SMART CITIES

In this lecture Pegah and Marcos explain what a Smart City is. It’s a city that uses data and information technologies to provide better services to citizens, track progress toward policy goals, optimize the existing infrastructure, enable new business model for public and private sector service provision and collaborate within government and citizens.

There are three core components of a smart city: the technological factors, the people factors and the institutional factors. The advantages of a smart city are the smarter healthcare, public safety, transportation (smart mobility), energy, education and government services.

About the smart city technologies, there are four different types implemented:

• ·         Data Collecting technologies to form a sensor and actuator network
• ·         Data Transmission technologies to provide a high speed Internet Infrastructure to allow for a city wide access to the information
• ·         Data Storage and Processing Technologies
• ·         Service Delivery Platform