Lighting Specifier Issue 11 2018 | Page 14

Real-time interactive mode with social media • 52 MINUTES each hour. • ALL TWITTER USERS can interact directly with the Jacques Cartier Bridge, causing a point of light to appear from one of the bridge’s ‘towers’ and move across the bridge’s skin. • 2 REAL-TIME SOCIAL MEDIA feeds are used: Tweets making reference to Montréal (eg. #montreal); and Tweets addressed to bridge-specific hashtags (eg. #illuminationMTL). 14 • • 2 DISTINCT COLOURS are used to differentiate the Tweets for Montréal from the Tweets for the bridge. UP TO 500 LIGHT POINTS, representing the most recent and most-liked TWEETS, circulate simultaneously on the bridge’s skin, before the oldest and least popular gently fade out. Unique hourly show, based on big data collected from Montreal • 8 MINUTES each hour With 53 data points in 11 different categories collected every day in real time, the possibilities to mirror Montreal’s energy are infinite. The bridge translates urban big data collected from sensors over the course of the day and updated every hour, into a series of eye-catching data visualisations. Pulling from a wide variety of data sources, including weather, traffic, news and social media, each hourly show is generated in real-time and is totally unique. The ever-changing content makes the Jacques Cartier Bridge a true barometer of Montreal life. Photo credit: Moment Factory