Many cities are trying to incoroporate some of the key fields of the smart city model (smart economy-smart mobility-smart environment-smart people-smart living-smart governance) in their development and design. The production model of today is based on oil as raw material and source of energy, on mass production and on a standardised global economic system. This model of course is not sustainable and cannot continue to shape the future of cities since manufacturing left the city and moved miles away, which led to an increase in consumption of fossil fuels, reduced work opportunities and – worst of all – separated consumption operations from production processes. Cities have turned into vast rubbish factories and their survival depends on the technology that is produced far away. They are the physical manifestation of our current consumption-based model. Cities need to innovate and create their own technology to share with other urban centers.(source: http://lameva.barcelona.cat/bcnmetropolis/en/dossier/dels-fab-labs-a-les-fab-cities/)
Barcelona is trying to turn to a self-sufficient fully productive city made up of citizens who share knowledge to solve local problems and set up new businesses and education schemes. The Fab City concept is a vindication of the idea of the citizen as the true centre of knowledge, the start and end point of a chain that links together researchers, universities, industry, commerce, the government, etc. It’s about producing locally, using both cutting-edge and basic technology, and sharing it to drive the development of new solutions at any given moment, anywhere in the world. Creating a network of digital fabrication labs (Fab Labs) it will be able to communicate with other cities, exchange know-how and work on solutions to community problems. It is possible to use waste as raw material and recycle plastic to do 3D printing.
Amsterdam is also establishing smart city practices like City-Zen Smart Grid in New West district which has a large amount of solar panels and therefore has been chosen for the construction of the first smart grid in the Netherlands. This intelligent electricity network (Smart Grid) contains additional computers and sensors placed in the grid. As such current and voltage are monitored continuously to provide more accurate monitoring and control functions. The smart grid provides with better and cheaper options to facilitate energy transition. So their electricity supply is based on an organised system of controlling the energy produced by solar power since this grid is equipped with computer and sensor technology at key nodes. Therefore maintenance is targeted and as a result the network is cheaper and the number of power failures decreases.
(source:http://amsterdamsmartcity.com/projects/detail/id/17/slug/city-zen-smart-grid#)
Smart Citizen from smartcitizen on Vimeo.Barcelona is trying to turn to a self-sufficient fully productive city made up of citizens who share knowledge to solve local problems and set up new businesses and education schemes. The Fab City concept is a vindication of the idea of the citizen as the true centre of knowledge, the start and end point of a chain that links together researchers, universities, industry, commerce, the government, etc. It’s about producing locally, using both cutting-edge and basic technology, and sharing it to drive the development of new solutions at any given moment, anywhere in the world. Creating a network of digital fabrication labs (Fab Labs) it will be able to communicate with other cities, exchange know-how and work on solutions to community problems. It is possible to use waste as raw material and recycle plastic to do 3D printing.
Amsterdam is also establishing smart city practices like City-Zen Smart Grid in New West district which has a large amount of solar panels and therefore has been chosen for the construction of the first smart grid in the Netherlands. This intelligent electricity network (Smart Grid) contains additional computers and sensors placed in the grid. As such current and voltage are monitored continuously to provide more accurate monitoring and control functions. The smart grid provides with better and cheaper options to facilitate energy transition. So their electricity supply is based on an organised system of controlling the energy produced by solar power since this grid is equipped with computer and sensor technology at key nodes. Therefore maintenance is targeted and as a result the network is cheaper and the number of power failures decreases.
(source:http://amsterdamsmartcity.com/projects/detail/id/17/slug/city-zen-smart-grid#)
Smart Citizen platform
Smart Citizen is a platform to generate participatory processes of people in the cities. Connecting data, people and knowledge, the objective of the platform is to serve as a node for building productive and open indicators, and distributed tools, and thereafter the collective construction of the city for its own inhabitants.The Smart Citizen project is based on geolocation, the Internet and free hardware and software for data collection and sharing. It connects people with their environment and their city to create more effective and optimized relationships between resources, technology, communities, services and events in the urban environment. (source: https://smartcitizen.me/about)
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Smart Furniture
Urban equipment can also be 'smart' and contribute to a real time feedback of city data contributing to better and innovative ways of solving everyday life problems.
Soofa Bench is a solar-powered bench that charges phones and monitors its environment. Launched in Boston, now in 12 States and 5 countries. It is also a platform for sensors to monitor its environment and is made of sustainably harvested materials and solar powered. No wiring or infrastructure is required to get going.
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