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Integrated management for smart sustainable cities
Executive summary

This Technical Report has been developed within the Focus Group on Smart Sustainable Cities (FG‐
SSC) and provides a technical proposal for integrated management, which can be followed by any
municipality interested in improving the management of its infrastructure, operations and citizen
interactions, and in addressing critical urban challenges – such as security, criminality, pollution,
traffic congestion, inadequate infrastructure, and response to natural hazards. Information and
communication technologies (ICTs) proved to be instrumental to support urbanization and allow
the transition towards smart sustainable cities. The rapid proliferation of ICT products and solutions
in cities has led to the lack of uniformity in tools, such as information representation methods,
software interface specifications, etc., posing additional challenges to urban management practices.
Integrated management for smart sustainable cities (IMSSC) seeks to alleviate challenges in the
smart sustainable cities management through the incorporation of sensor web, model web, service
interfaces, ICT products, Internet of things (IoT) as well as the cloud computing technologies in areas
of city operations and management. Integration of such technologies is adapted to continuously
resolve the problems in smart sustainable cities management by encoding, fusing and sharing the
information resources of the cities in a unified way.
Recognizing the impact that IMSSC can have on the city management, the International
Telecommunication Union (ITU) established the Focus Group on Smart Sustainable Cities (FG‐SSC)
with the vision that cities worldwide can be empowered to alleviate and overcome management
challenges effectively and become smarter and more sustainable.
By promoting the coordinated development and management of smart sustainable cities, IMSSC
allows cities to maximize socio‐economic institutions as well as keep the city operate in an orderly
way. However, in order to realize the orderly operation of all relevant sectors in the cities, a series
of technical specifications are essential. Thus this Technical Report aims at emphasizing the
management problems faced by cities and at providing IMSSC as a possible solution to mitigate such
challenges, with the goal of generating further dialogue and discussion.

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