The combination of artificial intelligence, augmented reality, IoT and blockchain offer opportunities to optimise many of a city's information systems to help us improve its infrastructure and services to its residents The implementation of new technologies to transform a city into a Smart City involves the integration of advanced systems to improve the quality of life of citizens and increase the efficiency of public services. In fact, one of the key aspects of a Smart City is the provision of timely and accurate information to citizens, contributing to greater transparency and participation in decision-making about what should be done…
In general, the problem with our smart cities is not a lack of data, at least not across the board, but the way in which we need to manage the sheer volume of data that IoT sensor networks, IT systems and smart city structures generate. In addition, most of the data we can collect from available sources in the city is often unstructured data, which, when not properly managed, can become overwhelming to analyze. According to some estimates, between 80% and 90% of the data generated and collected by the organizations and services that are part of a city are…
Blockchain technology is not only the basis of the bitcoin cryptocurrency. This system of verifications and secure transactions on the Internet is also set to revolutionize the management of smart cities, something that working groups such as the Blockchain4Cities initiative, a United Nations proposal to coordinate, integrate and control the different urban services in a transparent, efficient and private way, is trying to develop and publicize in order to take advantage of the potential present in this decentralized data storage technology. For those not yet familiar with this disruptive solution, blockchain is, in essence, a system of recording information that…
In the so-called "fourth power", the media, an enormous revolution is taking place due to the irruption, for several years now, of "individual" journalism, in which every human being with a cell phone can act as a correspondent of whatever is going on around him or her. If a few decades ago only accredited journalists and official media were the ones who could take as valid what was "happening in the world", this is no longer true, since every person with a blog, a YouTube channel or a Facebook account can start uploading to their network the news of their…
The impact that new technologies are beginning to have on our society is not a new topic of discussion, nor something that has been at all revealing to those of us who have been analyzing for some time how all the development of elements such as blockchain, 5G communications technologies and the incipient development of 6G by China, and the protocols developed to support the so-called cryptocurrencies and their impact on the global economy are going to force us all, as human beings and members of a society that is advancing at tremendously high speeds for what we have been…
