IDHUS Institute

Connected Vehicles and Smart Infrastructure: Building Cooperative Mobility Networks for Smart Cities

By IDHUS Institute Jan 09, 2026

The next phase of urban mobility is defined less by the performance of individual vehicles and more by the computational integration of vehicles, infrastructure, and public systems into a coordinated urban platform. In this model, mobility becomes a cyber-physical service continuously shaped by real-time data, distributed intelligence, and automated control loops that span roads, intersections, public transport corridors, logistics routes, and pedestrian environments. The strategic objective is not merely to reduce travel time, but to transform the city into an adaptive system capable of sensing…

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AI uses and applications

From Data to Decisions: How AI Is Powering the Smart City Revolution

By IDHUS Institute Jan 02, 2026

Cities have always been loci of complex decision-making, where operational imperatives such as public transport dispatch, waste collection, incident response, and street-level maintenance coexist with strategic responsibilities including housing supply, land-use regulation, climate resilience, and economic development. Yet the traditional municipal operating model remains constrained by fragmented information flows, delayed reporting cycles, and institutional compartmentalization that slows adaptation to rapidly changing urban conditions. The rise of artificial intelligence, deployed within an increasingly digitized civic infrastructure, is redefining how cities perceive, interpret, and influence their own…

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Smart Cities, Technology, Innovation and Energy

Beyond the Smart City: Towards the Wise and Human-Centered City

By IDHUS Institute Dec 27, 2025

Over the last two decades, the concept of the smart city has been widely adopted as a shorthand for urban progress, frequently associated with connected infrastructure, pervasive sensors, data platforms, automation, and the promise of systems that can be optimized through computation. In practice, the smart city is not a single technology but an integrated socio-technical architecture in which digital networks, edge devices, cloud services, and analytics form a continuous feedback loop between the physical city and its digital representations. This loop enables real-time visibility…

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Smart Cities, Technology, Innovation and Energy

Computer Vision in Public Works: Supervision, Safety, and Efficiency

By IDHUS Institute Dec 23, 2025

Construction and public works constitute the physical backbone of cities. Roads, bridges, tunnels, water distribution systems, public housing, and energy infrastructure shape not only urban landscapes but also economic productivity, social cohesion, and quality of life. Despite their importance, public works projects remain among the most complex, expensive, and risk-prone activities in urban management. Delays, cost overruns, safety incidents, and quality issues are persistent challenges, often driven by fragmented information, limited real-time visibility, and reactive decision-making. Artificial intelligence, and particularly computer vision, is fundamentally transforming…

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Natural Resources, Ecosystems and Sustainability

Waste Management 4.0: How Artificial Intelligence Is Transforming Urban Waste Systems

By IDHUS Institute Dec 21, 2025

Modern cities are generating more waste than at any other point in history. Population growth, rising consumption, urban densification, and increasingly complex product lifecycles have turned waste management into one of the most pressing operational and environmental challenges facing cities today. According to the World Bank, urban areas worldwide produce more than two billion tons of solid waste annually, a figure projected to increase by up to 70 percent by 2050 if current trends continue. Left unmanaged, this growing volume of waste threatens public health,…

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Smart Cities, Technology, Innovation and Energy

From Smart to Sensitive: How Technology Is Redesigning Cities Around Wellbeing

By IDHUS Institute Dec 20, 2025

For decades, cities have judged their progress through what can be counted: GDP, commute times, building permits, energy demand, tourism figures, crime rates. These metrics matter, but they are also blunt instruments. They describe output, not experience. Two cities can have the same growth rate and mobility performance while feeling radically different to live in—one stressful and alienating, the other safe, welcoming, and meaningful. As urban challenges intensify—housing pressures, climate risks, aging infrastructure, social polarization—the next evolution of “smart city” thinking is shifting from automation…

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Cities of the World

Redefining China’s Urban Future: The 15th Five-Year Plan and the Transformation of Space, Growth, and Society

By IDHUS Institute Dec 19, 2025

China is embarking on one of the most far-reaching territorial and urban transformation efforts in its modern history, signaling a decisive shift in how the country conceives development, space, and social balance. The 15th Five-Year Plan, which will shape China’s economic and social trajectory in the coming years, places urban development, land-use governance, and regional integration at the core of the national modernization strategy. This agenda emerges at a critical juncture, defined by the transition toward a more innovation-driven economic model, the accumulated pressures of…

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