Cityinfo.Cloud – Where to find what?

• Cityinfo.Cloud is an ecosystem of its own, developed specifically for all the needs of a city and its citizens.
• Via a free access without prior download of a native app, all stored information is easily brought to the smartphone of the user.
• In real time, filterable and searchable and in any desired language.
• Flexible, with real benefits, easy to use and maintain.
• State-of-the-art technology
• Developed in Bavaria.

The solution consists of 3 basic parts:

A database, in which all participants (city, trade, gastronomy …) deposit their own, individual contents.

An administration console, the “dashboard”, via which all entries and settings are made.

The frontend as a PWA (Progressive Web App), through which the content is optimized for the smartphone and displayed on the user’s mobile phone or tablet.

How far you open the door, which door you open, or which function is provided when and how, is decided by the operator: you.

We make sure that there is room for all eventualities and wishes.

Therefore we rely on a completely modular concept, connected by modern API’s (interfaces) – among each other, as well as to already existing systems. The individual parts can be built, changed, adapted, switched on and off separately from each other. Exactly as the city and its partners need it. Future-proof, flexible, affordable.

The database:

• The advantages of a database structure are its great flexibility and enormous capacity.
• The content can be alphanumeric characters and images, but of course also video and audio.
• The input and maintenance is done by direct linking via interface, via a simple Excel sheet (for large amounts of data) or directly manually via the dashboard.

The dashboard/administrative console:

• Products, courts, services, announcements, etc. can be independently corrected, changed, turned on/off, deleted or promoted in the dashboard.
• The dashboard runs – independent of the respective operating system – in any commercially available browser.
• Individual extensions can be blocked or released here and increase the functionality.
• Data entry and maintenance is deliberately designed to be very simple and should be familiar to most suppliers after a brief introduction.
• Data import from the existing merchandise management system or manual lists are entered individually manually or in total via an Excel form.
• After import into Cityinfo.Cloud, all data is in the right place and is displayed mobile at the same moment.
• Image, text and audio files are collected in the media center.
• They can then be easily assigned individually to the individual articles (food, news, events).
• They can be exchanged or deleted just as quickly.
  Smartphone access:
• Via a simple QR code taken with the existing photo.app on the iPhone or a scanner application on Android, the front end of Cityinfo Services opens immediately in the browser.
• Here, the desired areas can be selected, e.g. The city, retailers, restaurants, etc.
• With the global search, the area is narrowed down further.
• From the frontend can be booked, bought, reserved or just viewed
• The display is multilingual in all stored or automatically translated languages.

• As an information and interaction platform, the software is an instrument of local location marketing and acts as a “digital shop window,” primarily for end-consumer-related offers (service providers, retail, gastronomy, culture, leisure, tourism, public services, relevant news).
• An individual access of the location community to its own individual dashboard, the management console, is provided to paying providers automatically and in compliance with data protection laws. Here, local providers have a profile as customers of Cityinfo Services and can enter current content themselves.

• One of the main goals of the Cityinfo concept is to build a bridge between end users and local suppliers in order to offer users fast and functional alternatives to simply ordering from globally operating online mail order companies, such as Amazon, Alibaba, Ebay, etc.
• We want to bring people back to local stores more. E.g. by selection at home, from the office, wherever, payment by smartphone and convenient pickup in the store or restaurant. Through personal delivery service or even ordering and paying In-house.
• The municipality and its partners can share any relevant content with users and the general public via Cityinfo.Cloud.

• The concept and the technical implementation must be intuitive, simple, fast, and flexible for users and the partners involved.
• A native app, on the other hand, must always be downloaded by the user first, and since it is thus dependent on the operating system providers and their stores, it must also always be built and maintained for at least two platforms in the mobile area.
• A responsive web site with significantly fewer options is extremely complex to program, far too cumbersome, impossible to maintain by the individual providers, and increases dependency on the provider.
• That’s why we rely on a PWA (Progressive Web App). A native app is very cost-intensive and inflexible for the intended goal. Only a PWA with a fast and intuitive access via QR code (NFC, RFID, or even via url) and the direct connection to a database system is suitable to bring users conveniently to the provided content and at the same time allow partners a simple fast way to maintain data.
• Cityinfo.Cloud is more than a concept. We have already developed the complete basic structure with our international team of developers, including proven specialists in Cloud Services, AI, AI, UI, Networking and Databases. That’s why we can adapt the construct relatively quickly to the site’s indivdual requirements – including branding.
• Since everything in Cityinfo.cloud, including the internal communication of the individual modules, is API/interface based, we can integrate external existing systems accordingly well.

• All data is stored – appropriately protected with internationally recognized security measures – on large, self-scaling servers in Frankfurt/Main Germany.
• Direct access to the data is only possible for a small group of people from the Cityinfo.Cloud team or the operator.
• The data itself is encrypted, there is – except for direct individual access via the respective dashboard of the content provider and only there – no access for uninvolved third parties.
• If required, the use of a modern decentralized blockchain system (e.g. Polkadot, IOTA) is possible.

• A key goal of the Cityinfo concept is to build the bridge between end users and local vendors, offering users fast and workable alternatives to shopping at the multinationals.
• We want to bring people back to the local stores. E.g. by offering selection from home, office, wherever. Payment by smartphone and convenient pickup at the store or restaurant. By personal delivery service or even ordering and paying In-house.
• The municipality and its partners can share any relevant content with users and the general public via Cityinfo.Cloud – quickly, flexibly and directly.

Cityinfo.Cloud is part of Smartdatahub and is based in Geretsried, Bavaria (administration, concept, marketing and sales) and in Athens, Greece (R & D, development, software conception, programming, integration).

Concept.

SmartDataHub is a brand of kpr kommunikation, Gelting, an experienced concept, marketing, advertising and PR agency. Owner Udo Klünsch, sales and marketing specialist, long-time managing director of the branch of an international company from the consumer goods industry, is on the road as a consultant and doer in the B2B segment for industry and trade in a wide variety of sectors. He develops business ideas and communication concepts and implements them directly with his team.

Development

YORENDA with its CEO Evangelos Kasimatis is an end-to-end SaaS company (SaaS = Software-as-a-Service) specializing in the development of content-intensive native web platforms (app-less) that are directly available on any client device (smartphone, tablet). Using a modern software development framework, YORENDA’s solutions achieve speed, adaptability and interactivity in a variety of industry-specific implementations.

YORENDA became internationally known through its Internet platform Tripinview (https://tripinview.com/) for the tourism sector, which has already won several awards in Germany and internationally. For the Cityinfo platform, up to 10 dedicated and experienced developers are employed.