This document discusses Barcelona's efforts to become a smart city through the use of new technologies. It outlines Barcelona's smart city model and describes several projects and initiatives that aim to enhance quality of life and make the city more innovative, competitive, and sustainable. These include developing smart services, testing new products through an Urban Lab, providing digital literacy training at Cibernàrium, integrating public transportation information into Google Maps and developing iPhone apps to access city services and information. The goal is to improve municipal services, foster business innovation, and convert ideas into pilot projects that benefit citizens.

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Using Digital Spaces & ICT to enhance the city life
Connected Smart Cities
Helsinki, 18th November 2010
Barcelona SmartCity

2. 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

3. 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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4. 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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5. 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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6. 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

7. 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

8. 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

9.  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

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Thank you!
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Júlia López
jlopezve@bcn.cat