Una recopilación de referencias sobre Smart Cities. @manufernandez.
Mayor Bloomberg Launches NYC Urban Technology Innovation Center. Mayor Michael R.
Bloomberg today launched the NYC Urban Technology Innovation Center, an initiative to promote the development and commercialization of green building technologies in New York City. It will connect academic institutions conducting underlying research, companies creating the associated products, and building owners who will use those technologies. Through the Center – a partnership of the New York City Economic Development Corporation, Columbia University, Polytechnic Institute of New York University, and the City University of New York (CUNY) – green building technology companies that need real-world test sites will be joined with building owners looking to benefit from the latest developments and willing to provide a test environment.
CISCO to create an urban innovation center in Barcelona. Within the framework of the Metropolis 2009-2011 Action Plan, Commission 5 “Partnership for Urban Innovation” was established with the goal of fostering innovation in cities, in close collaboration with the private sector and other interested institutions.
Boosting partnerships is a key element in projects in which Metropolis participates. In this regard, Metropolis signed a collaboration agreement with CISCO two years ago to analyze the viability of creating ICT-based urban innovation centers. Over the past two years Metropolis has facilitated the collaboration between CISCO and Barcelona City Council to create an innovation center in the city. SmartSantander. Japan creating 'smart city' of the future. There were gadgets and robots galore at Japan's premier electronics show last week.
But one of the biggest attractions wasn't anything you could touch - an energy-efficient city of the future. For the first time, the Combined Exhibition of Advanced Technologies, better known as CEATAC, devoted one area of the show floor to selling a vision of urban life in 2020 and beyond. 'Smart city' The Japanese version of the "smart city" exists in a post-fossil fuel world. Alternative sources like the sun, wind and nuclear power are harnessed in mass quantities. The goal is to drastically cut carbon emissions, which many scientists believe cause global warming - ideally to zero. The city of Yokohama, just southwest of Tokyo, is the site of a social and infrastructure experiment to create a smart city for the rest of the world to emulate.
Helsinki Smart City showcase. Posted by Nicos Komninos at 16 October 2010 in Videos on Intelligent Cities FIREBALL has produced a video on smart city applications in the city of Helsinki, Finland.
It presents a series of digital applications facilitating various activities in the city: mobility, energy, health and well being, social care, housing, education, and other. Cyborg City: New York’s central nervous system is growing; here's what it can do. In the not-so-distant future, on Roosevelt Island, you will pull into a parking spot and a small, white, square lump will be burrowed in the asphalt underneath.
The lump, an ultra-low power sensor, will communicate with other white lumps under parked cars all over the island, telling each other when you pulled in, how long you've been parked and when you rumble away. Last month, the Roosevelt Island Operating Corp. announced plans to place these sensors underneath the 30 new parking spots next to Roosevelt Island's subway and tramway. The organization hopes the new "smart" parking spaces, created by a company called Streetline, will help ease double-parking snarls and short-meter-time frustrations. By embedding sensors, Roosevelt Island will have the ability to assess its parking situation and make changes, like adding more parking spaces in certain areas or boosting fares in particularly congested areas.
Now imagine the sensors canvassed citywide. A Bold New Model for Sustainable Cities - Robert G. Eccles and Amy C. Edmondson - HBS Faculty. By Robert G.
Eccles and Amy C. Edmondson | 9:40 AM July 22, 2010 If you say “sustainable urbanization,” most people think of emerging markets like China and India where there is a desperate need to build new cities to accommodate hundreds of millions of people moving in from rural areas. Some may also think about the need to make the world’s existing cities more sustainable — certainly in environmental terms but also in social and economic terms. Beyond the “smart city,” part II: A definition. As we’ve mentioned previously, we tend not to use the phrase “smart city” in either our thought or our work.
Neither, frankly, do contemporary descriptions of “real-time,” “living,” “sentient” or “cognitive” cities quite capture the quality we’re interested in bringing to urban life. It struck us as fair enough, then, when a client recently asked us to develop a definition we could use in place of these rubrics to describe what we’re doing together. What precisely is the context we’re operating in? What we’ve come up with is admittedly much (much) wordier than any of these shorthand descriptions, but constitutes a more rigorous and practically useful definition of the terrain we’re interested in.
In addition to sharing this definition with our client, we thought you might like to see it as well; we’d be delighted if you found it clarifying or otherwise helpful. Forum on Future Cities. MIT Senseable City Lab and Rockefeller Foundation present an MIT150 event MIT April 12-13, 2011 Join leading thinkers from around the world to discuss pressing issues of urbanization and a wave of new distributed technologies.
Over the next few decades, the world is preparing to build more urban fabric than has been built by humanity ever before. Actualidad y proyectos relacionados. La tecnología Smart Cities reduce el gasto y mejora la eficiencia. Las tecnologías Smart Cities, o ciudades inteligentes, son un tipo de tecnologías de la información y la comunicación que se están poniendo muy de moda en la actualidad.
Por Smart Cities se entiende un conjunto de servicios, basados en las tecnologías de información y comunicación, como hemos mencionado anteriormente que se ofrecen en un núcleo urbano, aunque también se puede sconcebir como la extensión de la domótica a los servicios del municipio, pues estos servicios se pueden dar en cualquier punto de la ciudad. Con este servicio se puede llevar un sistema de control de gestión de manera remota, que conlleva algunas ventajas con el sistema tradicional, pues por un lado se reducen los gastos de los municipios y por otro se mejora considerablemente el servicio. Más tarde, si nos centramos en un servicio se podrían encontrar otras muchas ventajas tales como la mejora de la eficiencia energética, la eficiencia de consumo de agua o de los procesos operativos.
Smart city. Urban performance currently depends not only on the city's endowment of hard infrastructure ('physical capital'), but also, and increasingly so, on the availability and quality of knowledge communication and social infrastructure ('intellectual capital and social capital'). The latter form of capital is decisive for urban competitiveness. It is against this background that the concept of the smart city has been introduced as a strategic device to encompass modern urban production factors in a common framework and to highlight the growing importance of Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), social and environmental capital in profiling the competitiveness of cities.[1] The significance of these two assets - social and environmental capital - itself goes a long way to distinguish smart cities from their more technology-laden counterparts, drawing a clear line between them and what goes under the name of either digital or intelligent cities.
Sant Cugat Proyecto Piloto Smart City.