What are Smart Cities? | Larissa Suzuki | TEDxUCLWomen

Hello everyone, before I start my talk, I want to ask you, who has ever heard of

smart

cities

? Well, who among you understands

what

smart

cities

are not about? Well, no one, yeah, just the work done, that's good, can we use today's? Lucky day because I am going to talk to you about smart cities, so first understand smart cities, we have to go back to the basics, we have to understand that everything around us is based on connections, everything is connected if we go to a little high In the sky, in the universe, we have stars, they are all connected in networks and form galaxies, they are all made of connections.

If we go down to earth a little bit, we have rivers connected to oceans, oceans connected to other oceans. we have continents countries cities and towns everything is interconnected another type of connection is the internet the internet unites us in all parts of the world facilitating commerce making it easier for people to communicate and talk with other people on the other side of the world we are also connected as people we live in communities and we organize ourselves in communities in which we participate, we speak, we represent relationships with people that we share, things in common, a very interesting connection is the one that happens inside your brain, we have many neurons and then we have The synapse is connecting one with another transmitting knowledge and this type of connection is very similar to the connections we have in cities.

Cities are a very pleasant place for connections because information can flow in an immersive and easy way and that is mainly caused by globalization. Cities around the planet are interconnected and we can be at different points, so we are no longer limited by space and because cities are globalized, they provide easy access to food, education and healthcare. People find cities very attractive and because of this, almost two. Hundreds of thousands of people will move to cities every day in less than 40 years. 70% of the entire world population will live in cities, so this exponential growth of urbanization will make it difficult for cities to provide basic services to citizens because we have limited natural resources and to serve that population who will live in cities that In 40 years we will need three Earths to sustain ourselves, that is really difficult, it is not likely to happen, so we have to find smart ways to manage natural resources and Qi.

We understand how we can better support people so that we can have sustainable growth of our status, but we have another bad news: all the Lincoln seed connections in the inner cities, have been broken cities, are made up of many systems that they provide us with our services. so we have transportation, we have energy, we have water, we have all those systems and they depend on each other, for example, energy depends on water and transportation depends on energy, so we have connections between those systems, but those links have been broken and These urban services need to be connected so that we can provide better and more efficient services to citizens so that they understand the seriousness of the situation we are experiencing today.

I'll show you some data. I'll show you some evidence in this graph. we have the cost of citizen efficiency, so every year we waste almost 300 million in energy, especially in the built environment, so we produce energy, but because we do not understand the demand, we cannot understand how to best provide the energy supply and We are here almost at 100 billion euros is food waste and these big numbers here represent the amount of 500 billion euros every year in water that we waste to create the food that we are going to throw away and congestion also creates many costs for cities , every driver spends around four months after lives in traffic and traffic creates mission carbon emissions that will create air pollution and every year 7 million people die due to complications caused by air pollution and London is the worst capital in the world regarding air pollution, try to take a breather in Tottenham Court Road, you will feel like you smell

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I'm talking about, that's why we have all this cost and just so you understand the seriousness of the situation, how much money we are wasting, you see this little G down here. is Google's annual profit when we compare Google is a very successful company the amount of money they make compared to everything we are wasting come on we have to do something we have to change the situation how can we change this the digital physical integration of seating systems and people technology could help us better interconnect those systems to have people on board helping us improve the quality of life within our cities and that created the concept of creating smarter cities, so the idea is to use the knowledge to improve their Environments and knowledge are beautiful and will help us save the cities we have today, so the idea behind smart is that we have a sustainable city, so we take care of its natural resources and address climate change.

We have an efficient infrastructure. They are new. modern interconnected and we make cities that are liveable people want to be willing to come to cities to innovate and make us very intelligent and intelligent societies to realize this we have to take into account the elements of learners we have to consider that we have to consider systems To manage the operation of city infrastructure, we must consider the information that will link systems to people and everything else in cities and that will be unlocked by knowledge and to design smart cities, the knowledge we acquire and we apply again in the city systems. we help ourselves develop certain urban capabilities in smart cities that do not exist yet, are yet to be developed and, in my vision, smart cities are made up of seven urban capitals that are unlocked and evolved through knowledge through the application of knowledge, so that others, to understand what smart cities really are, we have to go back in time, in the early nineties, we are some communities in the US and Canada, began to create a virtual representation of cities that can be understood by the yellow pages that have yellow pages online. pages about the city, so the transportation is here, the tourist attraction is there and then we provide that data to the citizens, so at this stage we were able to develop the urban capacity, the first is the physical capacity of the cities and, by capacity, tradition has a capacity to do something and this capacity is able to move forward so that we can move forward and change and continue to update those capacities, so physical capacity is about infusing technology into cities to provide urban services, the Urban information and institutional capacity is about governments supporting those processes, those urban processes. there was online that gave the government a strange topic so at this time the knowledge was applied to tools to get computers and put them in City Hall and put things online only they looted the knowledge, people at that time had a limited knowledge about how the technology might work. in physical space, how that would connect people and a later movement appeared with the development of ubiquitous computing, ubiquitous and ubiquitous computing, basically, you can understand that as sensors everywhere, they detect the environment and obtain information, infusing that information back into the environment to provide personalized services. people, so obokata computing gave rise to ubiquitous series that were developed mainly in South Korea, the idea of ​​a donkey, citizens, you enter a building, the building recognizes, you open the door, you touch your coffee and, depending on the climatic conditions, you change the environment inside the building. to save energy and all that, but to develop ubiquitous cities we have to develop them from scratch and infusing those technologies into old environments like London is very difficult, we have it because we have overlapping outdated infrastructure and technologies, so at that time the leader was known .

To make these ubiquitous cities work for today's cities, we had to develop more capabilities, but because we healed in a big future, it is to compete in two cities, we developed the idea of ​​the urban Cape, the human capacity that is also to provide personalized services for people. After that we had a new city movement called smart cities. The idea of ​​smart cities is that we have tools but we don't know how to apply them in different contexts, so let's create a knowledge society, acquire knowledge and spread it. in cities and help people not only be smart, but create a community of smart people, so that by having technology, modern technology and smart people, we can create a smarter society and at the same time we can apply knowledge to the processes so that we have services in the city that We could get smart people who could solve the problems that we have today, so at this point we could better develop the social capital, the social capacity of cities, create societies together, create communities that work to try to create innovation, but remember I said we need. systems we need information we need people at this point we had people and e.n systems of the digital city of Iquitos and now people involved in the innovation process, so something is missing, the information that will unlock innovative services that will help us Clue: address climate change is missing and the problem of natural resources so that smart cities are the cities of the future that will create efficient services, so that by introducing smart sensors inside your home we can better understand how some energy can be produced. energy or what to consume because if it produces energy we are going to waste it, that is if people do not use it to be able to better satisfy supply with demand and you, because you will be aware of your energy consumption, you can change your Smart cars they will generate less emissions, so we are also going to improve the health of people living in cities, so there is a whole new demand for development opportunities in smart cities and sustainable development is always being addressed, so Everything we do today will help. us to create a better place so that we can leave, we can preserve the environment and inspired cities developed two additional capabilities which is the capacity of sustainability so that we preserve our environment and now so that we create economic development and the good thing about being smart Are they for people?

Technology is an enabler, but they are going to work for people and you might think you need to borrow this if you need to have money to create innovation. Do not think it. Air B&B we are the largest hotel provider on the planet we do not own a single room another the largest taxi provider on the planet we do not own a single car there are around 400 apps that provide apps for people to get around London better TfL no has none of them and yet those applications are helping people save time and that time translated into money is equivalent to 16 million pounds a year, so smart cities will be about having those capabilities that will connect people. people with data information and also with the systems within the city and then truly smart cities are the ones that can provide better places for people to live, where businesses can thrive, people are part of the economy, they can innovate and we have a sustainable economy, thank you very much.