Smart cities require smart infrastructure. Whether it’s sustainability, quality of life, economic growth—or all three— infrastructure needs to be the starting point for any smart city strategy. Consider the following:
- There will be approximately 27 billion connected IoT devices by 2025
- Cities produce 60% of global greenhouse gas emissions
- Poor air quality kills almost 7 million people worldwide annually
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A global study of 200 cities by ThoughtLab analyses how cities are future-proofing their urban environments and provides a blueprint for going forward.
Social, economic, and environmental disruptions, heightened by the pandemic, are changing the expectations and behaviours of citizens, requiring urban leaders around the world to develop action plans to become future-ready.
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The Smart City idea aids the administration in enhancing economic efficiency, sustainability of the environment, a better quality of life, education, security, and transportation. Using smart city technology, residents may engage with civic infrastructure while comprehensively monitoring the city and optimising services to be more effective. It decreases total expenses, waste, and resource consumption as a result.
The best aspect is that it raises the level of liveability, urban services, and workplace conditions! Additionally, the idea of a ‘Smart City’ fosters more fantastic communication between the public and the local government!
The Smart City Expo World Congress will take place in Barcelona on 15-17 November, and several Luxembourg representatives will be present. Here are some of their visions of smarter urban design.
In its Smart City Strategy Index (SCSI) 2019, global consulting firm Roland Berger analysed 153 cities worldwide, ranking Vienna as number one. The Austrian capital scored a total 74 points out of 100. London took second place (73 points), while third place (72 points) went to St. Albert, Canada, which has a population comparable to that of Luxembourg City.
Many things have been said about smart cities in the last few years. In fact, we can find various definitions of it just by looking into different perspectives such as applications and infrastructure. The reality is that this concept keeps changing and evolving as well as the problems to tackle and the technology to do so.
The definition that may be more suitable for this matter is the one that points out cities using ICTs and telecommunications infrastructure to improve the efficiency and quality of their citizens. In the end, these last two terms are the ones that rule the success of a Smart city.
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