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INTELLIGENT STREET FURNITURE STREET FURNITURE Cities have always been at the heart of major developments in our society with the advent of digital technology prompting us to consider its role in the urban environment. Current and future use of the technology as well as universal access and visibility are all central to this debate. While private companies and city authorities have championed ‘virtual intelligence’ projects, increasing the visibility of these opportunities to the public has been a challenge for all stakeholders in the urban environment. This issue has particular relevance to...

JCDecaux’s projects 6 Intelligent Street Furniture projects offering new services will be installed throughout the year. They have been developed along 5 major themes: Discover Digital Totem “Décodeur Urbain” High Definition news Paris at your fingertips Concept-Bus Shelter Play Digital Harbour Digital playground JCDecaux’s content partners

INTELLIGENT STREET FURNITURE Awards & Accolades Award-winning innovative concepts In 2012, JCDecaux’s Intelligent Street Furniture range received three awards. The awards recognized the innovative qualities of the furniture, the range of digital services provided, the company’s outstanding organizational skills from initial design to production and its success in working closely with multiple partners and start-up fir

The Daily DOOH Awards pay tribute to the greatest achievements in digital out-of-home advertising worldwide. JCDecaux’s Intelligent Street Furniture range in Paris was awarded the 2012 “Best Digital Poster or Street Furniture Implementation” prize. Best digital poster or street furniture implementation Daily DOOH Gala Awards 2012 The judging panel praised the six digital services provided by JCDecaux, which have helped make the city more accessible for everyone living, working and visiting the French capital. JCDecaux and its innovative start-up partners won the 2012 Alliancy Innovation...

INTELLIGENT STREET FURNITURE DÉCO DEUR Discover the “Décodeur Urbain” Paris at your fingertips Access to information in public places - for people simply wanting to find their way around or to discover things to do - is a major concern for cities. While street maps and smartphones can provide part of the solution, they don’t meet the important criteria of delivering content-rich information that is accessible for everyone. Similarly, street maps can offer the public easy and free access to information but can’t provide the flexibility of updated and tailored information. While Smartphones can...

An easy-to-use consumer interface A graphical interface developed by Use Design, an agency specializing in ergonomics and tactile interfaces, to meet three objectives : >> Encourage city-dwellers to interact by presenting the range of content offered by the “Décodeur Urbain” in a simple, user-friendly way, >> Provide rapid access to relevant information, >> Develop an interface that is intuitive and universally accessible, especially for people who are less familiar with digital technology. Content organised around 4 themes Getting around Providing content-rich, localised information in...

An open platform capable of welcoming all types of content From the outset, we wanted to make the “Décodeur Urbain” an open platform capable of hosting all the different types of relevant content that would gradually emerge as the project got underway. This is why we opted for an Android environment, an open system used by a large part of the mobile application development community. JCDecaux’s in-house teams developed several mapping applications: a map of the Vélib' docking stations including dynamic bicycle availability data, a map of taxi ranks, a neighbourhood map covering the 4...

Discover the “Décodeur Urbain” on the Concept-Bus Shelter and the Digital Harbour

INTELLIGENT STREET FURNITURE BUS SHELTER Discover the Concept-Bus Shelter A world of services Above and beyond its traditional function of protecting passengers from the elements, bus shelters can be used to offer city-dwellers a range of new services deploying the latest technologies. This was the thought process behind the creation of the Concept-Bus Shelter. Designed by Patrick Jouin, this innovative bus shelter has exciting new features that are designed to ease the customer journey, making it more enjoyable and engaging. To meet city-dwellers’ expectations about access to information...

The Concept-Bus Shelter, a wealth of original features The Concept-Bus Shelter, designed by Patrick Jouin, is an innovative, multi-service bus shelter offering a wide range of features: >> Unprecedented comfort: rear access, large bench and roof >> A large “Décodeur Urbain”, combined with a screen that is accessible to people in wheelchairs: these screens offer all users a range of relevant applications organised around four themes >> A touchscreen to view local classified ads >> Sockets to recharge electronic devices >> A glazed roof providing lighting or filtering out the sun’s rays >> A...

Digital display, 72-inch screen Images from the Parisienne 1 de Photographie picture gallery and the City of Paris Glazed roof, acting as a filtering and lighting system 7 22-inch e-Village screen displaying classified ads 5 Defibrillator 8 2 Wider bench along its entire length 22-inch “Décodeur Urbain”, accessible to wheelchair users. 6 42-inch “Décodeur Urbain” 3 AFP news feed, bus waiting times

A rich and multi-disciplinary innovation process A year-long collaborative process between the designer and JCDecaux’s teams refined the initial concept and led to the development of the groundbreaking street furniture item. The initial design stages focused on creating an object capable of hosting all the innovations and services we created. Two processes went hand-in-hand, each contributing to the development of the Concept-Bus Shelter prototype: > Transformation of the design into the reality of mechanical and electronic engineering, necessary to create an appropriate street furniture...