Within the urban transformation processes, working with the city's electricity and energy supply is one of the key points for the success of a Smart City. In fact, in many cities, solutions have been implemented for years to transform the grid into a smart grid, which is an energy supply system that uses communication and information technology to improve the efficiency, safety and resilience of the electrical system. In general, the main components of a smart grid include the same elements as a "conventional" grid, adding communications and technology elements to improve its efficiency and optimize resources, so that: On…
As urban centers continue to grow in population, many are becoming "smart cities" through a digital transformation aimed at improving the lives of their residents, more effective governance and more efficient resource consumption by instrumenting almost everything in a city. Streetlights, traffic lights and security cameras, electricity and gas meters or sewers in any metropolis can be sensorized to obtain data to feed this digital infrastructure. For years now, and no longer a novelty, citizens in a large part of the world have also been connecting to the infrastructure of their smart cities to obtain municipal services or pay bills.…
Taking advantage of advances in information and communication technologies (ICT), Smart Cities or smart cities have been offering many potential benefits to their residents for years, such as improved energy efficiency, personal management and security, mobility within their streets and avenues, etc. However, this reliance on ICT also makes Smart Cities prone to cyber-attacks, as are all systems that, in one way or another, are nowadays connected to the network. Rapid advances in ICT have been harnessed to streamline the design, operation and management of urban environments in a variety of ways. For example, it is possible to measure energy…
Every information and communication technology (ICT) professional knows, at least in a generic way, how and by what means their PC, smartphone or tablet gets and receives an Internet address to connect to the network thanks to computer protocols that are called IP, DHCP, NAT, etc. In general, the rest of the world, we simply turn on our electronic devices and go straight to surf the web of the newspaper we read every morning, or open the email to see what news brings our working day, without worrying or feeling the need to understand how they know "those of the…
Throughout the length and breadth of our geography, and at an increasing rate, many cities have been betting on and incorporating new technologies into their infrastructures for several years. In the last five years, the speed of adoption has increased, and many cities are becoming more and more "intelligent". Technologies related to data management, data storage and capture, along with faster connectivity, allow metropolises to optimize their resources, save money and, at the same time, offer better services to their citizens. In fact, most of us, when we wake up to start a normal work day, we usually take a…
