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Pully’s approach is useful to illustrate as it is a sound start towards eventual implementation of a smart
city platform. Certain projects that have been successfully launched have provided components
that could be rolled into a future city-wide platform. An example is the digital mobility observatory
project that saw Pully partner with Swisscom, a Swiss telecommunications operator, on a Big Data
project. Using visualization of the traces left by mobile phones on Swisscom antennas, the project
quantified and measured the attractiveness of Pully’s city centre to:
• Determine where Pully should improve in terms of its infrastructures, such as roads, bus lines,
and public squares.
• Acquire the basic information for the sizing of the future infrastructure.
• Measure the return on investment (ROI) after the construction of new infrastructures.
Other projects that have been developed in the fields of cyber-administration and open-source
software to manage public infrastructures, digitalization in the social service sector, etc. could also
contribute to or be integrated with a smart city platform in the future (see Figure 11).
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