Barcelona's Smart City Strategy
C40 cities;URENIO;   Nov 14.2018
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Introduction

Barcelona was awarded European Capital of Innovation 2014-2016 by the European Commission, for the holistic citywide approach of the Smart City project, for incorpo­rating the citizen at the centre of the initiative and for promoting synergies between city stakeholders and the public and private sector.

A governance model to align stakeholders (internal and external) along an innovation model and ecosystem of ur­ban partners was developed to ensure the stability of the project and its benefits in terms of economic and social output.

Barcelona's Smart City Strategy

Reason to Be Selected

Barcelona, Spain, is viewed as being among the top most advanced smart cities in the world, according to several recent surveys and is thus often considered a model for other cities to follow. Exactly what makes Barcelona smart is a topic worth exploring and could help guide other cities in their own development processes. Barcelona is particularly interesting because it has reinvented itself over the past 30 years.

Highlights:

Barcelona’s Smart City Strategy is currently formed by about 122 projects classified into 22 programmes that cover all areas of the city management, from Lighting, Water and Waste Management to Innovation and many others. Within Barcelona’s Smart City Strategy it is worth highlighting the importance of horizontal and open technological solutions and platforms applied in a transversal way to all city services. This helps achieve the goal of breaking from silos in information and solutions by enhancing efficiency and coordination. For this reason, two of these 22 programmes are of extreme importance due to their transversal and horizontal nature, allowing for many vertical solutions to be integrated into them: the Telecommunications Network and the Urban Platform.

Details

A bottom layer,collects the raw data produced by the city, and is formed by four groups of different kinds of data with their own logic and management: a sensors and actuators platform called Sentilo (currently providing measures for 2,200 parameters), the City Council’s information systems data (people, procedures, etc.), data from the city’s information systems (infrastructures, mobility, etc.), and data from Social Networks and Web 2.0.

Recommended

A City Operating System, the intelligence component of the Urban Platform, based on three elements: a City Model that pilots the City Operating System; a universal repository where all historic information of the city is stored; and a manager of information treatment processes that, based on the City Model, applies intelligence to the set of stored information.

A top layer formed by applications and control centres aimed at visualising the data and finding useful applications for it.

The Urban Platform, as well as many other programmes, relies on the city Telecommunications Network to transfer information. This network integrates all of the city’s Fiber Optic and Wi-Fi networks into one. In addition to being the corporate municipal network used by the City Council departments, the Telecommunications Network is also providing free Wi-Fi connectivity to citizens, with more than 500 access points already in operation throughout the city.

Conclusions

Barcelona’s Smart City Strategy takes a holistic view of the various projects being developed throughout the city and uses technology as a transversal tool to manage the city’s resources and services in a more efficient way. In doing so, it guarantees sustainable social, economic and urban development with the ultimate goal of improving the quality of life of Barcelona’s citizens.

 

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Barcelona's Smart City Strategy
Published on Friday, September 19, 2014 in C40 Cities
TOPICS | Barcelona | Intelligent | Facility

Reference:

 https://www.c40.org/case_studies/barcelona-s-smart-city-strategy

 https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5ae9016f697a98cf76170c5f/t/5b332752352f535c7e7f82eb/1530079073154/Barcelona.pdf

 https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/4/226370-building-a-smart-city/fulltext



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Region: Europe
Scale: City
Field: Facility
City: Barcelona
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