1.
Living & People
Smart Cities: an opportunity for liveable cities
Rosa García
CEO Siemens Spain. Barcelona, November 29th, 2011

2.
The world is changing and need answers to these
burning questions
Population
Population growth
Increasing Demographic Change
-More than 50% of the world's life expectancy - 65+ generation will nearly double
population is living in cities, an by 2030 (from 7% to 12%)
will increase from 3.5 B to 4.7 - Need adequate infrastructures as
B until 2030 well as health- and elder care
CO2
C)
Difference from 1850–1899 (°
0.7 76 °C
+ 0,
emissions 0.5
0.0
-0.5
1850 1900 1950 2000
Major energy and climate
factor
Powerhouses
Rising
- 75% of energy consumed in
- 50% of world GDP is
temperatures cities
produced in cities with a
population over 750.000 GDP increase in - 80% of CO2 emissions are
developing countries produced in cities

3.
Cities need pioneering solutions to solve their
problems
How to get enough electric power? How
to reduce the energy consumption and
emissions?
How to manage the ever increasing
traffic? How to bring enough goods into
the city?
How to ensure security and safety
of people?
How can we provide personalized &
early detection healthcare for everyone?
How to finance all this?
From closed island solutions and single products to cross-linked intelligent
infrastructure solutions

4.
Solutions for better cities are already available
Energy Renewable energy
generation Smart grids Security
Efficiency
Affordable Smart Building
Water treatment Healthcare technology
Mobility

5.
London innovative solutions
City Tolling- 30% congestion reduction
Intermodal Traffic Management-20% traffic
Smart Grid Pilot- more than 8 million customers

6.
Barcelona´s sustainable urban mobility
Driverless technology Metro- Europe´s longest line project
Retrofit Hybrid Bus- 30% fuel reduction

7.
Singapore the water city expert
Waste Water Treatment Plant- 228,000 cubic meters of
pure drinking water per day by 2012

8.
Madrid integrated solutions
Madrid paperless hospitals
SATE- Baggage Handling System Barajas Airport
UNIPOST- automotive letter classification
Retrofit Hybrid Bus- 30% fuel reduction

9.
Thank you
www.siemens.com/sustainable-cities
@ciudadelfuturo