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Experiencing the Smart City Concept: the Challenge of Intelligent District
2016
La città del futuro diventa un complesso sistema a geometria variabile, dove l'ICT è il driver principale di tutte le connessioni - collante della smart city - strumento intelligente che abilita il dialogo tra sistemi diversi. L'uomo rimane l'attore principale di tutte le trasformazioni, perchè ridisegna le sue abitudini, corregge i suoi comportamenti e condivide idee e soluzioni che si vanno affinando continuamente. Le aree dove ci sono più grandi innovazioni sono il campo della mobilità, dell'energia e dell'ICT. La dimensione del distretto intelligente sembra l'unico modulo convincente per testare sistemi, tecnologie e processi. L'interfaccia più interessante da esaminare è la relazione t…
Centri storici e Smart Town: mobilità sostenibile e infrastrutture virtuali
2013
Conservation and Development implementation are an essential combination when working in marginal and usually non-coastal areas, which identify the Southern Italy land. Starting from the extreme marginalization and the neglect conditions, reinterpreting them as an opportunity to re-foundation, can be a smart strategy. Mobility, marginal infrastructure and the extreme weakness which interest lots of users who characterize the population (mostly the elderly and the children) might represent a high significance criticality. Two linked focuses, one about sustainable mobility and the other one about the virtual cities network and public utilities, more specifically about health care public utili…
Intangible smart city inside tangible historic city: smart heritage as regeneration of Euro-Mediterranean realities
2014
The proposed research examines how EU policy is facilitating the construction of smart cities that are confronted with a cultural heritage to be protected, as is already happening in some urban realities of the Euro-Mediterranean band. We will proceed by making comparisons between the strategies adopted, through the identification of the most common civic practices and of the virtual infrastructure used. This article will bring to light how the virtual city descends into the historic one, how these two realities complement each other and when the virtual city makes use of that historical and material one.
Un disegno smart per Palermo
2014
Negli ultimi anni, il concetto di smart city tenta di creare un’idea di città sostenibile e pensante. Quali sono le condizioni per uno sviluppo urbano sostenibile intelligente? I progetti smart per Palermo, legati alla mobilità, alla riqualificazione urbana e all’efficienza energetica mirano all’applicazione di nuove tecnologie per rendere la città digitale più interattiva, efficiente e smart, caratterizzando il disegno della città pubblica di Living Lab, Open Data, crowdsourcing e progetti sulla creazione di spazi gestiti in tempo reale attraverso ICTs. L’articolo metterà in luce i nuovi modelli e i servizi smart che la città di Palermo sta proponendo per migliorare la propria realtà urban…
Involving people in the building up of smart and sustainable cities: How to influence commuters’ behaviors through a mobile app game
2018
Abstract Usually, mobility policies assessed by local institutions tend to intervene on the side of the urban transport networks, by designing new and expensive infrastructures, whereas only a few attention is paid to the possible positive effects induced by proper mobility behaviors of people. On purpose, Smartphone technologies and platforms are rapidly becoming effective tools for involving citizens in environmental conscious mobility habits. By means of an empirical application to a group of university students, that daily commute for reaching their departments, the effectiveness of a mobile app game in pursuing commuters to modify their mobility behaviors is here checked. The game rewa…
PRACA ZDALNA JAKO ELEMENT KONCEPCJI INTELIGNETEGO MIASTA
2021
: Z powodu postępującej na świecie urbanizacji i stale ujawniających się wraz z nią kryzysów można zaobserwować ogromne zainteresowanie koncepcją smart city. W praktyce miejskiej ma ona charakter wielowymiarowy i dotyczy zarówno wykorzystywania nowoczesnych rozwiązań technologicznych, jak i ekorozwoju miast. Ponadto aktualna ogólnoświatowa sytuacja wywołana pandemią koronawirusa spowodowała, że nie tylko przedsiębiorstwa borykają się z problemami zachowania ciągłości zatrudnienia, przy jednoczesnym zachowaniu wszelkich rygorów sanitarnych w celu zapewnienia bezpiecznych miejsc pracy. Problem ten dotknął również administrację publiczną, która zobowiązana jest do nieprzerwanego funkcjonowania…
Shared Administration for Smart Cities
2016
Within the paradigm of Smart Cities, the role played by urban communities is becoming ever more crucial. This chapter, in particular, explores the paradigm of “Shared administration” as the most effective urban governance model that helps urban communities to operate as smart communities taking care and regenerating common urban spaces. According to this administrative culture, the “Regulation for collaboration between citizens and administration” and the “Pact” are measures to implement practical opportunities to empower citizens, to free their energies and to enhance their knowledge and competences in a renewed alliance with the public institutions.
Smart Plugs for smarter cities
Load control in modern power grids is becoming more and more important. Recently, energy monitoring and load control has gained interest from several actors such as energy utilities, and Demand Response mechanisms allow consumers to respond to signals from energy suppliers in order to reduce their energy consumption during critical periods, in exchange of discounts on electricity bills. Direct Load Control mechanisms allow energy suppliers, through the adoption of Smart Plugs, to automate load switch-o during such periods. These mechanisms have been traditionally applied to industrial customers only, leaving a major part of loads in the grid, e.g. household appliances, uncontrolled. Commerc…
Ex-Ante Business Model Evaluation Methods: A Proposal of Improvement and Applicability
2019
[EN] Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to choose the best method for ex ante business model evaluation, improve it and provide a framework to put it into practice. Design/Methodology/Approach: After an in-depth review, we chose the best method for ex ante business model evaluation, improved this method, and applied it to a real case study in which business models had been proposed for a Sustainable Smart District project. Findings: We analysed existing ex ante business model evaluation methods, justifying our choice of the best one. We improved this key question-based method by combining classic management tools and a new, promising procedure. We finally found a strong tool to improve b…