The vision of “Smart Cities” is the urban center of the future. They are made safe, secure, environmentally green, and efficient; because all structures - whether for power, water, transportation, etc. - are designed, constructed, and maintained making use of advanced and integrated materials, sensors, electronics, and networks which are interfaced with computerized systems comprised of databases, tracking, and decision-making algorithms.
The research and engineering challenges along the way to this vision encompass many technical fields, including physics, chemistry, biology, mathematics, computing science, systems, mechanics, electronics and civil engineering. At the simplest level it is the basic component and its associated “feedback” or self-monitoring mechanism(s); each must be identified or - if already existing - tailored for the appropriate application. At the next level it is the design of the system making use of these components. Associated with this, there would be the interface to the computerized “monitoring” capability for each given function. Next, it is the full structure or service supplied, and lastly, the integration of information across all related and seemingly unrelated aspects of an urban centre essential infrastructure.
A city that monitors and integrates conditions of all of its critical infrastructures - including roads, bridges, tunnels, rail/subways, airports, seaports, communications, water, power, even major buildings - can better optimize its resources, plan its preventive maintenance activities, and monitor security aspects while maximizing services to citizens. Emergency response management to both natural as well as man-made challenges to the system can be focused and rapid. With advanced monitoring systems and built-in smart sensors, data can be collected and evaluated in real time, enhancing city management’s decision-making. For example, resources can be committed prior to a water main break, salt spreading crews dispatched only when a specific bridge has icing conditions, and use of inspectors reduced by knowing condition of life of all structures.
In the long term Smart Cities vision, systems and structures will monitor their own conditions and carry out self-repair, as needed. The physical environment, air, water, and surrounding green spaces will be monitored in non-obtrusive ways for optimal quality; thus creating an enhanced living and working environment that is clean, efficient, and secure, and that offers these advantages within the framework of the most effective use of all resources.
Therefore, in the session Arianous Inc. experts will present some major aspects which lead a city to become smart. We focused on smart Economy and smart Governance and other aspect of them.
We point to eight key aspects that define a Smart City: smart governance, smart energy, smart building, smart mobility, smart infrastructure, smart technology, smart healthcare and smart citizens.
Arianous Information and communication technology for development (Arianous ICTD): www.arianous.com www.arianous.net
Speakers / panellists
Mr Hojatollah Modirian, Director Manager of Arianous ICTD Co. , Artificial intelligence (AI) specialist and international activist in the information society
Mr. Mohammad Sharafshahi , Vice minister for resources management development (ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN MINISTRY OF ECONOMIC AFFAIRS AND FINANCE), Smart Economy
Mr Nasrollah Jahangard , Vice Minister, Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (Islamic republic of Iran), smart governance
Mr Hamidreza Ahmadian chashmi , Deputy director of center for administrative evolution and renovation, (ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN MINISTRY OF ECONOMIC AFFAIRS AND FINANCE), Smart Economy
Dr Shahab Javanmardi, Director Manager of FANAP CO., smart city
Session's link to the Sustainable Development Process
Growing urbanization, sustainable development, digital challenge, users’ involvement, economic and cultural attractiveness and governance are all part of the main stakes cities have to tackle. To face this plural urban reality, it has become necessary to find adapted means to conceive cities and territorial development. A better consideration of the uses and the creation of real consultation methods have the priority.
Thus, the new processes to imagine have to respond to a main stake: to restructure urban places to live and to invent a creative, sustainable and citizen–centred city.
As a laboratory for urban innovation, Smart City invites people from the creative and digital economy, users, academics, local authorities, architects and urban planners, to create unreleased ways of approaching and transforming the city. It aims at developing processes of open innovation in real urban environments.