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Using Digital Spaces & ICT to enhance the city life Connected Smart Cities Helsinki, 18th November 2010
Barcelona SmartCity
Ubiquitous infrastructures Human capital
Rich in information
Barcelona Smart City model
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Smart services
What is a Smart City? A high-tech intensive and advanced city that connects people, information and city elements using new technologies aiming to:
▪ increase quality of life ▪ having more competitive and innovative business ▪ make management and maintenance easier and cheaper ▪ having a more sustainable and greener city
Urban Lab BCN
Use the city to perform field trials in the last phase of product development
Test of new products and services with urban impact in Barcelona as Smart City
More than 20 applications on process Apply at www.22barcelona.com
Benefits Foster innovation and competitiveness of companies Better products, solutions and municipal services Opportunity to refine products and services through testing in real life Easy access to market and boost the competitiveness To convert proposes of innovative ideas in pilot projects and for useful testing for technical
personal of City Council To learn and create new products or services to the Barcelona citizens
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Media TIC BCN
Public equipment allocated in
22@ district
Business incubator
ICT & Media Research Centre
Technology Transfer Centre
Showroom of new technologies
Training center (Cibernàrium)
LivingLab
Conference centre
SmartBuilding & energy
efficiency
And Bar & Restaurant
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ICT training centre
The place to: get started into new technologies keep abreast of the latest technological solutions learn how to use Internet tools to improve your
professional profile
Based on training pills (from 1 to 3 hours) repeat: do the same “course” several times flexible: easier to fit user needs tailor-made: do different “courses” in the order the
student chooses
Cibernàrium BCN
Equipments 121 Exclusive classrooms dedicated to Digital Literacy
1.050 Computers with Internet connection are accessible 179 WiFi antennas in public equipments (WiFi Ciutadà)
Activities 41.111 Courses and Digital Literacy activities hours 30.966 Basic Digital Literacy hours 10.145 Advanced Digital Literacy hours
Places 69.273 Courses and activities places 50.912 Places at Basic Digital Literacy courses 18.361 Places at Advanced Digital Literacy courses
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Google Transit in Barcelona BCN
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Google Transit: plan your journeys on public transport in the metropolitan area and consult them on your mobile phone
finds routes between two points, offering several various options, and provides information on operators, journey times, timetables and routes
Real time information on incidents, public works and traffic density
agreement between TMB and Google Maps to use public data
Will work with Bicing next year
iPhone apps BCN IRIS: fix my street on iPhone Web running since 2004, now
available as an iPhone app Users will send images of their queries
with their mobile phones*to be launched end of this year
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Traffic status Current traffic, expected traffic in
15min, travelling times Maps updated every 5 min Real time images from street
cameras *to be launched end of this year
Location based service based on Open Data
find the closest public bicycle stations consult availability and location station visualization in a map interactive browsing through all the city direct access to preferred stations iPhone and java phones
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iPhone apps BCN
TMB Virtual: locate all of the closest bus stops, metro stations, trams and trains based on augmented reality
iBus: find out a what time the next bus arrives.
Vull anar (I want to go to...): plan your route on public transport
locate the TMB customer service points
Updated information on changes to the transport service
iPhone & Android apps BCN
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Also available… Virtual Touristic Bus:
Information on the three Barcelona Bus Turístic service lines, with a description of each stop and all the points of interest along each of the routes.
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But that’s not all…we keep on researching! BCN
