Smart Economy

At Smarty Cities Council they envision a world where digital technology and intelligent design have been harnessed to create smart, sustainable cities with high-quality living and high-quality jobs. To tap into the transformative power of smart technologies, cities need a trusted, neutral advisor. The Smart Cities Council provides that help.They are a network of leading companies advised by top universities, laboratories and standards bodies.
They promote cities that embody our three core values, livability, workability and sustainability.

The Catapult centres are a network of world-leading centres designed to transform the UK’s capability for innovation in specific areas and help drive future economic growth. The Catapult network was established by Innovate UK.

Smart City Platform is a technological platform, open and integrated with any service delivered to the territory. Smart City Platform condenses in a single, integrated proposal the entire technological power of the Maggioli Group: smart lighting, Internet of Things, cloud computing, smart metering, smart video surveillance and security, interoperable backoffice software solutions, mobile APPs.

Sensoneo sensors are installed in approximately ten cities and towns in the Czech Republic. Sensoneo has monitored glass, plastic and paper waste in underground bins in Prague II for over a year. As part of a twelve month pilot project, 420 sensors will be installed into waste containers (e.g. glass, plastics and other types of recyclable waste). The real technology benefits will be subsequently evaluated and a decision will be made on whether to expand or modify the project.

The Road Zipper System is designed to create a positive traffic barrier between opposing lanes of traffic and between motorists and construction work areas.
The Barrier Transfer Machine (BTM) laterally transfers the barrier wall, one lane or more, at speeds of up to 10 mph (15 km/h).  This allows the contractor to quickly reconfigure the roadway to meet changing traffic demands and at the same time expedite construction.

The company collaborated with Koubei, a food and dining service operated by e-commerce powerhouse Alibaba, to launch its first unmanned restaurant, where customers can order and take meals on their own.
Without waiting in line, customers can order meals through self-service machines or by scanning a quick response code on a table with their smart phones, and take their meals from cupboards at the restaurant.
The restaurant has a 24-hour service, along with dish recommendations for customers based on big data provided by Koubei.

Oslo Airport City will complement, reinforce and create synergies between the value adding establishments that already exist in the area, and be the driving force and engine to build a new city directly connected to OSL – Norway’s largest and Scandinavia’s second largest airport.

All too often, smart city projects focus solely on technical solutions while failing to consider the input and impact on citizens. MK:Smart has turned this on its head and put citizens at the centre of smart city innovation, thus ensuring a bottom-up, community-driven input to the design of the project activities, complementing the top-down specification developed by the project team.

The Transport Systems Catapult was responsible for putting a self-driving vehicle on UK public streets for the first time. The demonstration of a UK developed autonomous driving system marked the conclusion of the LUTZ Pathfinder Project, which began developing autonomous technology in 2014.

The system works by sending data received from GPS satellites and mounted sensors on the vehicles to the center through GSM/GPRS; monitoring, controlling/auditing and management are made according to transiently updated map. By knowing all these data, the following problems can be solved:
Risk reduction of traffic accidents by controlling speed and route violations,
Prevention environment pollution,
Monitorization and management of waste logistics,