Smart Cities: how ICT can make our cities greener?
The European Commission will launch a "Smart Cities and Communities Initiative" from 2014. The overall objective of this initiative is to accelerate development and deployment of integrated energy, transport and ICT solutions at local level to serve EU climate/energy targets.
Which actions would make sense to enable cities to become smart and sustainable? What are you views on energy efficiency? Smart grids deployment? How can cities improve their measurement and collection of data? And how can such data be put to good use at EU level?
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Be carefull that "intelligent
Be carefull that "intelligent" is not translated into big (ICT) industry profiting from making and running big government !
Centralised Command & Control is not "intelligent".
The primary question should be
How can cities help empowered citizens
make smarter choices?
I can point to the HYDRA project as an example of an enabler of distributing and separating controls.
E.g.
What we DO NOT WANT is serverside control of what is hapening in homes. Not "Go to my trust-me website to control the devices in your home".
What we DO WANT is empowered citizens able to manage
- energy consumption supported by e.g. dynamic energy pricing as prices fluctuate over time to express the most sustainable cost of energy.
- sound investments in e.g. home improvement to save energy / resources
- In-car and mobile empowerment to optimise trafic given support data on actual status (without all this tracking and "managing")
This study here: <http://bit
This study here: <http://bit.ly/KPIwMa> relates to a study done on consumer perceptions of living in smart homes (I suppose that this is relevant, since we shall soon be more urban than rural - worldwide!). It seems that, more than anything, money saving was the key perceived benefit of 'intelligent' homes! I wonder whether this actually is the key driver and if so, should we focus on it as an encouraging factor?