Lessons in urban monitoring taken from sustainable and livable cities to better address the Smart Cities initiative

Marsal-Llacuna, Maria-Lluïsa; Colomer, Joan; Meléndez-Frigola, Joaquim

doi:10.1016/j.techfore.2014.01.012

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“…The use of ICT technologies can be useful for many other tasks, such as monitoring environmental quality parameters like air quality (Ozone, PM 10 ) controlling the vehicular traffic and many other purposes. [15][16][17][18].…”

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Improvement of energy efficiency and quality of street lighting in South Italy as an action of Sustainable Energy Action Plans. The case study of Comiso (RG)

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Bonomolo

Ciulla

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Energy

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Existing street lighting systems in most of Sicilian cities are often inappropriate due to the obsolescence of light sources and luminaires and of unsuitable light control systems unable to provide efficient on-off and dimming strategies. Improvement of energy efficiency in street lighting systems can be one of the key actions adopted by Public Administration in developing Sustainable Energy Action Plan in the framework of the "Covenant of Majors" activities. As a task of FACTOR 20 project a set of planning options have been analysed and proposed for Sicilian cities. Particularly, street lighting efficiency projects have been studied for representative case studies. A detailed survey of the public lighting systems in the city of Comiso (RG) allowed to know and represents current and design performance figures such us installed power, luminance and illuminance levels in roads categories, electricity consumption, switching and dimming schedules. To do this many lighting simulations have been performed. Several scenarios have been proposed. The results obtained show that high improvements of the lighting quality are foreseeable together with large energy and economic saving. The proposed methodological approach can be applied in most of Sicilian and South Italy cities.

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confidence: 99%

Improvement of energy efficiency and quality of street lighting in South Italy as an action of Sustainable Energy Action Plans. The case study of Comiso (RG)

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Bonomolo

Ciulla

et al. 2015

Energy

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“…This view is highly critical, as the realization of sustainable cities cannot be achieved without all businesses and governments going sustainable along with the communities as a whole in all countries [91]. Furthermore, the rapid advancements in the domain of urban technologies are also seen as a significant contributor to the efforts in dealing with unsustainable outcomes produced from our cities [92]. This technology perspective eventually led to the development of a new city brand-so-called "smart cities" that symbolises a new kind of technology-led sustainable urban utopia [93,94].…”

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Planning, Development and Management of Sustainable Cities: A Commentary from the Guest Editors

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Kamruzzaman

2015

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Cities are the most dramatic manifestations of human activities on the surface of the earth. These human-dominated organisms-i.e., cities-degrade natural habitats, simplify species composition, disrupt hydrological systems, and modify energy flow and nutrient cycling. Today, these consequential impacts of human activities, originated from population increase, rapid urbanization, high private motor vehicle dependency, deregulated industrialization and mass livestock production, are increasing exponentially and causing great deal of environmental, social, and economic challenges both at global and local scales. In such a situation, establishment of sustainable cities, through sustainable urban development practices, is seen as a potential panacea to combat these challenges responsibly, effectively, and efficiently. This paper offers a critical review of the key literature on the issues relating to planning, development and management of sustainable cities, introduces the contributions from the Special Issue, and speculates on the prospective research directions to place necessary mechanisms to secure a sustainable urban future for all.

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“…Nowadays the measurement of real-time data is essential, because through them in addition to the available static and past data municipalities can receive information, which provide a more exact picture about the operation and liveability of the city and the efficiency of utilization of resources respectively (Marsal-Llacuna et al, 2015).…”

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“…Due to the fact that the cities appear at different places in the individual rankings depending on the methodology and databases the single cities appear at different places, a need to prepare a generally accepted, objective "smart city index" has come up. Currently the indexes are being standardized with the assistance of a board established by ISO (International Standards Organization) for this purpose (Marsal-Llacuna et al, 2015). However the standardization of the indicators is not simple, mainly the availability of data causes the difficulties.…”

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Citizens’ Perception of Urban Problems and Possibilites for Smart City Solutions. Case Study from Sopron, Hungary

Bertalan¹

2015

E-conom

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The question of urban sustainability has come to the front of research in the past decade. It is resulting from the fact that the proportion of urban population continuously increase, according to the estimations 70% of the population will be urban citizen by 2050. On the other hand cities play a significant role in sustainability, climate protection and the reduction of harmful emissions. Several innovative initiatives were performed on the area of the establishment of carbon-neutral cities of zero energy consumption and sustainable municipalities. The purpose of Smart City concepts is to maximize urban life quality and to increase energy efficiency, to reduce harmful emissions and to enhance the quality of urban services utilizing the possibilities provided by the available ICT-devices (Info Communication Technology). Nowadays the condition of the urban environment, the urban problems can be constantly measured and monitored by means of instruments and with the help of data analysis and process forecasts we can offer up-to-date solutions for them. Intelligent devices have come to the focus when researching city organizations.In Hungary it can be seen that some cities already apply smart solutions and these have ideas about future development directions, but most of the cities have the term only from hearsay. Because in the subsequent years significant sources from the European Union will be available for the development of urban services and the enhancement of energy efficiency, it is important that the management of cities informs itself and opens toward smart application as possible.Within the frame of a public survey in 2015 we have investigated the sensibility of the inhabitants of Sopron for urban problems and analysed, which urban processes are considered expressly harmful and which measures -even of smart character -would be kept important. In our article the results of the survey are presented. Keywords: smart city, urban problems, environmental issues, sustainability, liveability, Sopron Jel Codes: R000 Városi problémák lakossági érzékelése és smart városfejlesztés lehetőségei SopronbanA városi fenntarthatóság kérdése az utóbbi évtizedben a kutatások előterébe került. Köszönhető ez annak, hogy a városi népesség aránya folyamatosan nő, a becslések szerint 2050-re a népesség 70%-a városlakó lesz. Másrész a fenntarthatóság, a klímavédelem és a károsanyag-kibocsátás csökkentésében a városok meghatározó szerepet játszanak. Számos innovatív kezdeményezés történt a karbon-semleges, zéró energiafelhasználású városok kialakítása, illetve a fenntartható városüzemeltetés terén. A Smart City koncepciók célja a városi életminőség maximalizálása és az energiahatékonyság növelése, a károsanyag-kibocsátás csökkentése és mindeközben a városi szolgáltatások minőségének növelése a rendelkezésre álló IKT-eszközök nyújtotta lehetőségek kihasználásával. Napjainkban a műszerek segítségével folyamatosan mérhetjük, monitorozhatjuk a városi környezet állapotát, a városi problémákat, és az adatok elemzésével, folyamatok előreje...

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Lessons in urban monitoring taken from sustainable and livable cities to better address the Smart Cities initiative

Cited by 412 publications

References 20 publications

Improvement of energy efficiency and quality of street lighting in South Italy as an action of Sustainable Energy Action Plans. The case study of Comiso (RG)

Improvement of energy efficiency and quality of street lighting in South Italy as an action of Sustainable Energy Action Plans. The case study of Comiso (RG)

Planning, Development and Management of Sustainable Cities: A Commentary from the Guest Editors

Citizens’ Perception of Urban Problems and Possibilites for Smart City Solutions. Case Study from Sopron, Hungary

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