The Institute is currently seeking grants to support smart city research and development. So far we have submitted grant proposals to FDCT and FDCT-NSFC. We also plan to take advantage of the university-industry joint grant opportunity to be rolled out by FDCT soon.

A number of smart campus and smart city use cases have been identified as follows.

Smart Campus Use Cases

• MUST+ app

• Student attendance verification.

• Library access and services via face detection and recognition.

• Campus mobile pay platform.

• Course content management system.

• NE3D content development for different disciplines.

• Cloud-based teaching/research labs.

• VR/AR/HR for enhanced teaching.

• Robotic applications in classrooms.

Smart City Use cases

• HPC based Macau city cloud via collaboration with Sugon.

• Value-added services for government agencies and departments.

• Holographic reality for entertainment, tourism, transportation, health-care, and environmental protection.

• Tourism data analytics (e.g., data collected from WiFi streets in Macau).

• Transportation data analytics.