While cities regularly welcome new residents and at the same time see an increase in the number of shops and services, they must ensure a quality of life that meets the expectations of their citizens to remain attractive. At the same time, they must offer sustainable and responsible alternatives to reduce their environmental impact and optimize their resources. The intelligent city is the answer to these major challenges, and the intelligent city takes on its full meaning. Crossing the paths of innovation and new urban challenges means making possible a unified and connected citizen experience, where the city offers its inhabitants a fluid and efficient daily life, in an ethical and sustainable framework. Imagine a connected city where new technologies would serve the organization of the city and the daily life of its citizens. A city where technology makes all information accessible in real time. From transportation to urban services: the connected city centralizes all of its information and offers it to its citizens in an intelligent way. Organized events, transit line traffic, incidents... this information, aggregated in a single application, enables residents to decide on their actions with full knowledge of their environment. What's more, by geolocating users and making good use of data, the intelligent application of the connected city can offer personalized information to make life easier for citizens in the best possible way. New technologies therefore enable information to be disseminated widely to the entire public. They create a powerful link between the different actors of the city and the citizens. In this way, innovation does not in any way signal a loss of autonomy or freedom, nor does it sound the alarm about controlling our behavior. On the contrary, driven by the power of intelligent information, innovation makes the city shine and gives citizens all the keys to a chosen quality of life. By identifying needs and data, innovation provides an immense opportunity to anticipate, prevent and act on the obstacles that citizens encounter on a daily basis.
Technology facilitates sustainable approaches
From responsible actions to citizen initiatives: the connected city cannot be efficient if it does not combine responsible initiatives with innovation. It must encourage responsible behavior by facilitating procedures and informing existing services. It is through this one and only application that citizens can find all the services of their sustainable ecosystem: recycling centers, second-hand stores, but also bicycle paths or alternative transportation.
Just like the city's global information, the user of the connected city has access to environmental indicators, such as air quality, or to information that is useful in his or her daily life, such as nearby green spaces or local shops.
With information at the click of a button and aggregated on the same platform, the inhabitants of the smart city make reasoned choices, whether about their mode of transportation, their behavior or their consumption habits.
Ultimately, the application can become an extremely useful source of information when deciding to buy or rent an apartment or house.
Technology facilitates a circular ecosystem
From neighborhoods to shops: the growth of the smart city allows each urban area to develop based on its own needs, its assets and the specific characteristics of its community. This development enables local businesses to be approached through a global prism by bringing together the expectations and needs of different living spaces. To meet the needs of each citizen, the emergence of a "smart commerce" concept would thus fully complement the positive policies driven by the smart city.
The intelligent application of the connected city not only enables local businesses to centralize their information, but also to digitize their activities locally. It then assumes the role of bringing together merchants and residents, to the point of offering a genuine e-commerce site specific to the city. Citizens can thus order and book in stores or check availability in several stores, all on a single platform, that of the city.
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