what is and what will be a smart city? It's not only about technology for efficiency,It's about attitudes, It s about administrators' and citizens' behaviours..

1. HOW CAN WE LEVERAGE MOBILE
TECHNOLOGY TO MAKE OUR CITIES
MORE EFFICIENT AND SUSTAINABLE?
The smart city concept
Ramon Palacio – UPC professor
KAIROS Mobile Summit Barcelona, October 2013

2. Water
supply & draining, 100% capillarity
Energy
distribution
Electricity,
Fuel
Food
100% capillarity
distribution clusters
supply & waste collection
Food
distribution clusters
Waste
collection clusters
CITY SERVICES / URBAN SERVICES. THE NEEDS (1 OF 2)

3. Security
Health
(police & firemen & ambulances)
clusters (hospitals, health centers …)
Education
Mobility
clusters (schools, universities …)
management (by feet, by bike, by car)
Cultural
clusters (theaters, cinemas, museums,
libraries, auditoria…)
Social
needs
CITY SERVICES / URBAN SERVICES. THE NEEDS (2 OF 2)

4. Is
it a new concept?
Is
it a new brand?
Is
it a fashion?
Is
it a “renaming” of an old concept?
SMART CITY. THE NAME.

5. Attitudes
Technology
SMART CITY ESSENTIALS

6. Efficiency
in management
Transparency
Proximity
in communication
in democracy
SMART CITY. THE CONTENT

7. Technology
for the efficient management of
the city (mobility, parking, lighting, waste,
environment ...)
Attitudes
& technology for the efficient &
transparent management of services to citizens
(e-health, e-government)
Attitudes
democracy
for social & political participation, e-
SMART CITY. THE COMPONENTS OF THE CONTENT

8. Citizens
(final users)
Administrations
(responsible)
Urban
service operators (executors, big
contractors)
Solution
providers (technology innovators)
SMART CITY. THE ACTORS

9. Integrators
Apps
makers
Device
makers
SOLUTION PROVIDERS. TECHNOLOGY

10.  Applications
and services (infinite)
 Smart Gateway & Cross-functional Platform (city
operating system)
 Asset
management
 Big data processing
 Interface to apps

Information gathering subsystem
 MAN
Metropolitan Area Network (Wi-Fi, 3G, LTE ....)
 WLAN, Wireless Local Area Network (zig bee protocols)
 Sensors & other information gathering
THE 3 LAYER TECHNOLOGY MODEL

11. Parking
facilities management
Mobility
management
Solid
waste management
Water
management (in & out)
Lighting
management
Environment
management
VERTICAL SOLUTIONS

12. Ubiquity
& Mobility
Flexibility
Security
& Adaptability
& Confidence
Simplicity
& Friendliness
“Pro-sumers”
(model 2.0)
Green
SERVICE REQUIREMENT TRENDS

13.  1.-
Mobile Device Diversity and Management
 2.-
Mobile Apps and Applications
 3.-
The Internet of Everything
 4.-
Hybrid Cloud and IT as Service Broker
 5.-
Cloud/Client Architecture
 6.-
The Era of Personal Cloud
 7.-
Software Defined Anything
 8.-
Web-Scale IT
 9.-
Smart Machines
 10.-
3-D Printing
GARTNER TOP 10 STRATEGIC TECHNOLOGY TRENDS FOR 2014

14. The

smart city concept
Ramon Palacio – UPC professor
THANK YOU & …. GOOD JOB!