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12 factors that contributed to Smart City hardships.
In Bas Boorsma’s book, “A New Digital Deal. Beyond Smart Cities. How to Leverage Digitalization for the Benefit of our Communities” he has dedicated a chapter to lessons learned.

Sensative take: The failure often has an underlying reason; vertical solutions with locked-in data. This limits the usability of the harvested data, limits interoperability between organizations, prevents scalability, and limits access to legacy data and systems.

Lack of vision and architectural understanding is the real problem. The solution is horizontal open IoT, as provided by the Sensative Yggio platform.

Cities have learned that residents offer an important real-world reality check on tech-centric and data-driven work.

Lessons learned: It’s not about technology, apps, and flashy buzzwords. It’s about technology that works in real life solving real problems.

From tech trends to behavioural shifts and new ways to make smart cities economically sustainable, Matthew James Bailey explores what the next five years could look like.

The next 5 years is very much about maturity;

• Trials and POCs will become mainstream capabilities.
• Massive IoT roll-outs enabled by LPWANs like NB-IoT and LoRaWan.
• Cities will turn into ecosystems of the city, municipalities, regions, buildings, public spaces, utilities, companies, citizens. Multiple data owners and legal entities collaborating in a secure and controlled way for mutual benefits.
• and more, highlighted in this article…

An abandoned mine shaft beneath the town of Mansfield, England is an unlikely place to shape the future of cities. But here, researchers from the nearby University of Nottingham are planning to launch a “deep farm” that could produce ten times as much food as farms above ground. Deep farms are an example of what the latest wave of smart cities look like: putting people first by focusing on solving urban problems and improving existing infrastructure, rather than opening shiny new buildings.

Smart City projects are becoming less flashy show-offs and are turning to solve real issues. By using the right technology in close cooperation with the city operation and the citizens, real progress is being made.

Think Big, Start Small, Scale Fast.

A Smart City is a city where life has become very easy.

Check out this cool animation about Smart Cities, a vision that we share and work with here at Sensative.

The video is from REMOURBAN, an EU-funded project aimed at producing sustainable urban regeneration models for towns and cities to follow in their efforts to become more ecological and citizen-friendly.