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By collating data from sensors such as cameras and microphones, and cross-referencing it with results from social networks such as Twitter, users will be able to receive detailed responses to questions such as ‘What part of the city hosts live music events that my friends have been to recently?' and ‘How busy is the city centre?'
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"SMART builds upon the existing concept of ‘smart cities', physical spaces which are covered in an array of intelligent sensors which communicate with each other and can be searched for information," said Dr Iadh Ounis, of the University of Glasgow's School of Computing Science.
"The search results sourced from these smart cities can be reused across multiple applications, making the system more effective."
The team from Glasgow University hopes the SMART project will be ready for testing in a real city by 2014.
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