The city of the future: - Big Data and Smart Cities - Internet of Things in tomorrow's cities - Vertical Farming

1. The city of the
future.
IE Business School Application Assignment
Sofiane Fessi

2. The city of the future
Why today’s cities have to evolve:
• Growing population worldwide and in cities - more than
half of world’s population live in cities, 70% in 50 years.
• Increasing global economic competition
• Global warming and related issues
• Increase in respiratory diseases due to traffic pollution
• Social mobility: our cities don’t provide opportunity as
equally as much as we’d like them to

3. The city of the future
Identified solutions
• Smart Cities
• Internet of Things
• Vertical Farming

4. Smart Cities
A vision to enhance urban living:
• Use resources efficiently (power, water…)
• Provide efficient and sustainable transport
• Improve urban planning
• Design sustainable homes and buildings
• Offer environmentally sustainable living

5. Smart Cities
Fields of application
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6. Smart Cities
Implement infrastructure:
• Involves private companies, government, citizens,
local associations
• Use of sensors and analytics to measure activity
and improve traffic, use of resources, security etc.
• Leverage on

7. Smart Cities
Three dimensional action
• Infrastructure: provide the tools and systems to
enable change
• Big Data: measure and learn to design relevant policies and
action
• Behaviour Change: activate change by involving the citizens

8. Smart Cities
Infrastructure provides the tools and systems to
enable change:
• Sensor networks and smart buildings: sensor technology
used to increase transport and energy efficiency, comfort
and security.
• Intelligent transport systems: intelligent infrastructures
(transit management, traveller information…) and intelligent
vehicles (driver assistance, collision avoidance…)
• Reliance on citizens’ connected devices to facilitate
information sharing and feedback

9. Smart Cities
Big Data to measure and learn to design relevant policies
and action:
• Real time screening and surveillance to enable immediate
action if needed
• Long term analysis to improve urban planning, security,
transport, energy efficiency
• Open data: full disclosure of city generated data for public
use and analysis

10. Smart Cities
NYC 311 calls between Sept 8 and Sept 15 2010.

11. Smart Cities
Behaviour change activate change by involving the citizens:
• Education initiatives: awareness campaigns towards
citizens (through NGOs, local authorities…) and children
(schools, museums…)
• Increase citizens involvement in studies, surveys and policy
applications
• Sanctions (fines, community work…) to shift citizen
behaviour

12. Internet of Things
At the center of the city of tomorrow for:
• Sensors packed urban furniture: intelligent street
lightning, smart garbage cans, noise measurement.
• Mobile devices for the citizen to be informed and
interact with the city environment.
• Smart vehicles to reduce traffic congestion,
collision risks and more.

13. Vertical Farming
An answer to cities expansions:
• increased distance to crops
• reduced cultivable land
• pushing prices up
• lower food quality

14. Vertical Farming
An integral part of tomorrow’s cities
skylines and ecosystems
• More efficient farming methods
• Protection from harsh weather
• Reduced water usage and
wastage
• Reduced product spoilage