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• Process and interpret this information to monitor the city, to be able to identify synergies and
improve efficiency.
• Generate the economic and social value of data to serve municipal objectives and decision-
making, collaborating in the advancement of the economy and the digital space of data and
services.

4.2 SSC Taxonomy

The city is a dynamic system in permanent evolution, with multiple and complex interactions among
people (citizens, visitors) and the environment (physical world). A system of these characteristics can
be defined semantically 17,18 as a set of possible relationships between the physical structure of the
city (natural environment, infrastructures, territory) and society (citizens, institutions) through a set
of interactions that allows society to use the resources of the structure to develop citizen activities
(e.g., work, commerce, leisure, health, education), generate wealth and share information. Figure
8 describes a taxonomy of the conceptual model that relates to these three domains.

Figure 8: Conceptual model of the semantics of a Smart and Sustainable City

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