For the past few years, cities have embarked on their digital transformation to achieve energy efficiency. The development of the Smart City is one of the unavoidable challenges for municipalities and their administration. Ecological, adapted to rapid urban development, hyper-connected, the city of the future must meet numerous challenges to optimize the quality of life for its growing population and address the innovation issues that are essential to becoming a true Smart City.
Table of Contents
1. What is the concept of a Smart City?
2. The "smart" challenges of the city of the future
3. Smart City and the improvement of urban quality of life on a large scale
4. Data management at the center of the "smart city" revolution
5. Focus on some challenges of a Smart City
1. What is the concept of a Smart City?
According to the CNIL, the concept of a Smart City is defined as follows:
The Smart City, or intelligent city, is a new concept of sustainable urban development. It aims to improve the quality of life for city dwellers by making the city more adaptive and efficient, using new technologies that rely on an ecosystem of objects and services. The scope covering this new mode of city management includes public infrastructure (buildings, urban furniture, home automation, etc.), networks (water, electricity, gas, telecoms), transportation (public transport, smart roads and cars, carpooling, soft mobility - biking, walking, etc.), e-services, and e-administrations.