Smart city initiatives are generating vast amounts of data from sensors, cameras, mobile devices, and digital service platforms, offering new opportunities to understand how cities function in real time. Researchers are increasingly exploring whether artificial intelligence (AI) systems can integrate these diverse data sources to improve urban planning, infrastructure management, and traffic prediction.
The study Multi-Modal Artificial Intelligence for Smart Cities: Experimental Integration of Textual and Sensor Data, published in the journal Future Internet, analyses how multi-modal AI models can combine traffic sensor data and citizen-reported text information to enhance predictions of traffic congestion severity.
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Bulldozed! Dispossession and the Homogenised Mind
For much of humanity’s existence, our traditional worldview or cosmos was based on sacred, reciprocal relationships with the land and governed by natural seasons and localised community rhythms. What we are currently seeing, however, is an accelerated shift from a physical universe rooted in seasons and community to a virtual one mediated by screens and platforms.
In this new world order, human experience is mediated by mobile apps and predictive algorithms that convert human actions into data points. At the same time, spontaneous ‘messy’ human interaction is engineered away in favour of a sterile, predictable environment. This system encloses both urban and rural life, replacing the sacred and reciprocal relationships between humans and the land with a computational universe where creativity is harnessed to serve corporate extraction.
While rivals chase global scale with standardised models, Daniil Shuleyko, CEO of Yango Group, takes a different approach, building city by city based on what people actually need
For the past decade, “smart city” has been one of the most overhyped phrases in technology, and one of the most disappointing. From Toronto to Singapore, top-down projects have crashed against the same wall: cities are not blank slates. They are alive, chaotic, and resistant to master plans.
Weiterlesen: Daniil Shuleyko on how Yango Group is building an operating system for the city
Inside the real-time technology turning streets and neighbourhoods into spaces that adapt to how people live
Imagine stepping out of your front door on a Tuesday morning, and the city already knows you are running five minutes late. The traffic lights on your usual route have adjusted.
The bus is holding just a moment longer. The pavement beneath your feet, embedded with quiet sensors, has already logged your footsteps as part of a living, breathing data stream that helps the city breathe better too.
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A glimpse into a future where technology breathes with us, making our urban spaces more sustainable and connected.
As we move deeper into the decade, the concept of a "home" is shifting from a simple physical shelter to an intelligent ecosystem. By 2030, our cities won't just be concrete jungles; they will be living, breathing organisms powered by Artificial Intelligence and renewable energy. This transition is not just about luxury; it’s about survival and sustainability in a rapidly changing world.
Weiterlesen: Living in 2030: How Smart Cities are Redefining Human Life