The document outlines Barcelona's vision and plans to become a smart city. It aims to improve citizens' quality of life through more efficient and sustainable urban mobility, environmental sustainability, and increasing business opportunities and social cohesion using technology. The city's smart city strategy focuses on developing 27 programs across 13 areas, including smart lighting, energy self-sufficiency, zero-emissions mobility, smart water systems, and using data and new technologies to improve government services and citizen engagement. The vision is for Barcelona to become an interconnected, sustainable, and resilient city that enhances life for its residents.

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BARCELONA SMART CITY
Barcelona, January 2014

2. Barcelona Smart City
Vision
The city of
people
Improve citizens’ welfare and
quality of life
Technology as an enabler for:
ü Urban mobility more efficient and sustainable
ü Environmental sustainability
ü Business-friendly and attracting capital
ü Integration and social cohesion
ü Communication and proximity with people
ü Knowledge, creativity and innovation
ü Transparency and democratic culture
ü Universal access to culture, education and health
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Economic progress

3. Barcelona Smart City
Vision
To become a city of productive neighbourhoods, at human speed, interconnected,
eco-efficient, re-naturalised, energetically self-sufficient and regenerated at zero
emissions, inside a high-speed interconnected Metropolitan Area.
“Many slow cities inside the same Smart City”
Barcelona is orienting its city evolution strategy towards to guarantee quality of life for its citizenry, social and urban improvement
and added value in its neighbourhoods, fostering all its urban potential towards sustainable development and green economy, in
favour of an energetically self-sufficient city and where nature holds a prominent role for the balance of the city. A connected city
with a high-speed interconnected Metropolitan Area, that guarantees the region evolution and the improvement of its inner
cities.
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Reference framework
City Strategic framework
The framework is determined by the Smart Barcelona surrounding municipal and European
citizens:
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5. Barcelona Smart City
Reference framework
Global Strategic framework
Mobility
E-Government
Smart Cities
Systems of Information
Innovation

6. Barcelona Smart City
Reference framework
City Council: and ad-hoc organization
Metropolitan
Area
Architecture
Housing
Environment
ICT
Urban Habitat
Area
Urban
Planning
Infrastructures
Energy
Water
Urban
Services
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Barcelona Smart City Programs
The 8 principles to make a self sufficient city
1. Define your own city model with “your city mantra”
2. Analyze the structure of your city and define your priorities
3. Rethink your city systems, not just upgrade them.
4. Develop the economy of city services with partners
5. Make your city more resilient and promote long term investment
6. Build a liveable city, increasing public space for people
7. Change your organization by breaking the silos
8. Work with other cities and be part of the city protocol society
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Barcelona Smart City Programs
Anatomy of a Smart City
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Barcelona Smart City Programs
Conceptual Model
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13 CITY CATEGORIES
ENVIRONMENT
BUILT DOMAIN
PUBLIC SPACE
SOCIAL IMPACT
O-GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION FLOWS
INTERNATIONAL
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Barcelona Smart City Programs
Smart Programs
1. New Municipal Network ¹
2. Urban Platform ¹
3. Intelligent Data ¹
4. Next Generation Networks (4G)
5. Smart Lighting
6. Energy self-sufficiency
7. Energy efficiency in buildings
8. Smart Water
9. Zero emissions mobility
10. Smart Parking
11. Smart Transportation
12. Urban transformation
13. Urban resilience
14. Smart Citizens
15. O-Government & eficiency
16. Cloud BCN
17. Barcelona in your pocket
18. Optimised Waste Collection
¹ Transversal programs
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27 PROGRAMS IN 13 CITY AREAS
Programs for Areas
7 Energy efficiency in buildings
17 Barcelona in your pocket
12 Urban Transformation
21 Smart Innovation
19 Intelligent Urban Furniture
13 Urban resilience
20 Smart Tender
22 Health
23 Education
14 Smart Citizens
24 Tourism
15 O-Government & efficiency
25 Industry and Logistics
1 New Municipal Network
2 Urban Platform
3 Intelligent Data
4 Next generation networks 4G
26 International Positioning
27 International Cooperation
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Key Points
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A new organisation oriented towards goals and objectives of a
Smart City
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Legal framework that allow PPP
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Urban zone for PPP to set and grow
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To feed the urban innovation ecosystem
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Living Lab, development of a community of citizens, developers
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Installations for SME experimentation
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Opening of new opportunities so that citizens can be more
active and participative
Strong international links
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Transformation of a running city
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5. THE BASEMENT: INTEGRATED NETWORK
FO
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WiFi
capacity
capillarity
prepared for sensing
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5. THE INSTRUMENT: URBAN PLATFORM
App … App
CITY OS
SENSOR
PLATFORM
Dedicated apps
iCITY
simpler
cheaper
open infrastructures
knowledge
interface with apps
management
get data
standard IP
sensors
different technologies
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6. INTELLIGENT DATA
Real time data
Reports
Situation room
What it is happening
at the city
Corporative tool
City indicators
How is the city
Citizen’s tool
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7. SMART SERVICES
Smart
lighting
Energy
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Self-sufficient
blocks
Individual remote management
of LED lighting poles
Micro eco-generation
Heating and cooling network
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Smart water
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Water
Cycle
Smart sewer network
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Smart irrigation
Telemanaged ornamental
fountains
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7. SMART SERVICES
Zero Emissions
Mobility
Smart parking
Mobility
Building
/ Street /
Neighbor
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Worktable with cross-sector and
government administration in
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Smart
transportation
Urban
transformation
Payment by mobile
Public parking in private sites
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Orthogonal bus network
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Smart bus shelters
Inclusion of requirements for
smart cities (telecommunication
infrastructures and sensing) in
streets remodeling tenders
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7. SMART SERVICES
Social
Impact /
Citizens
Citizenry
8 infrastructure and urban services tables
(TISU)
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United Nations resilience office in Barcelona
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Fab labs
Smart citizens
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Citizens as a sensors
Urban
Resilience
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oGovernment
Opendata
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Whabit
apps4BCN
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idBCN
Barcelona contactless
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mGovProcedures
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Barcelona in
your pocket
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ICT
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8. HOW TO GET IT
Smart tender
Include in all appropriate public tenders
clauses about smart cities
Private sector
collaboration
program
Partnership
with
innovation
centers and
other cities
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9. INDUSTRIAL PROMOTION
Smart city campus
Collaborative space between
industry and university
Cluster of smart cities
Big international companies
cooperating with local companies
Urban Labs
Testing smart city solutions in a
real environment
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