Work Package 5, led by Integrated Environmental Solutions, supports the digital innovation of VARCITIES by aiming to design and develop all the ICT infrastructure required to collect, store, analyse and visualise data coming from all Pilots and make them available to different stakeholders including citizens in an easily understandable and engaging way.

Specifically, within WP5, Task 5.2 aims to define the detailed requirements for the VARCITIES Health and Wellbeing (H&WB) platform that will be developed. D 5.2 is the result of this activity.

Executive Summary

Four different types of dashboards have been specified in order to enable engagement with a broad range of stakeholders. Firstly, there is a dashboard to give a quick map visualisation of all sites and allowing an easy comparison between them. Secondly, there is a local version with 3D models, key information and live data on the most impactful H&WB Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for each site. Thirdly, there is a dashboard dedicated to showing live data collected from the sensors, and fourthly there is a dashboard to provide an enriched link between the Nature Based Solutions (NBS), improved biodiversity and health and wellbeing. This final dashboard allows user feedback through the platform to be fed back to local data platforms for additional analysis and KPI calculations. It is also intended to act as a means to educatelocal citizens, especially visitors from schools on the importance of green space and biodiversity in our urban areas.

The objective of defining the detailed requirements for the VARCITIES Health and Wellbeing (H&WB) platform  has been fulfilled by the development of 153 detailed Use Cases (approximately 19 per site) which cover each piece of functionality the H&WB platform is required to perform. Through workshops and meetings feedback and validation was gained from local stakeholders during the development of the use cases, which then enabled the creation of mock up views for each pilot site to allow them to give further feedback.

Four different types of dashboards have been specified in order to enable engagement with a broad range of stakeholders. Firstly, there is a dashboard to give a quick map visualisation of all sites and allowing an easy comparison between them. Secondly, there is a local version with 3D models, key information and live data on the most impactful H&WB Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for each site. Thirdly, there is a dashboard dedicated to showing live data collected from the sensors, and fourthly there is a dashboard to provide an enriched link between the Nature Based Solutions (NBS), improved biodiversity and health and wellbeing. This final dashboard allows user feedback through the platform to be fed back to local data platforms for additional analysis and KPI calculations. It is also intended to act as a means to educatelocal citizens, especially visitors from schools on the importance of green space and biodiversity in our urban areas.

The functionalities required by the pilot sites and their stakeholders will use the existing suite of software from IES as a basis. This software will be extended and further developed for the purposes of VARCITIES particularly in the areas of data exchange, visualisations of the natural environment and allowing users to give live feedback on their experience of their use of the sites and how it has impacted their health and wellbeing. As well as this, the report has defined the overall H&WB platform technical architecture by showing at a high level how data collected from sensors will be stored at local sites (T5.4) and use a common API framework (T5.5) to exchange this data with the H&WB platform.

This report is used for the development of the H&WB Platform in Task 5.6 and allows a Digital Twin of the pilot area sto be created, digitising nature while providing valuable and quantified informationto different target end users. The Platform will show the results in an understandable and engagingway, maximisingthe interaction and usability of the pilot sites and their Nature Based Solutions in order to improve Health and Wellbeing.

This is a confidential deliverable, as such the full deliverable is not available to the public.