Smart cities eng subs

[0:00]The smart city is a vision of a city that uses digital tools to improve the quality of life of the citizens, streamlines the city's functions, and at the same time takes account of sustainability from a long-term perspective. In the smart city, data is the new fuel, the raw material for all digital innovations. However, to get there, we have to manage data in a completely different way than we do today. The Internet of Things is an important part of this vision, where everything is connected, and all data can be shared with everyone. But we are not there yet. Today there are many connected things in the cities: For example, sensors detecting free parking lots, cameras for remote surveillance in elderly care, garbage bins that alert when they are full. So how does it work? Well: a sensor measures and sends data that is collected in a secure way and then processed into some kind of service. The problem is that these solutions - even though they work the same way - are completely separate, locked-in systems that do not share infrastructure or data. What if, instead, we started sharing data storage and data management. Using common security mechanisms and with fewer integrations into the city's various operating systems. Then the city would need a common platform - pretty much the same way a smartphone works. Also, we would need to agree on standardized data models (the language a sensor speaks), and common APIs (rules for how we get access to data). With common standards, it will be easier to add new sensors, and data can be combined in new ways and refined into innovative services to create benefits that we can't even imagine today! Now, if all cities comply with the same standards, it will be possible to easily compare and share data, and move services between cities. Technically, this is not difficult. The challenge is organizational: how should cities change in order to properly apply and utilize data, the raw material for all digital innovations, to achieve the vision of the smart, sustainable city?