Comprender los desafíos y oportunidades de las ciudades inteligentes

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Comprender los desafíos y oportunidades de las ciudades inteligentes

Publicado: 14 de marzo de 2018 · Categoría: Cuadernos técnicos

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Infrastructure intelligence in one place Smart cities: understanding the challenges and opportunities How do you make a city smart? That is the underlying question that unites the responses to the SmartCitiesWorld/Philips Lighting survey, which draws on input from 150 thought leaders from across the world in association with Introduction The smart city concept will have different meanings in different cultures and can sound elusive until you break it down into practical terms. A good place to start is with the stupid realities many city dwellers accept as part of their daily lives. In some major cities, residents will spend four years of their lives trying to find a parking place. Elsewhere, they may find themselves stuck in an 182km-long traffic jam. Or they may have trouble sleeping because strong neon lights brighten up their street as if it were a soccer stadium. Using technology in particular the Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence to alleviate such situations would be good for citizens and cities. It is, for example, not uncommon in modern metropolises, for public lighting to account for half of the citys energy budget. In the short term, smart LED lights could use 50 per cent less power than traditional lights. (This is the very least that needs to happen if the worlds cities are going to cope with their growing populations.) In the near future, as dumb poles become smart, they could form the digital backbone of a city, giving citizens and officials...