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intelligent machines, and processes) to establish relationships among them (bidirectional human-
human, human-machine, and machine-machine communications) and with the setting (non-ICT
physical infrastructure and natural environment).

Figure 10: ICT Architecture of a Smart City (own elaboration)

Vertical / sectorial applications (internal & external) Citizen Relationship & Open Data

Solid
Waste Mobility Lighting Air Quality Sanitation

Configuration
Management
Monitoring Common
Audit Services
Security support
OA&M
Data /
Interface Interoperability Functions
knowleddge External Partners, Other Stakeholders & Legacy Systems

Data Acquisition /
interconection

City IT Architecture (Common Systems)

ICT architecture

Human Type
Users Communications
& Machine Type
Devices Communications

City Physical
infrastructure
(No IoT )

City Natural
Environment

Natural environment. This layer contains the abstraction of the environmental objects that
characterize the city and are relevant to the deployment of physical infrastructures. Orography
and climatology are examples of this layer.

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