Abstract
Abstract. Many small and medium-sized cities meet their limitations when it comes to deliver longer running smart city services and to manage the complexity of big data. There is a tendency to be stuck in pilots and smaller set-ups because the knowledge and innovation that is required for these projects and services can’t be obtained in organisations, where there is more focus on daily operations and maintaining service levels in welfare. At the same time there is a need for a scientific baseline in relation to move our urban areas towards a more sustainable future. Someone needs to deliver data that can document the challenges that cities stand up against reaching the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). This paper describes a case where the local university together with a research-based start-up company have taken an initiative to deploy and manage a network of multi-functional probes (MONTEM CityProbes) that contains a large number of sensors that can track a broad suite of environmental data in near real-time. The service is established with open data capabilities and with a hope to kickstart further innovations in smart city developments and to strengthen the IoT eco-system of the region. The specific example focusses on monitoring the air quality from 25 probes deployed in places with strategic importance and where there is heavy traffic intensity from fossil-fuelled motor vehicles.
Highlights
1.1 Smart Cities in generationsThe development and maturation of the smart city concepts and framework has been happening since the term was launched more than 10-15 years ago (Kitchin, 2014)
A general and global political consensus has been built around the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) that was launched just a few years ago
The following case for providing a scientific baseline for the indicators will focus on air quality and the impact it has on the well-being and environmental sustainability in cities
Summary
The development and maturation of the smart city concepts and framework has been happening since the term was launched more than 10-15 years ago (Kitchin, 2014). The second generation was mainly driven by some innovative cities such as Barcelona, Vancouver and Singapore and the most important characteristics from this generation was the ability to change the organizations with the right amount of creativity and innovation. They are mostly larger cities and metropoles (Mora et al, 2017). The third generation have come into bloom and the characteristic features of this new type of smart cities are very much related to co-creation and collaborative organizations They are driven by citizens and innovation networks where the local IoT ecosystem will play a prominent role (Cardullo and Kitchin, 2018)
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