INTRO
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About "Smart by Design"
In our Smart by Design Newsletter 1 we have presented information about the target groups of the project as well as what outputs we are aiming to deliver. For more information on these, click here. There you will also find more about our partners and what they specialize in.
Disruptive Technologies for Smart Cities – Augmented Reality
Augmented Reality (AR) is the enhanced version of reality where live direct or indirect views of physical real-world environments are augmented with superimposed computer-generated images over a user's view of the real-world. In other words, AR is the integration of digital information with the user's environment in real time. It is common for people to confuse it with Virtual Reality (VR), but AR uses an already existing natural environment and superimposes on top of it. Users of AR experience a new and improved natural world with the interaction of virtual information which provides different interactive options. On the other hand, VR creates a totally new artificial environment. Read more |
Disruptive Technologies for Smart Cities – BlockchainBlockchain is a technology that stores transactions between two users belonging to the same network in a secure, reliable and permanent way. It is an incorruptible digital ledger of economic transactions that can be programmed to record virtually everything of value. Data related to exchanges is saved in cryptographic blocks which are interconnected with a hierarchical sequence, creating a chain of different data blocks, giving the name to the technology. It allows users to trace and verify all transactions made. It is impossible to manipulate or change retrospectively making these transactions safer and more secure than current systems. Read more
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Disruptive Technologies for Smart Cities – CybersecurityCybersecurity consists of tools, policies, guidelines, risk management, actions, training and technologies that users use to protect their virtual environments. They include concepts that establish network security. Nowadays, a great deal of information from users and enterprises such as personal data, banking information, passwords, purchases, bookings, etc., is transmitted online. All this information poses a risk to the security of both individuals and enterprises, hence cybersecurity management is vital to ensure the safety of all those movements that take place on the internet. Read more
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Disruptive Technologies for Smart Cities – Cyber-physical SystemsCyber-physical systems or CPS involve the merging of computing, storage and communication capabilities with capabilities of monitoring and control of physical elements. That is to say, endow physical objects with "intelligence" so that they can interconnect. As they are interconnected to each other they employ the global digital networks to monitor, control, and use the information that is available in the virtual world, and even learn, cooperate, and evolve. This sort of technologies have a wide range of uses and may be used in most sectors (manufacturing, power, health, smart cities, transport, etc.). Read more
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Disruptive Technologies for Smart Cities – Collaborative RoboticsCollaborative Robotics (Cobots) is referring to machines which are designed for a direct interaction with humans in their working spaces without any security fence. They are lighter, more flexible, easier to install and with an affordable price than traditional production machines. This is the reason why they are perfectly suitable for SMEs. These robots have a fast return of investment; do not require specialized technicians for the assembling and launching and they are reconfigurable which allows them to be incorporated in different points of the production line, optimizing productivity. Read more
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Smart by Design Case Studies
Project Partners
- KISMC - NGO that is focused on developing competences in innovation management, creativity and entrepreneurship;
- SULSIT - Bulgarian State university of library studies and information technology that offers undergraduate, masters and doctoral degree programmes, and supports innovation and technology transfer in Bulgaria;
- ARIES TRANSILVANIA – industrial cluster and BSO that contributes to designing; implementing the smart city strategy of Cluj in Romania, supports digital transformation and creates digital innovation hubs;
- GAIA - cluster BSO that unites companies from the knowledge and applied technologies industries and supports policy and deployment of ICT, Engineering and Electronics in Basque Country;
- UNIVERSITY OF DEUSTO - leading university in Spain specialized in educating and training in the innovation and entrepreneurship, design thinking and IoT Smart city solutions through its Business School and the Faculty of Engineering;
- UNITED ACADEMICS - Foundation in the Netherlands that promotes, supports and maintains open-access library and publishing that results in faster scientific communication, wider influences of scientific knowledge on the industry, government, and education.