Fire Safety in Smart Cities in Hungary With Regard to Urban Planning

Abstract

Today, smart city principles are emerging as a highly relevant method in contemporary urban planning and development. In line with international trends, nations almost without exception have smart city strategies. The assessment system supporting smart development strategies for EU municipalities defines complex indicators in six thematic sub-systems: smart mobility, smart environment, smart people, smart living conditions, smart governance, smart economy. One monitoring aspect of the smart living subsystem is safety. The smart cities of the future will be made up of a network of smart buildings, which will fundamentally determine fire safety based on prevention. In this monitoring theme, the researchers will show how the future of fire safety - a cornerstone of safety- will evolve in smart buildings of smart cities. The researchers will describe the potential of building a smart fire safety network using data generated by building information modelling. They will show how BIM-based complex digital fire safety can be integrated into the fire safety network based on the new digital “one urban one plan” regulation in Hungary. The authors show that their method is suitable for the expansion of a smart cities database based on a digital urban plan.