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By 2050, there will be 2.5 billion more people living in cities than today. How is rapid urbanization set to impact investors and the global economy?
Judy Curtis / SIPR's insight:
A Global ShiftOver the coming decades, the large-scale role of cities will become even more amplified as rapid urbanization spills over to the rest of the world.Billions of people — especially in Asia and Africa — will be seeking opportunities in cities over the coming decades. Between 2018 and 2050, the global urban population will increase from 55% to 68%, adding another 2.5 billion people to cities around the world. Rank Country Urban population growth (2018-2050) #1 India 416 million people #2 China 255 million people #3 Nigeria 189 million people
Nearly 90% of this growth will be in Africa and Asia, with India alone adding 416 million new people to its cities — more than any other country in the world over this timeframe.
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While 2018 was filled with a number of successful smart city deployments, it also revealed significant challenges that will only intensify in years to come. The most pressing challenge to be addressed throughout 2019 is earning the public’s trust in smart city projects. Towards the end of 2018, we saw major data privacy concerns emerge from citizens. From these concerns a heated, but healthy discourse between citizens, local governments, and private sector companies rose to mainstream media prominence. Citizens’ expectations of privacy have begun to challenge the murky data privacy policies described by many in the private sector. 2019 will be the year of the smart city for the citizen.
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Officials in several countries are getting the message: Cities are about people, not cars.
Judy Curtis / SIPR's insight:
A walking city is a smart city, where you can leave the car out of the equation and lose the noise and pollution. It's possible, even in large capital cities. "...and all urban design should think first about the only transit equipment that comes factory-standard for the average human being — our feet."
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In September 2015, the FBI released an official warning to the public about the dangers of the Internet of Things (IoT) ㄧ Have our devices become any safer since?
Judy Curtis / SIPR's insight:
In September 2015, the FBI released an official warning to the public about the dangers of the Internet of Things (IoT) ㄧ Have our devices become any safer since?
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The country’s highest administrative court ruled that diesel vehicles may be banned from city streets as part of efforts to improve air quality.
Judy Curtis / SIPR's insight:
The case before the Federal Administrative Court has dominated public discussion in Germany because of its potential to deal a severe blow to the country’s auto industry three years after it was found to have lied about the pollution levels emitted by its cherished diesel technology.
Deutsche Umwelthilfe, an environmental and consumer rights organization, set the lawsuits in motion after German automakers bet their futures on diesel technology they billed as environmentally friendly, even while rigging software in their cars to pass stringent emissions tests. Frustrated with the lack of progress in improving air quality in about 70 of the country’s most polluted cities, Deutsche Umwelthilfe brought lawsuits against the local governments, demanding that they uphold the air quality standards set by the European Union and ban certain vehicles, mostly ones that use diesel. “The days of flooding the inner cities with poisonous diesel emissions are over,” said Jürgen Resch, managing director of Deutsche Umwelthilfe. “These vehicles have no place in our cities anymore.”
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Turning Palma de Mallorca into a smart tourist destination by improving the quality of its environment is the goal of the Balearic Harbors Authority project implemented by Libelium and Mallorcawifi.com. A wide network of Waspmote Plug & Sense Smart Cities sensors is deployed all around the Mallorcan harbor to measure the impact of the arrival of ships and cruise liners, and other port activity.
Judy Curtis / SIPR's insight:
The Smart Cities harbor project deployed in the city of Palma measures two basic environmental parameters that most affect citizens’ health: air quality and noise. The project is placing 27 Waspmote Plug & Sense! Smart Environment PRO in various locations around Palma’s harbor, and five Waspmote Plug & Sense! Smart Cities devices.
These devices are set to collect data provided by 81 sensors measuring carbon dioxide, sulfur dioxide, ozone, noise, temperature, humidity, air pressure, wind, and rainfall, among other factors.
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Transformer la ville en « Smart City » pour faciliter la vie quotidienne des habitants, réduire la facture énergétique et favoriser le bien vivre ensemble c’est l’objectif que se fixent désormai
Judy Curtis / SIPR's insight:
Cet ouvrage constitue un outil de réflexion méthodologique à destination des élus, cadres et agents des collectivités territoriales, mais également des autres parties prenantes (État, entreprises, associations, citoyens…).
This means: This book is a methodological reflection tool for elected officials, managers and agents of local authorities, but also other stakeholders (state, companies, associations, citizens ...). We suppose the citizen-initiative aspect would be covered in another volume.
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Weirdly, we’re still building corporate campuses like it’s the 1950s.
Judy Curtis / SIPR's insight:
Why do we remain so wedded to the old suburban, car-dependent model for workplaces? If autonomous vehicles (or even flying ones) are truly imminent, why are we building millions of square feet of supposedly soon-to-be-obsolete parking spaces? With so many studies touting the benefits of walkable, bike-able and transit-accessible environments, why are we designing in such a way that makes long, painful commutes inevitable?
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Santiago Martin Caravaca interview the Mayor of Wien, Budapest, Oslo, Medellin, Trieste, Ljubljana and the Deputy Mayor of Amsterdam. Let Smart Cities Talk!
Judy Curtis / SIPR's insight:
Are smart cities a laboratory for politics? Mayors and deputy mayors of seven important European regional capitals, all committed to smart cities, give voice to their (political) priorities on such initiatives:
- Citizens first, rather than technology first - Innovation - Importance of learning by doing - Quality of life - Social responsiveness - Make tech tools and information readily available to citizens And... so far there is no template, no "one-size-fits-all."
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Internet of things Blog Best List. Keep up with smart city iot blog,IoT blog, IoT cloud blog, smart grids iot blog, intelligent transportation iot blog,energy management iot blog,Building and home automation iot blog,Building and home automation iot blog,Keep up with Internet of things Blog, Internet of things by following top Internet of things sites.
Judy Curtis / SIPR's insight:
Best IoT blogs around the internet...
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Evenly spread over all of the world’s mountains, deserts and other terrains, we would be standing 150 metres away from our nearest neighbours. In the most densely populated cities – from Dhaka to Medellin – we’re right on top of them
Judy Curtis / SIPR's insight:
Modernist architecture and urbanism made the control of density one of its main concepts, with Le Corbusier and his followers advocating huge, dense buildings surrounded by natural landscape, giving an overall more civilised urban form. And in the postwar rebuilding programme, this notion of “towers in the park” with strictly controlled dwellings per hectare limits, and the construction of the New Towns, meant there was a determined political effort to lower urban densities.
Then something strange happened. Not only did modernist urbanism not seem to alleviate urban problems, but the aversion to high density began to be overturned. In the early 1960s Jane Jacobs tried to counter the ideas of Howard and Le Corbusier through her deep observation of ordering systems in high-density neighbourhoods, ideas that would later be taken up by the New Urbanists, who reacted against both modernist planning and the sprawl of American suburbia. In 1990s Britain, Richard Rogers and the Urban Task Force advocated high density residential development along the lines of the city of Barcelona (density of 15,000 people/sq km), with its consistent superblocks as a civilised counterpart to suburbia. This argument for density is echoed by geographers such as Richard Florida, who point out that the entire point of the city is the dense proximity of people, leading to what he calls “collision density”, and all the innovations of modern life. Higher density city environments can also be more efficient, with greater public transport use and shorter journeys. Clustering dwellings together also means they share in each other’s energy loads – so density can have a significant effect on reducing carbon emissions. “Anyone who believes that global warming is a real danger should see dense urban living as part of the solution,” as Harvard’s Ed Glaeser puts it.
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The IoT Security Attack on Dyn servers in September 2016 was the #1 story of the IoT 2016 year. Amazon Echo is the consumer IoT product of the year
Judy Curtis / SIPR's insight:
Security and interoperability are still key concerns for the Internet of Things. And now, AR/VR and artificial intelligence are adding to the buzz.
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Libelium is calling for cities with severe levels of air pollution and extreme meteorological conditions to take part in a test of its new air quality measurement technology.
Judy Curtis / SIPR's insight:
Here's a solution to help urban air management: IoT technology manufacturer Libelium is offering to install for free its Air Quality Station air pollution analysis metrology devices in cities that meet its set of criteria.
The new Air Quality Station is based on machine learning algorithms and statistical data analysis. The device learns and improves its accuracy as it acquires data that is compared and analysed with those recorded by official reference stations.
“With this new platform, Libelium helps smart cities to add capillarity to their urban air measurement network,” said Alicia Asin, CEO of Libelium.
“Many cities have a single device with high metrological capacity that costs hundreds of thousands of euros so they can only measure pollution levels in a certain location. With IoT technology, more measurement points can be added with quality and precision devices that reduce the required investment to a tenth of the cost.”
Libelium reports it has tested the new technology at five sites with different weather conditions and different pollution levels to feed the artificial intelligence (AI) of the device and provide continuous improvement in the accuracy of the device.
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Many modern urban areas have been built around cars, with huge amounts of space set aside for roads and parking. But what happens when you take them out of the equation?
Judy Curtis / SIPR's insight:
Not all cities can be as car-free as Venice - but all city planners can bring pedestrians and cyclists to the forefront #smartcities #IoT
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The city will remain the centerpiece of economic growth in the 21st century. Here's how we're using smart city technology to optimize them even further.
Judy Curtis / SIPR's insight:
Smart city solutions will fall into six broad categories, transforming the urban landscape: 1. Infrastructure 2. Buildings 3. Utilities 4. Transport 5. Environment 6. Life
Guy Lagaeysse's curator insight,
January 18, 2019 9:14 AM
La population des villes est en constante augmentation (55 % de la population mondiale vit dans des villes).
Les villes sont amenées à devenir un moteur encore plus important de l'économie mondiale et de la richesse; Elles doivent se transformer pour améliorer la qualité, la performance et l'interactivité des ses services, réduire les coûts et la consommation de ressources et accroître les contacts entre les citoyens et le gouvernement.
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"Connecting objects and devices through the Internet of Things (IoT) can help solve the greatest challenges of our time, from cutting emissions to feeding a growing population," believes Alicia Asín, CEO and co-founder of Spanish technology company Libelium which makes IoT hardware. Asín was the second-place winner of the 2018 EU Prize for Women Innovators.
Judy Curtis / SIPR's insight:
How do you think IoT is changing cities and society? ‘The IoT is creating a data culture by introducing the concept of measure, think, and then make a decision. If you’re the mayor of a city and decide to implement a congestion charge or restrict access to diesel vehicles but you cannot demonstrate the levels of pollution, citizens will think the decision came down to political or ideological reasons. But if you can back up the decision with data, then that’s working towards more transparency.’ - Alicia Asin, CEO & co-founder, Libelium
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Karen Tay, Singapore's Smart Nation director, was recently in Washington D.C. to run a workshop for the World Bank on how to develop “smart cities." She says: “'Smart cities' is honestly a buzzword... when I get invited to speak, most people expect me to start with cool tech like AR, VR, AI, modeling and simulation, blockchain and the like. The fact is that cities are complex ecosystems with very established ways of operating. If we want to disrupt them with technology in a way that benefits the masses (i.e. not just the upper middle class), we need dedicated work from the ground-up, coupled with political commitment." Karen Tay's five tips for smart city efforts come from conversations and projects with smart city leaders around the world.
Judy Curtis / SIPR's insight:
Building a smart city is ultimately about creating momentum throughout society to deploy tech for public good.
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Le sujet agite l'Ile-de-France depuis plus d'un an. En septembre 2016, la Mairie de Paris a décidé de fermer à la circulation les 3,5 kilomètres de la voie sur berge Georges-Pompidou, dans le centre de la capitale. Avec quels effets sur la pollution ? Mardi 10 octobre, Airparif, l’organisme indépendant chargé de surveiller la qualité de l’air en Ile-de-France, a publié le rapport définitif de sa campagne de suivi du projet. Franceinfo fait le bilan. Via Hubert MESSMER
Judy Curtis / SIPR's insight:
This subject has agitated the Ile-de-France region -- where Paris is located -- for over a year. In September 2016, the Paris City Council decided to close 3.5 km of the Georges-Pompidou riverside expressway to car traffic in the center of the capital. What are the effects on air pollution? On Tuesday, 10 October, Airparif, the independent body responsible for monitoring air quality in Ile-de-France, published the final report of its follow-up campaign. Franceinfo takes stock of the findings...
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Delivery supply chains are inching toward electrification. Here are the leaders where EVs and old-school logistics converge.
Judy Curtis / SIPR's insight:
Truck deliveries without the noise and fumes from idling diesel engines are welcome in our smart cities. From new types of on-demand trucking models to incremental electrification among large corporate fleets, here's a rundown of seven companies to watch in the delivery space, from Lauren Hepler in Greenbiz.
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IoT gateways were used as part of a smart city project in the Dordrecht. Sensors were introduced to monitor pedestrians, cyclists & vehicles.
Judy Curtis / SIPR's insight:
For a city with no track record of data-based planning, insights into rush hours, recession periods and movement trends have transformed the ability of public authorities to make smarter urban planning decisions. Passive Wi-Fi monitoring systems such as the Meshlium IoT Gateways could also provide useful information regarding footfall to local businesses.
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Friday: Lighter pavements to fight the heat in Los Angeles
Judy Curtis / SIPR's insight:
LA Mayor Eric Garcetti has predicted that the city could reduce its so-called urban heat island effect — caused by dark surfaces, lack of vegetation and discharges from traffic and industry — by three degrees over the next 20 years. Proponents of cool pavements say that aside from providing greater physical comfort, even a small drop in temperatures would reduce energy use and mitigate the health risks associated with extreme heat.
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it turns out that some existing infrastructure could act as a sensor already–no new tech needed.
Judy Curtis / SIPR's insight:
Making cities smart doesn’t necessarily mean embedding sensors and cameras everywhere, an expensive and time-consuming endeavor. It turns out that some existing infrastructure – such as cables and cell phone towers - could act as a sensor already, with no new tech needed.
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The U.S. is continuing to become more suburban, with sprawling metro areas spreading out further. But the most dense places are tending to become denser.
Judy Curtis / SIPR's insight:
All of the largest East Coast and Midwest metro areas became more dense, including New York, Washington, Boston, Philadelphia and Chicago (though less so than Seattle). These places, five of the seven densest, were already relatively tightly packed to begin with. The other two densest metro areas, San Francisco and Los Angeles, suburbanized only slightly.
By contrast, none of the places where sprawl increased most between 2010 and 2016 — Austin, San Antonio, Houston and Oklahoma City — had been especially urban even in 2010. The metro areas that are becoming more dense include two, New York and Washington, that are home to the media outlets where much of the writing about cities appears. Furthermore, metro areas that are urbanizing have more than their fair share of urban planners, including Seattle, Minneapolis, Washington and Boston. Those who write about, advocate for and choose to live in cities really do see more urbanization around them. But their cities are the exceptions. Most large metro areas, including the fastest-growing ones, as well as America over all, are increasingly suburban.
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» 6000 ans d’urbanisation en une carte, c’est ici ! |
Judy Curtis / SIPR's insight:
On a global scale, the first urbanization movements appear in connection with the rise of industry. If in 1900 only 10% of the world population lived in the city, today we are at 54%. If this evolution is already impressive, urbanization is still in its infancy. Indeed, according to forecasts, 75% of the world population will live in cities in 2030. To understand the magnitude of the phenomenon, Metroscom offers an interactive mapping of the appearance of cities from 3,700 BC to the year 2000.
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Dublin has a range of cutting-edge technology projects underway, but the one that Smart City Program Manager Jamie Cudden is particularly excited about is the Academy of the Near Future.
The education and skills programme, a collaboration between CONNECT at Trinity College Dublin, Dublin City Council and the Smart Docklands testbed, aims to bring a broader range of people into the conversation about new technologies through interactive workshops, hands-on activities and online resources.
“There’s all this technology and it’s moving so fast, but we need to educate people in the public sector and citizens about the potential of these technologies, what the risks are and how we can make the most of new tools,” Cudden says.
While there are a growing number of academic courses about smart cities and data, Cudden saw a gap for practical sessions based on real-life implementations and experience. Through the Academy, local authority staff and secondary school students get the chance to see sensors in action, understand how they work and prototype their own solutions.