{"id":1185,"date":"2016-07-26T16:00:12","date_gmt":"2016-07-26T16:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/reuniwatt.com\/en\/?p=1185"},"modified":"2025-03-05T12:23:40","modified_gmt":"2025-03-05T11:23:40","slug":"smart-cities-the-cities-of-tomorrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/reuniwatt.com\/en\/industry-news\/smart-cities-the-cities-of-tomorrow\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart City, the city of tomorrow"},"content":{"rendered":"

The world is moving towards a population more and more present in cities, with an increasing centralisation of business centres. This causes an increase in the number of inhabitants in these areas. Indeed, the United Nations announced that in 2030, two out of three people would live in cities<\/strong>. If nothing is done to adapt these urban areas, they will lead to inevitable economic and environmental crises. This challenge turns urbanisation into a global priority, leading to the development of “smart cities”.<\/strong><\/h3>\n

Modern city<\/h2>\n

Today, 2% of the Earth’s surface is occupied by cities<\/strong>, regrouping nearly 50% of the world\u2019s population. From an energy point of view, these areas consume 75% of the energy produced and are responsible for 80% of greenhouse gas emissions. Thus, cities are the main responsible for anthropogenic global warming.<\/p>\n

Our energy transition heavily depends on the choices made to improve the environmental performance of urban areas; the development of smart cities is one of them.<\/p>\n

Modern cities enable the implementation of communicating and sustainable infrastructures of water, electricity, gas, transportation, emergency and public services, as well as of intelligent building services which will improve the comfort of citizens, while respecting the environment.<\/p>\n

Smart City<\/h2>\n

A smart city<\/strong> consists in a city using information and communications technologies (ICT) in order to become more intelligent and more efficient in its use of resources. The evolution of this sector will help to save costs but also energy, which will effectively improve services, quality of life, and will have a po\"Smartsitive impact on the environment.<\/p>\n

The city of tomorrow<\/strong> seeks to reconcile the societal, cultural and environmental aspects of a city to meet the needs of institutions, businesses and citizens. Smart cities innovatively aggregate all a city\u2019s sectors of operation, through a synergy and an increased communication between its key elements:<\/p>\n

This results in:<\/p>\n