Cities 5.0

Objectives:

The comprehensive incorporation of the Internet of Things (IoT) has been identified as a key enabler for data-driven management, providing the city with a reliable digital twin that can support both operational reliability and strategic planning.

Cities rely on key concepts such as interoperability, cybersecurity and collaborative work based on the use and promotion of these technologies to build a new concept of future Smart cities: “City 5.0: A Human Adaptive City”, aiming to develop and deploy human, sustainable, open, interoperable city services over a hyper-connected and hyper-automated devices and a data-driven-city.

To play a role in establishing standards for the IoT, which has not yet reached the level of maturity required to protect the investment needed for its widespread deployment, working with other stakeholders and cities to achieve viable deployments through economies of scale, matching the low level objects standardization initiatives such as the one of OMA SpecWorks, and the higher level ones as FiWARE Smart Data Objects, to continue the development of the Solution Architecture Template based con the eGovERA reference architecture.

It is crucial that all parties, from academia and researchers to cutting-edge start-ups, collaborate in an integrated process that leverages solid foundations such as ontologies, telecommunications networks, big data, and artificial intelligence. For this reason, the IoTMADLab.es initiative will serve as a first example fostering private, public partnerships to improve the best life quality and welfare and efficiency of public service.

The adoption of these technologies by companies that have traditionally provided services in the city requires an organized transfer of knowledge. It is essential that the municipal organisation can absorb an enormous volume of data of the highest quality and change its operating procedures to manage based on results and not efforts. But data quality and availability turn to be a critical asset.

The activities promoted by cities form part of a plan for the progressive incorporation of IoT in every aspect of the city. The activities of City of Madrid will serve as a starting point and one of the best examples. These activities are based on cells called "smart urban spaces". These are areas of the city where IoT technology is intensively deployed in several verticals. They allow municipal technicians, companies, and citizens to experiment with the results that will be achieved. The convenience of the solutions will facilitate the scaling of the model in a collaborative way with municipal areas and the companies that contract to provide their services.

Objective is to seek the confluence of all these approaches, so that innovation culminates (TRLs 7-8-9) in effective and efficient use of IoT in cities.

Points of View

Promote the sharing of use cases and challenges.

Align the objectives in the collaborations and projects.

Coordinate documentation on the topics identified in strategy meetings and organize teams to meet those objectives.

Contribute to sustainability goals for cities while improving the quality of life of their citizens.

Scale Ups

Issue challenges to companies and start-ups with the objective of developing and testing more efficient solutions based on interoperability that allows for secure integration.

Drive efforts to expand solutions and facilitate the early incorporation of new standards.

Develop and maintain a comprehensive, up-to-date document that outlines the various projects related to smart cities across multiple sectors.

Promote the dissemination of results through project presentations.

Design and develop a systematic approach to the development of use cases, with replicability and scalability as design premises.

Research and Innovation

Creation of consortia and projects for Eu funded projects.

Facilitate the dissemination of ongoing project results and the introduction of solutions aimed at scaling them up.

Contribute to the definition of an EU strategy for the integration of the IoT sector into the smart city.

Promote the evolution of reference architectures for smart cities, the development of associated ontologies and interoperable interfaces that allow sharing information and comparing results.

Establish common activities with ongoing Horizon Europe projects.