Flood-PREPARED: Predicting Rainfall Events by Physical Analytics of REaltime Data
Lead Research Organisation:
Newcastle University
Department Name: Sch of Engineering
Abstract
Flood-PREPARED will develop an international leading capability for real-time surface water flood risk and impacts analysis for cities. Our vision is to provide the tools and methods that allow cities to become proactive, rather than be reactive, to managing surface water flooding
This will be achieved by developing new physical analytical methods that integrate advanced urban flood hazard models with statistical analytics of big data from multiple real-time data-feeds that describe the current state and condition of the city in terms of surface water flood risk and impacts. By coupling physically-based modelling and statistical analytics, decision makers will be provided with improved real-time predictions of surface water flooding to assist in flood mitigation at a range of governance scales; from the individual site through to national emergency and response. This vision will be delivered via five interrelated work packages:
Work package 1 will develop the data management platforms required for capturing, managing and making available the wide variety of real-time data that will be utilised, including real-time weather radar, environmental weather station data feeds, sewer telemetry gauging, CCTV data and traffic congestion data. Data comes from Newcastle's £1.5m Urban Observatory that includes hundreds of pervasive environmental sensors that currently record ~1million observations per day.
Work package 2 will employ this data within a new hydrodynamic surface water flood model that employs statistical data assimilation and modelling for improved real-time calibration and parameterisation for surface water flooding. The outputs of the hydrodynamic surface water flood model will be used in work package 3 to parameterise real-time impacts analysis. Using real-time data feeds such as CCTV, social media, traffic monitoring, new predictive models of how impacts evolve and cascade within cities will be developed for improved response and mitigation.
Work package 4 will develop the integrated computational workflow and scheduling software required for the tools and methods of work package 2 and 3 to be employed in an operational manner. An operational 'live' demonstrator of the system will be implemented in work package 5.
Working with key strategic project partners the demonstrator will be rigorously evaluated through a series of case studies at the individual site, city and national scale to evaluate how improved surface flood risk mitigation in real-time can be undertaken.
This will be achieved by developing new physical analytical methods that integrate advanced urban flood hazard models with statistical analytics of big data from multiple real-time data-feeds that describe the current state and condition of the city in terms of surface water flood risk and impacts. By coupling physically-based modelling and statistical analytics, decision makers will be provided with improved real-time predictions of surface water flooding to assist in flood mitigation at a range of governance scales; from the individual site through to national emergency and response. This vision will be delivered via five interrelated work packages:
Work package 1 will develop the data management platforms required for capturing, managing and making available the wide variety of real-time data that will be utilised, including real-time weather radar, environmental weather station data feeds, sewer telemetry gauging, CCTV data and traffic congestion data. Data comes from Newcastle's £1.5m Urban Observatory that includes hundreds of pervasive environmental sensors that currently record ~1million observations per day.
Work package 2 will employ this data within a new hydrodynamic surface water flood model that employs statistical data assimilation and modelling for improved real-time calibration and parameterisation for surface water flooding. The outputs of the hydrodynamic surface water flood model will be used in work package 3 to parameterise real-time impacts analysis. Using real-time data feeds such as CCTV, social media, traffic monitoring, new predictive models of how impacts evolve and cascade within cities will be developed for improved response and mitigation.
Work package 4 will develop the integrated computational workflow and scheduling software required for the tools and methods of work package 2 and 3 to be employed in an operational manner. An operational 'live' demonstrator of the system will be implemented in work package 5.
Working with key strategic project partners the demonstrator will be rigorously evaluated through a series of case studies at the individual site, city and national scale to evaluate how improved surface flood risk mitigation in real-time can be undertaken.
Planned Impact
Flood-PREPARED aims to change the way that surface water flooding in cities is managed. Beneficiaries of this project are potentially wide ranging across the spectrum of flood governance; from individual site estate and services, through to national emergency planning. Decision makers at a range of levels of government (including national agencies, devolved administrations and local authorities), engineering consultancies, flood risk management, distribution network operators, emergency services and insurance companies will benefit from the improved response to surface water flooding in cities that Flood-PREPARED will provide. Flood-PREPARED has recognised three impact priorities (IPs) around which we will focus our activities in knowledge transfer and dissemination, namely;
IP1: A hub of excellence in physical analytics for real-time environmental risk mitigation.
The new tools and models developed by Flood-PREPARED are firmly entrenched in the rapidly emerging field of physical analytics; the coupling of advanced statistical modelling and physically-based models. Impact of the advances achieved by Flood-PREPARED in this field will be achieved by dissemination in international journals. The research team has an excellent record of publication in top quartile journals in flooding, statistical modelling and big data cloud computing. The Flood-PREPARED consortium is based around open and accessible software development; we will provide an external facing project GitLab from which all new software tools and models developed in Flood-PREPARED can be retrieved. The skills developed by the researcher body during Flood-PREPARED will be highly sought within industry and academic roles. Our researchers will therefore become the next generation of highly trained mathematical modellers and computer scientists to lead the future development of real-time environmental risk analysis.
IP2: A catalyst for improved surface water flood risk mitigation in cities nationally.
The new understanding that will be provided by Flood-PREPARED offers a unique opportunity for the UK over the next 10-years to develop robust ahead of event surface water flood risk mitigation. Our vison is that cities across the UK develop sensor platforms that duplicate that of Newcastle to facilitate this capability. Our case studies have been carefully designed to facilitate the impact and outreach required to initiate this transformation. Co-production lies at the heart of case studies in order to maximise industry relevant outputs that inform real decision making into the future. Via secondments will disseminate our state of the art understanding to industry and develop a portfolio of knowledge of the best practice in implementing such systems in other cities. Understanding of surface water flooding and the risks it poses is recognised as requiring greater attention by key national agencies (e.g., Environment Agency). Flood-PREPARED will actively engage with key national strategic reviews such as the next round of the National Flood Resilience review to provide new insight and evidence to the challenges of developing robust surface water flood mitigation.
IP3: To improve citizen resilience to surface water flooding in cities.
Flooding of property can have a devastating effect on individuals and lead to long term disruption. Our 'community' dashboard will allow citizens to engage with the warning of flooding predicted; thus allowing proactive mitigation by individuals and local communities to potential flood risk. We will work with local community flood groups to establish how the outputs of Flood-PREPARED can be utilised by the individual to improve mitigation.
IP1: A hub of excellence in physical analytics for real-time environmental risk mitigation.
The new tools and models developed by Flood-PREPARED are firmly entrenched in the rapidly emerging field of physical analytics; the coupling of advanced statistical modelling and physically-based models. Impact of the advances achieved by Flood-PREPARED in this field will be achieved by dissemination in international journals. The research team has an excellent record of publication in top quartile journals in flooding, statistical modelling and big data cloud computing. The Flood-PREPARED consortium is based around open and accessible software development; we will provide an external facing project GitLab from which all new software tools and models developed in Flood-PREPARED can be retrieved. The skills developed by the researcher body during Flood-PREPARED will be highly sought within industry and academic roles. Our researchers will therefore become the next generation of highly trained mathematical modellers and computer scientists to lead the future development of real-time environmental risk analysis.
IP2: A catalyst for improved surface water flood risk mitigation in cities nationally.
The new understanding that will be provided by Flood-PREPARED offers a unique opportunity for the UK over the next 10-years to develop robust ahead of event surface water flood risk mitigation. Our vison is that cities across the UK develop sensor platforms that duplicate that of Newcastle to facilitate this capability. Our case studies have been carefully designed to facilitate the impact and outreach required to initiate this transformation. Co-production lies at the heart of case studies in order to maximise industry relevant outputs that inform real decision making into the future. Via secondments will disseminate our state of the art understanding to industry and develop a portfolio of knowledge of the best practice in implementing such systems in other cities. Understanding of surface water flooding and the risks it poses is recognised as requiring greater attention by key national agencies (e.g., Environment Agency). Flood-PREPARED will actively engage with key national strategic reviews such as the next round of the National Flood Resilience review to provide new insight and evidence to the challenges of developing robust surface water flood mitigation.
IP3: To improve citizen resilience to surface water flooding in cities.
Flooding of property can have a devastating effect on individuals and lead to long term disruption. Our 'community' dashboard will allow citizens to engage with the warning of flooding predicted; thus allowing proactive mitigation by individuals and local communities to potential flood risk. We will work with local community flood groups to establish how the outputs of Flood-PREPARED can be utilised by the individual to improve mitigation.
Organisations
- Newcastle University (Lead Research Organisation)
- Ordnance Survey (Collaboration)
- NEWCASTLE CITY COUNCIL (Project Partner)
- JBA Consulting (Project Partner)
- Chartered Institution for Water (Project Partner)
- Tyne and Wear UTMC (Traffic Control) (Project Partner)
- Northumbrian Water Group plc (Project Partner)
- Arup Group (Project Partner)
- ENVIRONMENT AGENCY (Project Partner)
- Ordnance Survey (Project Partner)
- IBM Corporation (International) (Project Partner)
- Red Hat, Inc (UK) (Project Partner)
- Atkins UK (Project Partner)
Publications

Alwasel K
(2020)
IoTSim-SDWAN: A simulation framework for interconnecting distributed datacenters over Software-Defined Wide Area Network (SD-WAN)
in Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing

Alwasel K
(2021)
IoTSim-Osmosis: A framework for modeling and simulating IoT applications over an edge-cloud continuum
in Journal of Systems Architecture

Arbabi H
(2020)
On the use of random graphs in analysing resource utilization in urban systems.
in Royal Society open science

Barr S
(2020)
FLOOD-PREPARED: A NOWCASTING SYSTEM FOR REAL-TIME IMPACT ADAPTION TO SURFACE WATER FLOODING IN CITIES
in ISPRS Annals of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences

Bozeman J
(2023)
Three research priorities for just and sustainable urban systems: Now is the time to refocus
in Journal of Industrial Ecology

Chen L
(2021)
Estimating Vehicle and Pedestrian Activity from Town and City Traffic Cameras.
in Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)

Dawson RJ
(2018)
An Agent-Based Model for Flood Resilience Engineering

De-Ville S
(2024)
Effect of vegetation treatment and water stress on evapotranspiration in bioretention systems
in Water Research


Gilbert T
(2021)
Topological integration of BIM and geospatial water utility networks across the building envelope
in Computers, Environment and Urban Systems
Description | Ability to use statistical methods to provide very rapid flood forecasts - usually physical flood models take a long time to run. It is possible to integrate forecast, models and impact using open source techniques to provide agile data and planning resources to stakeholders. |
Exploitation Route | Modelling work has been incorporated in other funded activity including OpenClim and Pyramid. |
Sectors | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software) Environment |
Description | Initial work on Flood-PREPARED has had an impact on the design and development of data handling and real-time data modelling capability of the UKCRIC Data and Analytics Facility for National Infrastructure. |
First Year Of Impact | 2017 |
Sector | Digital/Communication/Information Technologies (including Software) |
Impact Types | Societal Economic |
Description | Geospatial Data Infrastructure Report |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Contribution to a national consultation/review |
Description | Richard Dawson appointed to UK Government's independent Committee on Climate Change |
Geographic Reach | National |
Policy Influence Type | Membership of a guideline committee |
Impact | The committee provides independent advice to government. They oversee the 5 yearly climate change risk assessment, mandated by the 2008 Climate Change Act and assess the UK's progress in terms of adaptation to climate change impacts. |
URL | https://www.theccc.org.uk/about/asc-members/ |
Description | Centre for Digital Citizens - Next Stage Digital Economy Centre |
Amount | £3,797,252 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/T022582/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 11/2020 |
End | 09/2025 |
Description | EPSRC STREAM EngD with Northumbrian Water Group |
Amount | £140,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2018 |
End | 09/2022 |
Description | EPSRC iCase PhD award |
Amount | £80,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Ordnance Survey |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 08/2018 |
End | 09/2022 |
Description | FAIRWATER |
Amount | £3,500,000 (GBP) |
Organisation | Ofwat |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 03/2022 |
End | 04/2025 |
Description | NERC DREAM CDT Data, Risk and Environmental Analytical Methods |
Amount | £83,836 (GBP) |
Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2017 |
End | 09/2021 |
Description | NERC NPIF DREAM CASE PhD |
Amount | £89,836 (GBP) |
Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 09/2017 |
End | 09/2021 |
Description | PYRAMID: Platform for dYnamic, hyper-resolution, near-real time flood Risk AssessMent Integrating repurposed and novel Data sources |
Amount | £792,200 (GBP) |
Funding ID | NE/V00378X/1 |
Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 07/2020 |
End | 08/2023 |
Description | TRACK: Transport Risk Assessment for COVID Knowledge |
Amount | £3,126,526 (GBP) |
Funding ID | EP/V032658/1 |
Organisation | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 08/2020 |
End | 02/2023 |
Description | Topic A: Open CLimate IMpacts modelling framework (OpenCLIM) |
Amount | £1,869,001 (GBP) |
Funding ID | NE/T013931/1 |
Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 04/2020 |
End | 08/2023 |
Description | Towards resilience to pluvial flood events |
Amount | £253,013 (GBP) |
Funding ID | NE/S005994/1 |
Organisation | Natural Environment Research Council |
Sector | Public |
Country | United Kingdom |
Start | 11/2018 |
End | 10/2020 |
Title | CCTV static Image library |
Description | Over 5,000,000 CCTV images from 420 cameras around Newcastle upon Tyne |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2017 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Open API enabling researcher, public and government to access data. |
URL | http://api.newcastle.urbanobservatory.ac.uk/camera |
Title | Data from the UKCRIC National Green Infrastructure Facility |
Description | Data from the UKCRIC National Green Infrastructure Facility |
Type Of Material | Database/Collection of data |
Year Produced | 2020 |
Provided To Others? | Yes |
Impact | Made live data available from the UKCRIC National Green Infrastructure Facility |
URL | https://api.ngif.urbanobservatory.ac.uk/ |
Description | EPSRC iCase studentship |
Organisation | Ordnance Survey |
Country | United Kingdom |
Sector | Public |
PI Contribution | Research expertise |
Collaborator Contribution | Full iCase studentship - Modelling sensors from the the kitchen sink to the national grid |
Impact | New research project |
Start Year | 2018 |
Title | CCTV car detection and time series analysis |
Description | open source packages are developed to detect cars from CCTV image series and to further analyze flooding impact on traffic flows |
Type Of Technology | Software |
Year Produced | 2018 |
Open Source License? | Yes |
Impact | No notable impacts to date |
Title | CCTV data storage and visualisation software |
Description | Software to stream 514 traffic CCTV data feeds, data storage and an 'open' API and web-based visualisation software for access. Use din Flood-PREPARED to investigate impacts of surface water on traffic flows. |
Type Of Technology | Software |
Year Produced | 2018 |
Open Source License? | Yes |
Impact | None as yet |
URL | https://api.newcastle.urbanobservatory.ac.uk/camera/ |
Description | Academic Presentation EGU |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Discussions |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | https://meetingorganizer.copernicus.org/EGU2020/EGU2020-5194.html |
Description | Big data and the environment |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation at the Turing National Centre for Data Science workshop on Environmental Data Science |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Big data to tackle climate change in cities |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Presentation at Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Conference on Cities and Climate change, Edmonton, Canada |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://citiesipcc.org/ |
Description | COP26 - Panel on infrastructure adaptation to climate change |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Workshop at COP26 involving 20 climate change leads from various infrastructure organisations attended a workshop which sparked questions, discussion and follow up activities. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | COP26 - Workshop on Sustainable Cities |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Event at COP26, chaired by the Danish Ambassador, with politicians, industry and academics from around the world. Follow up discussions around adaptation of the built environment to manage climate change risks. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2022 |
Description | Cities Research Theme Launch |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Launch of the University's research theme in Cities |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Cities Workshop at the Ordnance Survey |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Cities Workshop at the Ordnance Survey with cross-disciplinary academics for project planning and discussion of new proposals and networking |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | DAFNI Seminar London: Real Time Flood Modelling on DAFNI |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Dissemination event on the joint Flood-PREPARED and EPSRC UKCRIC hack week on real time flood modeling on the DAFNI platform. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/dafni-seminar-london-real-time-flood-modelling-on-dafni-tickets-56440... |
Description | Data Research Theme Launch |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Launch of the University's research theme in Data to local stakeholders |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Discussion panel with UK Civil Service Head of Geography |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Discussion panel with UK Civil Service Head of Geography to raise awareness and discuss opportunities for data integration into current government practice and the skills gap |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | EPSRC UKCRIC team visit |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation on Flood-PREPARED research to EPSRC UKCRIC team. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | EPSRC/STFC UKCRIC DAFNI consultation event |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | EPSRC/STFC UKCRIC DAFNI consultation event presentation on handling real time data of cities and infrastructure systems. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Flood-PREPARED and EPSRC UKCRIC DAFNI real time data modelleing workshop |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Development of the integrated workflow on the UKCRIC DAFNI facility of the Flood-PREPARED models and analytics. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
URL | https://www.dafni.ac.uk/ |
Description | H7O: Global Water Security Innovations and Challenges |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Organised a major international symposium on water security. Led to follow on interactions with industry and national and international researchers. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | HABITS workshop Leeds University |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | HABITS workshop run by Leeds University presenting analysis of Newcastle Urban Observatory data relating to Flood-PREPARED. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | ISPRS Smart City Data Keynote |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Generated further queries and discussions with team members |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
URL | http://www.isprs2020-nice.com/index.php/virtualevent-2/ |
Description | Institution Civil Engineers 5th Annual Lecture on Resilience |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | "Climate Resilient Infrastructure", Institution Civil Engineers, Stantec and Heriot Watt: 5th Annual Lecture on Resilience, October 2018. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | International Workshop of Water Disaster Mitigation and Water Environment Regulation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation at International Workshop of Water Disaster Mitigation and Water Environment Regulation Chengdu, China |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Invited presentation at Applied Urban Modelling conference Cambridge |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Invited presentation at Applied Urban Modelling covering real time spatial modelling of cities. Generated discussion around future hazard modelling in cities. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Invited presentation at the MacArthur Foundation Workshop on Urban Modelling and the Complexity Sciences |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Invited presentation at the MacArthur Foundation Workshop on Urban Modelling and the Complexity Sciences, University College London. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Joint Nuron and Northumbrian Water Ltd meeting on real time data and monitoring |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Joint Nuron and Northumbrian Water Ltd meeting on real time data and monitoring. Companies presented their technology, Newcastle University presented research in Flood-PREPARED. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
URL | http://www.nuron.tech/ |
Description | Keynote presentation at the 8th "21st Century Urban Development" International Conference |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Keynote presentation at the 8th "21st Century Urban Development" International Conference, Wuhan China. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | MHCLG Smart Communities Advsory Board |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Policymakers/politicians |
Results and Impact | Advisory Board to Government |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020,2021 |
Description | NERC DREAM CDT Challenge Week: Talk/hackathon |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Postgraduate students |
Results and Impact | DREAM Challenge Week Talk/hackathon Outcomes: Use of data and tools, awareness; Developed 3 prototype systems using data |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Presentation at DAFNI consultation event Innovate Up London |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation on Flood-PREPARED real-time hazard data and modelling to potential UKCRIC DAFNI users. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Presentation to Lloyds Register Data-Centric Engineering programme lead |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation to Lloyds Register Data-Centric Engineering programme lead |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www.lrfoundation.org.uk/en/news/towards-data-centric-engineering/ |
Description | Presentation to President of the Institution of Civil Engineers |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation to President of the Institution of Civil Engineers |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Presentation to the Humanist Association |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Public/other audiences |
Results and Impact | Presentation on Smart City Work and challenges |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2021 |
Description | Seminar at EAWAG |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation on how smart infrastructure can be used to help adapt and build resilience to climate change. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
Description | Sky News - 6pm National News, 18th Feb 2020 |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A press release, press conference or response to a media enquiry/interview |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Media (as a channel to the public) |
Results and Impact | Interviewed about floods and climate change impacts. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2020 |
Description | Smart sustainability - Data and information as engineering tools to mitigate climate change |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation and workshop attendance at the Global Engineering Congress London |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www-smartinfrastructure.eng.cam.ac.uk/news-and-events/csic-hosts-roundtable-at-the-global-en... |
Description | Tech Tuesday |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Local |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Showcase and demonstration at Newcastle University Tech Tuesday industry event. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | The 16th Annual Meeting of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS 2019) |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation at The 16th Annual Meeting of the Asia Oceania Geosciences Society (AOGS 2019) Singapore. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | The 38th IAHR World Congress |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Presentation at the 38th IAHR World Congress Panama City, Panama September 2019 |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | University of Nottingham seminar |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | Regional |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Seminar invitation presentation to geospatial Institute at University Nottingham on real time spatial data modelling. Has lead to initial discussion on collaborative research. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |
Description | Urban observation and machine learning for transport network monitoring and prediction |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Other audiences |
Results and Impact | Oral presentation to a group of computer scientists and engineers on the use of AI and sensor networks to monitor real time transport dynamics. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Urban observation to support climate change adaptation and mitigation |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A formal working group, expert panel or dialogue |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | A working paper |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2018 |
URL | https://www-smartinfrastructure.eng.cam.ac.uk/system/files/documents/smartsustainability.pdf |
Description | Urban traffic flow monitoring and prediction based on CCTV and machine learning |
Form Of Engagement Activity | A talk or presentation |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | International |
Primary Audience | Professional Practitioners |
Results and Impact | Invited key note presentation at an international workshop on the use of smart sensor networks for the monitoring of urban dynamics. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2019 |
Description | Wuthering Bytes IoT event |
Form Of Engagement Activity | Participation in an activity, workshop or similar |
Part Of Official Scheme? | No |
Geographic Reach | National |
Primary Audience | Industry/Business |
Results and Impact | Presentation and panel participation at Wuthering Bytes IoT event. Raised awareness of the real time data monitoring work of Flood-PREPARED. |
Year(s) Of Engagement Activity | 2017 |