July 18, 2022 Elisavet Tsekeri from Technical University of Crete / Πολυτεχνείο Κρήτης, presented the VARCITIES project at the SpliTech Conference 2022 – Hybrid Conference in Croatia.Under scope of Smart Health, We captivated audience in the topic of “On the integration of nature-based solutions with digital innovation for health and wellbeing in cities.” 𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗼𝗯𝗷𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗲 was to present the potential of NBS enriched digital techniques that can be integrated into a future city. By using Chania-Greece as a case study, We presented

1. Description of solutions
2. Key performance indicators (KPIs)
3. Design of ICT infrastructures (IoT, Mixed Reality, ICT)

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗺𝗮𝗶𝗻 𝘀𝗰𝗼𝗽𝗲 of our work is

• demonstration the capabilities of an ICT Platform which gathers and mines environmental data through visual analytics, enabling the interconnection of interactive Mixed Reality applications, Open Data Platforms, and third-party applications.​
• Combination of data from IoT, processed with ICT and visualised in Mixed Reality, is integrated to form an engaging interactive experiences for environmental awareness, outdoors on-site and on-the-move.​
• Expand the static visualisation with MR technologies, to increase citizens’ and visitors’ environmental awareness and motivate them to act accordingly to safe guard their city and individual wellbeing.​
• Promote public green spaces and make understandable and clear the impact to the citizens’ health and well-being through smart technologies in a multimodal, gamified and interactive way.