Abstract
Urban ecosystems are becoming one of the most potentially attractive scenarios for innovating new services and technologies. In parallel, city managers, urban utilities, and other stakeholders are fostering the intensive use of advanced technologies aiming at improving present city performance and sustainability. The deployment of such technology entails the generation of massive amounts of information which in many cases might become useful for other services and applications. Hence, aiming at taking advantage of such massive amounts of information and deployed technology as well as breaking down the potential digital barrier, some easy-to-use tools have to be made available to the urban stakeholders. These tools integrated in a platform, operated directly, or indirectly by the city, provide a singular opportunity for exploiting the concept of connected city whilst promoting innovation in all city dimensions and making the co-creation concept a reality, with an eventual impact on government policies.
Highlights
Internet of Things (IoT) technology is steadily becoming an omnipresent reality, leveraging connected ecosystems where ubiquitous connectivity and big data applications are enabling innovation all around the world
The definition and use of common and harmonized data models, using semantic descriptions, enables the conception of new innovative solutions to interact with city services and to manage the urban environment, which can be replicable in other urban ecosystems
Existing regulations within public administrations are slowing down the process in some cities, with all these considerations in mind, we believe that we have identified a solid model for integrated city management that relies on the synergies between the public and private sector
Summary
Internet of Things (IoT) technology is steadily becoming an omnipresent reality, leveraging connected ecosystems where ubiquitous connectivity and big data applications are enabling innovation all around the world. More sustainable management of the city services such as transportation, energy and waste management, health and social care for dependent people is required, avoiding the creation of an unsustainable sea of vertical solutions for every urban service For this purpose, the use of the Future Internet (FI) together with IoT technologies is considered an enabler to foster the transformation towards the smart city paradigm. The involvement and education of the different stakeholders in the new initiatives need to be considered from the very beginning to consolidate the different communities within the city innovation ecosystem To this end, cities need to develop their own smart city vision, defining the strategies to engage and mobilize final users of their services to participate in the new initiatives.
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