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The CIUDAD 2020 project aims to develop a new model for a sustainable and efficient city focusing on three basic pillars: energy, transport and environmental monitoring. For this, it uses the Internet of the Future as the basic facilitating element to stimulate synergies between the aforementioned pillars, as well as interaction with residents, making CIUDAD 2020 a benchmark model towards which every city should evolve to reach the standards of quality of life, efficiency and sustainability that all 21st century cities should provide.

The PRENDE Project aims to develop an innovative people-centred service offered through IT tools to provide information on and boost local interest in increasing the energy efficiency of urban districts. The PRENDE project deals with the issue of energy refurbishment in Spain, by developing and applying an integrating methodology which draws on insights from other disciplines to implement a new strategy for encouragement and communication which is wholly citizen-focused.

An urban innovation programme, the first project of its type in the United Kingdom and internationally, has searched for innovative solutions that address two important challenges that Sheffield faces: making the city centre more dynamic and increasing the autonomy of citizens in situations of dependence. Sheffield Smart Lab was launched in summer 2015, calling out to entrepreneurs and innovators across the world who had forward-thinking solutions to the challenges faced by Sheffield currently and in the decades to come.

The Smart City App Hack (SCAH) brings together a global network of smart cities facing similar challenges and a common vision: to turn citizens into solutions builders, empowering them to make apps and businesses that will make for a better city. Engaged communities have found inspiration in five main themes: urban mobility, energy & emissions, shopping & retail, culture & tourism, and the collaborative city. A global, diverse team of experts has helped participants to build their app over the course of 6 months: from idea to finished product.

The goal of this project is to make a platform for collecting new types of urban and social mobility records available to the researchers of the IMU community, to deepen their research and validate their hypotheses and models. Many communities seek to improve their understanding of urban mobility behaviours: scientific communities (sociologists, philosophers, geographers, economists, urban planners, logisticians and computer programmers), territorial communities, transportation organisation agencies, businesses, etc. However, these records comprise sensitive personal data.

mCity acts as a system of systems for monitoring, controlling and optimizing all smart city domains in a single dashboard with minimal training or support. Its best of breed approach utilizes existing systems and sensors without the need for expensive forklifts. Comprising modular building blocks that easily integrate to new sensors and systems from any vendor, mCity quickly adapts to the city's ever-changing reality.

SynchroniCity is funded under Europe’s Horizon 2020 programme and connects 34 partners, 8 European Cities and 11 countries over four continents. This project was created to help cities simplify the adoption of new services that tackle urban challenges using Internet of Things (IoT) and data technologies. SynchroniCity will create a harmonised market place for IoT enabled and urban data services.

At Future Cities Catapult, we are working on the Hyper Connected Data Rich City project to create the governance, financial and policy instruments required to deliver a programme of city scale commercial demonstrators in the UK. This would allow new innovative products and services to be tested at scale, based on transformative digital technologies like next generation telecoms technology. It will enable UK companies to prove the business cases for highly innovative new products and services.

The FORTE® GeoMeter®600 spatial data collection system is a 100% Hungarian innovation that has already been introduced at CeBit. Smart gathering of information is essential to operate smart cities. With the FORTE GeoMeter 600, all the public buildings, locations and dimensions of the settlement are recorded with 360 ° panoramic images. With a single automatic survey, the local government gets up-to-date data assets that are now indispensable for modern urban management and settlement development.

The FORTE®MAP 8.1 Geospatial System of Intermap Ltd. fully supports municipal administration and decision-making processes. In the city of Dunakeszi, a unique solution has been introduced:  with a unique survey, the full virtual print of the city can be accessed by administrators, any public space position can get a full panoramic view, in spatial panoramas, the spatial position of public objects can be determined by pointing out and displayed in the GIS, measurements can be made on the panorama images.