It seems obvious for everyone that the Smart Cities, which have been buzzing for several years, have difficulty to emerge. Not that nothing is happening because there are remarkable initiatives, but the tidal wave announced has not yet arrived. This situation is not unrelated to […]
All Smart Cities claim to be the pioneer, the first. Taken at random from publications, there are many examples: – « La Métropole Nice Côte d’Azur, classée comme smart city pionnière » (Nice Côte d’Azur metropolis ranked as smart city pioneer) – « Lyon, pionnière de la smart […]
Most of the Smart Cities incorporate an environmental component in their program: reduction of pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, waste treatment, etc. Depending on the country, they face a skepticism or an inertia that is more or less important and relies on a proactive citizen base […]
The cities seem suddenly taken with a frenetic appetite for technology: they all knock at the door of the digital world: they become SMART, in other words, intelligent. What are the foundations of this movement? What is the real power of technologies? Is the real […]
Smart Cities are public initiatives. They are always initiated by mayors and their teams. Difficult to escape within these projects with the priority political objectives at the head of which is the employment. There is no project that does not refer to the expected impacts […]
The great electric manufacturers dream of it: they describe a luminous future world where everything will be more electric than today. Will the Smart Cities fit in with this trend? Does this vision make sense for the cities? Or is it only an incantation launched […]
It is not so long ago that each component of the energy system of a large city was designed and developed by the specialists who were in charge of it. This world was simple; this is perhaps the main reason for the difficulties encountered in […]
I recently spoke about the need for cities and local authorities to develop new types of partnerships. But are these partnerships sufficient to enable them to successfully achieve their transition to a Smart City? It seems that they are sufficient to successfully deploy a collection […]
In a recent post, I discussed the necessity for companies, that supply solutions, to group together to propose more value to Smart Cities than the single deployment of a simple collection of smart applications. To have the most global possible offer does not modify this […]
Second chapter of our saga on Smart Meters after the first episode dedicated to their usefulness: critics often argue about their costs, supposedly exorbitant . What is it really the situation? The total cost of deploying smart meters may impress and give credibility to the […]
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