6 smart cities, where the future is now
Trends Technologies / / December 19, 2019
1. New York
In New York, pay a lot of attention to safety. The whole city is equipped with security cameras and microphones at the sound of shots that send a signal to the police. Also, there is a single open database system that can use conventional developers. For example, a startup HunchLab based on it created a tool for the prevention of crimes. The system determines which area and at what time can be dangerous.
In 2014, in New York, it was launched a massive Wi-Fi. Routers have become special LinkNYC terminals. With their help, you can get online, as well as recharge your smartphone or see the map on the integrated display.
City saves electricity: automated systems study of busy streets and on the basis of the data obtained to control the lighting. A similar system Midtown In Motion uses traffic information to adjust the traffic lights, unloading the road during rush hour.
Urns in New York, too technological. They are called BigBelly and equipped with sensors that send a signal to utilities about filling the tank.
City improve not only by technology, but also through social programs. For example, one of them - Home-stat - aimed at homeless employment. Every resident, saw the stroller, can cause social worker. They will try to find a needy person a job, and later housing.
2. London
One of the main problems of London - automobile congestion. City decides it through investment in public transport, additional taxes on driving in everyday life and technology. The latter include smart parking, which informs the driver in the application of the available spaces, and a program-navigator, which advises the most convenient type of transport depending on traffic.
Technology meet guests at the airport in London: from Heathrow from one of the terminals to the parking lot walk automated trailers Heathrow Pods.
Also in London, running a single open data warehouse - any information about the city available as ordinary citizens and developers, who can use it to create software products. The exact number of such applications is unknown, but in 2017 there were more thanLondon - The Dawn Of Tech-rich Life Is Here for 450. Purpose may be different from the recording of all children in kindergarten to participate in the political life of the city.
3. Copenhagen
Transport infrastructure capital of Denmark is primarily intended for cyclists. It employs a so-called green wave: The system adjusts the traffic lights so that the users of bicycle paths to get to work in the morning and returned in the evening with no expectations. For the convenience of cyclists along the road has a sloping urns, as well as lights, warning about traffic light phases - so people know in advance, they should slow down or speed up.
Copenhagen karshering-service DriveNow offers for rent BMW i3 electric cars, with the application will tell if this time to the destination accessible by public transport faster.
In town you can find chutes with pneumatic waste system: all thrown in the trash are absorbed into the remote repository through the pipes. This allows you to get rid of the garbage trucks on the road and keep the yards clean.
Environmentally friendly in Copenhagen can be called even incinerator Amager Bakke. It produces energy for adjacent power and produces condensate water from the waste during combustion. A coated building roof neveplasta serves as a year-round ski slope.
By 2025, the Copenhagen authorities are planning to move to carbon-neutral economy, and completely abandon fossil fuels. To achieve this goal will help solar panels and wind turbines, as well as the further spread of bicycles and electric vehicles.
4. Reykjavik
While the majority of smart cities only seeks to obtain electricity from renewable sources, Reykjavik had almost reached this goal: more than 70% of the energy produced hereReykjavík Smart City geothermal process (heat of the Earth's interior).
For driving in the city of Reykjavik residents using the service Strætó. In it can be not only the best route, but also to buy tickets on the bus, and monitor the movement of public transport in real time.
In addition, popular in Reykjavik Better - service, which can be offered to urban initiatives. During the 10 years of its existence it has been jointly developed more than 200 projects, which spent around 1.9 million euros from the municipal budget.
Firefighters and ambulance in Reykjavik, go to the call without waiting for the green light traffic and without disturbing other road users. The secret is in the capital of Iceland used satellite system Sitraffic Stream prioritization. Each car has emergency sensor. When firefighters put out the fire going, and doctors - to save the patient, satellites track the status of their machines up to 5 meters and advance traffic lights switch to green.
5. Singapore
Singapore - one of the world leaders on population density. Therefore, there take care about setup of cameras and sensors. They allow you to monitor the cleanliness of city streets, and carefully analyze the flow of people and cars on the road.
Singapore was one of the first cities that had launched unmanned vehicles and buses. By 2020, every car want to provide navigation systems and sensors - a virtual card can monitor the movement of all vehicles in the city.
All residents have access to local services on a special ID - a digital passport under the name SingPass.
Technology has penetrated in the health sector. Here, for example, the system works remotely care. Doctors conducting video calls with patients: manage their condition, prescribe medications and recommend exercises, followed by the implementation of regulations by cameras and sensors.
Apartments are equipped with sensors old people. The devices send out a notice to doctors and relatives, if the elderly are falling or not moving for a long time.
6. Seoul
Seoul authorities are adopting technology in the urban environment not thoughtlessly, but after a thorough investigation of the behavior of residents. So the city launched the night buses. First studied calls to the taxi service, and then - the routes that went to people. The obtained data have helped to create a map with the areas where the nightlife is particularly transport demand. As a result, city authorities managed to cope with the problem by running a total of 50 buses.
Also, the city tested electric OLEV. They are charged not by the wires and the electrical network located under the road. As smartphone wireless chargingOnly very large.
Seultsy actively participate in the life of the city. All information databases are publicly available. Any developers can use the data to create their own services and applications, and every citizen has a voice in the discussion of local reforms.
Smartphones and other smart devices almost everyone seultsa: municipal authorities present their version of trade-in program. Poor people can take old electronics and buy new equipment at a discount.
However, not all experiments Korean visionaries met with similar success. For example, built 30 kilometers from the Seoul city Songdo be the most technologically ghost town.
There had to work a pneumatic waste disposal system, no waste water, and other cutting-edge eco-friendly technology. The city built a 312-meter skyscraper Northeast Asia Trade Tower and pitched a huge green area in the image of Central Park in New York. But the city of the future has not coped with the principal - not attracted people to him.
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