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Come with Belinda and chat about dreamhamar’s latest events and developments. We have one more week of…Continue reading. A network for rapid and sustainable ICT regional adoption. Planned Portuguese Eco-City Is Controlled By A Central Computer Brain. A new eco-city planned in Portugal takes a cue from biology, using a centralized computer "brain" to control functions like water use, waste processing and energy consumption.
It's the biggest attempt at urban metabolism, which attempts to compare cities to living organisms. PlanIT Valley, in southern Portugal near the town of Paredes, will use a network of sensors much like a nervous system to collect data and control the city, New Scientist reports. A firm called Living PlanIT is leading the effort, and aims to make PlanIT Valley a low-carbon city that also provides a European alternative to Silicon Valley. The $19 billion city could be built by 2015, beating Abu Dhabi's Masdar City by five years. As a centrally operated smart municipality, it's more ambitious than Masdar or China's stalled Dongtan project. Redesigning the urban future at Digital Cities'11.