on how technology could help you in your daily life.
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D87
3 years ago
Centralised Transport App for BCP area
Instead of using, yellow buses, more buses, southwest trains apps. A centralised app, where you buy a daily ticket, weekly, monthly ticket that you can use across, all local transport, it also has an option where you can get directions like google maps. So for example a trip from Christchurch to Poole, you buy a ticket that you can use multiple times within a specific amount of time, and for example you might use a yellow bus to get to bournemouth, then a more bus to poole. But it would be covered under one ticket and in one app. You can also plan your route in the app, with a route map, and it tells of delays etc.Letsbeat2050
3 years ago
Cycle app
A BCP specific cycling app (London has/had one) which plots cycle journeys more accurately allow you to pick quickest route, flattest route or less busy route, also flagging cycle racks, public pumps and tool stations. Also allows businesses to flag that they can help you with a flat tyre etc.
Letsbeat2050
3 years ago
Shop local
An app/website to allow local sellers to add their products - registered BCP businesses only. Hopefully it will create a one stop shop for local products and increase visibility of up and coming businesses.
B-Cool
3 years ago
An alarm button for elderly, vulnerable to access help.
An alarm (“Lifeline”) for elderly, vulnerable to access help. eg my late mother had a stroke, & fortunately managed to press a button on the ‘chain’ she wore before she fell unconscious. The alarm rang through to a council dept operating 24/7. The council responded quickly and as a result she was taken to hospital. Without the alarm she would have died! Also a gadget that can call to check daily, and/or sense whether someone is moving around and OK.SG93
3 years ago
One place for reporting issues
One app or web page where you can report multiple issues and track them. This would be linked to the USRN/UPRN to allow works to be coordinated in the council. Devon County Council have a great example of this here: https://www.devon.gov.uk/roadsandtransport/report-a-problem/ and a case study has been done by GeoPlace here: https://www.geoplace.co.uk/case-studies/size-matters Another great example is Conwy in Wales who have street lighting data available publicly to see who manages it and be able to report faults https://lighting.reporting.conwy.gov.uk/en Clearly Streets data can be incorporated to Smart Structures to streamline service management.empirestate2021
3 years ago
Healthcare on the High Street
Empty shops/disused premises could be converted into outpatient clinics on the high street. This would make use of vacant premises and drive footfall to the high street for other shops/restaurants/cafes in the area. It would also result in fewer patients heading to the main hospital sites at Bournemouth and Poole with their parking issues.
sweep100
3 years ago
Car park availability and how full or busy to an app in real time this might stop some from venturing out in very busy times freeing up road
Car Park App
Miffington
3 years ago
One app to do most things
An app that allows the location-based reporting of abandoned cars, illegal parking, fly tipping, graffiti, anti social behaviour, fallen trees, major potholes, damaged council property etc. all in one place. This could just be one feature of an all-encompassing 'My BCP' app into which you might also input your residential postcode and get an up-to-date schedule for your bin collection, or be able to pinpoint the nearest recycling centre to your location, along with its specific restrictions. Another feature of this app would include the beach check and the road congestion check suggested below. It could also have a calendar of events happening in your area, or a google-like map that shows drop-points and dates for events upcoming in the area. It's expensive and ambitious, but I think it fits the Smartplaces idea. It's not flashy, but it's exactly the kind of thing that (if done well) your community of residents would genuinely want and could use. It could ultimately save the council money if it streamlined the flow of information between the public and the council, with issues reported directly to the correct member of a department without a long chain, and with BCP news and updates posted directly to the app.
GordieK
3 years ago
Free high speed public internet which works across the entire borough.
Without this in situ access to data is limited. If you don’t do this it’s a waste of time
Talbot
3 years ago
turnstiles in public toilets which are coin operated. You pay £1 to use the facility and you get a receipt which you can redeem in shops
Les in BH7
3 years ago
A smartphone App for people living alone. If they fail to respond to prompts at set times it texts or calls to emergency contacts list.
It could also respond to a voice command such as "Help Me - call my emergency numbers". Another feature could be to request a reponse if no motion has been detected during a specified period or an apparent fall. The number and timing of prompts or checks should be configurable for each individual's lifestyle.
Weekend Rouler
3 years ago
Road version of the beach App - directs cars from busy congested roads to make use of underused infrastructure.
GC
3 years ago
AI powered CCTV litter dropping identification - as showcased in Margate.