Manu Arenas, Author at thesmartcityjournal.com

R&D in the context of Smart Cities

"Innovation is the most important individual factor to determine success in the 21st century” (Samuel L. Palmisano, at the NIS held in Washington in 2004)." “Smarter Cities” was one of the vertical lines defined by IBM in 2008 to be included as part of the “Smarter Planet” strategy"

ITS & SC Smart Transportation Systems and Smart Cities

Intelligent transport systems (ITS in English) have been used for decades, but the introduction of ICT has made them change at a faster speed, as well as interact with other sectors, such as that of smart cities Transport is a fundamental activity both for industry and for society as a whole. From the industrial point…

Public bicycle services: an overview on “Pedal Power”

Their origin may be tracked back to 1973, when the oil crisis started Barcelona launched Bicing in 2007 and now has 6,000 bicycles The second option for bicycles to be adopted as a means of transport are public bicycle services established in every given city. Such services may be tracked back to the year 1973.…

Critical communications

Technology must be up to expectations in emergency situations where security and reliability are required Motorola Solutions is already working on the use of mobile broadband in the concept of civil protection, public security or catastrophes Security is an essential component for the organization of cities and for professional and industrial activities. Whether it is…

The bicycle: The smartest urban means of transport

In the organization of a Smart City, transport is one of the most important and relevant areas: it is present in all the equations designed to solve the smart functionality Transport is at the base of some recurring city problems. Whether cities are big or small, traffic jams, pollution and accidents are undesired collateral effects…

The Teradata Universe “Data are the new currency”

"A last-generation airplane may generate more than 500 GB of data in one single flight" "We are still in the midst of an industrial economy, but it seems that we are shifting towards a digital process-based economy" "The so-called Business Intelligence is now starting to move towards BigData as a consequence of the conjunction of…

Interview with José Andrés García

"In Spain, technology moves faster than its specific applications" “People has been working with Big Data for years in Spain. The change does not lie in analytics itself, but in the arrival of new types of data”

The energy nervous system: Smart Grid

We are living at a time when it seems everything has to be ‘smart’. From smartphones to smart TVs, through smart homes and smart cars and now the smart city and the smart grid. While ‘smart’ is synonymous with ‘intelligent’, it also ultimately means the same as ‘connected’.

Light and transparency

"The lighting in smart cities is becoming a topic of conversation when preparing Smart management plans” “Introducing savings into the systems used to generate light is an imperative priority when planning and implementing cities” Cities need natural light, obviously, but they also require artificial lighting. Traditionally, in smart cities, this element has been overlooked,…

Interview with Carlo Ratti

Carlo Ratti is a civil engineer and architect who teaches at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he directs the SENSEable City Laboratory. He is a regular contributor of articles on architecture to the magazines Domus and Casabella and the Italian newspapers Il Sole 24 Ore and La Stampa.

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