Miguel Ángel Santos, Author at thesmartcityjournal.com

Interview with: Zou Zhilei

Zou Zhilei is the President of Huawei’s Carrier Network business group. In this role oversees the group’s strategic direction, operations and development roadmap, leading the business group as it strives to become a leading strategic partner for telecom carriers.

Big Data, IoT

Proposal for managing mobility in city centres

Saba has also added specific solutions to its approach to management concepts of mobility in city centres, such as the implementation of the VIA T parking access and payment system. In 2014, 4.4 million VIA T transactions were registered in over 40 car parks.

Mobility, Smart Systems, Technological Solutions

Interview with Federico Olavarri

“The world is at the beginning of a new era of progress. Yet between revolutions there is a disruptive period where old systems are challenged. Right now we are at the turning point. ICT will form future cities around the world.

Citizenship, ICT, Information Society, New Technologies, Technological Solutions

I, Robot?

Do the quick changes in artificial intelligence (AI) and automation promise a future where robots dramatically decrease the demand of human employees? In a world still recovering after the deep economy crisis of 2008, and with unemployment affecting many countries, the image of new technologies is reflected in two confronting mirrors: from improving productivity to…

Citizenship, Featured Article, Future Cities, Internet, New Technologies

Driverless, electric taxis for single passengers

A study has assessed that, in the USA alone, the anual savings on fuel could reach 7 million oil barrels, while the reduction of contamination could reach 2,4 tonnes of CO2 Car manufacturers and technologic companies in the USA are working on the development of a sub-type of electric vehicles that will serve as taxis,…

Ecotechnology, Electric Vehicles, Mobility, Sustainability, Sustainable Development, Technological Solutions

Interview with Marieta del Rivero

Marieta del Rivero, General Manager Deputy to CCDO / Telefónica, S.A “Telefónica stands up for an open, safe internet experience as the basis for the development of Digital Economy. We need cooperative, open models that foster the new economy. The Smart City platform should be open, standard, cloud-based and determined to break the silos of…

Digital Cities, ICT, Information Society

Ericsson Mobility Report

Advanced mobile technology will be globally ubiquitous by 2020 with 70 percent of people using smartphones and 90 percent covered by mobile broadband networks • Smartphone subscriptions will more than double by 2020, reaching 6.1 billion. Almost 80% of these new subscriptions will come from Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa. By 2020 80 percent…

Big Data, Information Society, Internet, Mobile Technology, New Technologies

A Technology Top 10 to keep changing the world

As it does every year, the MIT Technology Review magazine (belonging to the renowned Massachusetts Institute of Technology) has chosen those emerging technologies with the potential for disruptive change in a few years.

Big Data, Digital Cities, New Technologies, Technological Solutions

Human-scale tourism

Smart solutions to be applied in smart cities of several sizes are already available Two discussion sessions were performed, along with two fieldwork sessions Braganza and Mirandela, in the north-east of Portugal, hosted a 4-day meeting of international experts to analyze the application of new technologies to tourist activity.

Smart Cities, Tourism

Bragança, a Smart destiny

From 4 to 7 December, the Northeast of Portugal will host the first international forum on Tourism, Smart Cities and ICT It will be in Portugal, but not in Lisbon; nor in Oporto. The appointment will be even further, further up on the map: the former province of Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, a Portuguese historic…