The document outlines Barcelona's evolution as a smart city through various historical milestones and the implementation of a comprehensive smart city strategy. Key initiatives focus on infrastructure, energy, social engagement, and urban transformation, emphasizing the use of technology and data for improved city management. The vision aims to create a self-sufficient, zero-emissions metropolis that enhances the quality of life for its residents while fostering international and industrial collaborations.

1. Barcelona
Smart Urban
Experience

2. Professional
experience

3. Barcelona
Smart Urban
Experience
The experience
of living
Barcelona

4. Roman (15-10
BC)
Medieval (1300-1600) Cerdà Urban Plan
(1859)
Universal Exhibition (1888) Industrial Revolution (1900) Universal Exhibition (1929)
Olympic Games (1992) Universal Fòrum of Cultures
(2004)
Smart City (2014)
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5. Smart City Strategy
International recognition

6. Vision generation
To become a self-sufficent city of
productive neighborhoods at human
speed, inside a hyper-connected zero
emissions metropolis

7. Barcelona
Smart City Strategy
Define two clear goals:
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8. Analysing the City
Anatomy

9. Urban Habitat
Agency
Innovative city
management
Creation of an Urban Habitat Agency

10. We need answers for their problems…
…transforming data into digital services

11. Key Case Studies
1. Infrastructures & Mobility
2. Environment & Energy
3. Social & Citizen Engagement
4. Urban Transformation & Public Spaces

12. Infrastructures &
mobility
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13. Smart Mobility

14. Public Transport Management
New bus network

15. Public Transport Management
Bus network monitoring

16. Public Transport Management
Smart Bus Shelters
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17. Traffic Management
Monitoring traffic quality of the basic mobility
network:

18. Traffic Management
Access to real-time traffic information through a website and an App

19. Traffic Management
Smart Traffic Lights:

20. Parking Management
ApparkB: parking
management

21. Environment &
Energy
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22. Zero-emissions Mobility
Electric buses

23. Zero-emissions Mobility
Bikes Sharing
Scheme

24. Zero-emissions Mobility
LIVE “Logistics for Electric Vehicle Implementation”

25. Sustainable Infrastructure Management
Smart water
Rieres d’Horta Rainwater and Wastewater Retention Tank

26. Sustainable Infrastructure Management
Smart Waste Management Facility

27. Smart Irrigation of Public Parks
Sustainable Infrastructure Projects

28. Sustainable Infrastructure Projects
Smart lighting

29. Sustainable Infrastructure Projects
Smart lighting
Objectives:

30. Social & Citizen
Engagement
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31. City Wi-Fi
Internet Access and City Apps

32. Barcelona in your pocket:
Internet Access and City Apps

33. BCN OPEN DATA PORTAL
The main goals of this open data project are to:
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Internet Access and City Apps

34. Apps4BCN:
Internet Access and City Apps
653APPS
353 BCN APPS

35. E-Social & Healthcare Projects
Healthcare Tele assistance

36. E-Social & Healthcare Projects
VinclesBCN:

37. E-Social & Healthcare Projects
VinclesBCN:
Users description
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What is achieved with Vincles BCN?
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38. Digital Fabrication Laboratories
Digital Fabrication Laboratories

39. Digital identification service:
A digital identification service development consisting in a secure technology platform
that is able to manage easily and securely a digital identity for any transaction made on
mobile devices with municipal services.
An activation and implication tool for citizens with City Hall digital services with a great
development potential. Guaranteeing safety transactions and protecting privacy.
Mobile device usage as an authentication and signature tool, easing access and
reducing waiting times in public service benefits.
A technology platform for identity management that is transforming physical identity
into digital one´s using smartphones.
Mobile ID Application

40. Urban
Transformation &
Public Spaces
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41. Towards the internet
of everything public
space

42. Designing Public Space with the Internet of
Things:
Designing Public Space with the Internet of Things

43. Designing Public Space with
the Internet of Things:
Systematically add Smart
components (energy efficiency,
connectivity, mobility, etc.) to
any transformation in the
Public Space:
·Smart lighting
·WiFi
·Multisensors:
Thermal imaging camera
Sound sensors
Environmental sensors
IoT
Data collection from urban internet connected things to
be analyzed and help decision-making and help city
management.

44. City Operating System
ICT is fundamental to realizing smarter processes in the city function.
Data, the information collected from the numerous components that
make up the city, must be transmitted by some means to a processing
station where it can be read, analyzed and understood.

45. Sentilo:
Designing Public Space with the Internet of Things

46. Big Data to Smart Urban Design

47. Big Data to Smart Urban Design

48. Big Data to Smart Urban Design

49. Big Data to Smart Urban Design

50. Big Data to Smart Urban Design
Old Town Smart Regeneration, “La Rambla”:

51. Big Data to Smart Urban Design
Old Town Smart Regeneration, “La Rambla”:
Use of Big Data for pedestrian density flow

56. Conclusions
1. Long term, holistic project
2. Social project  city of people
3. Technology as a necessary enabler
4. Stakeholder’s engagement
5. City alliances: international competition/
collaboration
6. Industry alliances: PPPs, standards, new
business models
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57. Is she eating?
Does she walk every day?
Can she afford electricity?
Is her home in a good condition?
How much is she spending for water?
Is the price of her house, affordable?
Does she see her family, friends, neighbours?
How is she feeling mentally, physically?
THE TRUE SMART CITY

58. THANK YOU!