Tomorrow's Cities: How Barcelona shushed noise-makers with sensorsIn the heart of the bustling city of Barcelona is a square that at first sight seems like an oasis of calm. It is part of a wider attempt to rethink smart cities and put control back firmly in the hands of citizens. "We wanted to end this top-down approach where cities go to companies and ask them to build infrastructure and then pretend that is a smart city," said Mr Diez. Giving people the tools to collect their own data can sometimes be a "perfunctory gesture to make smart city projects more palatable", she said. "Cities increasingly have so many sensors generating so much data, some of which people have access to and some of which they don't.

Source: VietNamNet News June 04, 2018 04:41 UTC