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Aquaponics
A sustainable production system to integrate aquaculture with hydroponic vegetable crops.
Electronic administration
The use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) to enhance the activities of public sector organizations. Some definitions restrict e-government to Internet-enabled applications only, or only to interactions between government and external groups. (e-Government for Development)
Ambient assisted living
The goal of AAL is to facilitate the goal of “aging well at home” through the use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). The main problems facing the AAL field today are the diversity of proprietary and incompatible solutions that impede interoperability and the development of a competitive market.
Predictive analytics
Predictive analytics includes a range of statistical techniques such as predictive modeling, machine learning, and data mining that analyze existing data to make predictions about future events.
APIs
It is a set of definitions, protocols and tools for building application software.
Apps
They are computer programs designed to perform a group of integrated activities for the benefit of the user.
Architecture
A unique way of combining urban agriculture, innovative technical solutions and architecture to meet the demand for efficient food production in cities.
Reference architecture
A reference architecture in the field of software architecture provides a valid template solution for a particular domain that can be used again and again.
B
Bicycle barometer
A device that uses sensors that are calibrated to be activated by bicycles, not cars or pedestrians, to count the number of bicycles in circulation per day, month or year.
Bicycle, electric assist
Where the pedal-assist electric drive system is limited to a decent but not excessive top speed, and where its motor has relatively low power.
shared bikes
Innovative ride-hailing programs that are ideal for short-distance trips give users the ability to pick up a bike at one self-service station and return it at a different self-service station within the system's service area.
Big data
High volume, high velocity and/or high variety of information assets that require new forms of processing to enable better decision making, information discovery and process optimization
Biofuel
A fuel derived from living matter.
Biodiversity
The variety of life in the world or in a particular habitat or ecosystem.
Biomimetics
Design and production of materials, structures and systems that are modeled after biological entities and processes.
Bioswales
Man-made filtration systems that use soil, gravel, and plants to capture and process stormwater before returning it to groundwater.
bollard
A short pole used to divert traffic from an area or road.
Digital divide
The gap between those who have immediate access to computers and the Internet and those who do not.
C
Bicycle signal head
A bicycle-only traffic control device used on an existing conventional traffic signal to improve safety, guidance and operational issues at intersections where bicycles may have different needs than motorized traffic.
Bike boxes
A designated area at the beginning of a traffic lane at a signalized intersection that provides bicyclists with a visible and safe way to pass traffic during a red signal.
Quality of life (Livability)
Habitability (or quality of life) is the general well-being of individuals, communities and societies.
Calming the traffic
The deliberate slowing down of traffic in residential areas by constructing speed bumps or other obstructions
Climate Change
A change in global or regional weather patterns, particularly an apparent change from the mid- to late-20th century onward and largely attributed to rising levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide caused by the burning of fossil fuels.
Change, from top to bottom
Change through policy formulation and regulation
Loading capacity
The highest threshold for the number of humans the earth can sustain.
Electric vehicle charging
Smart city hubs allow electricity from a street light to be harnessed to power electric vehicle chargers.
Cushioned bicycle lane
Convention bicycle lane along with a designated buffer space separating the bicycle lane from the adjacent motor vehicle lane and/or parking lane.
Contraflow bicycle lanes
Bicycle lanes designed to allow bicyclists to travel in the opposite direction of motor traffic on a one-way street.
Change, bottom-up
Change through social practices and individual choices
Chicane
A chicane is a series of alternating mid-block curb extensions or islands that narrow the road and require vehicles to follow a curated S-shaped path, which discourages speeding (calms traffic). Chicanes also create new areas for landscaping and public space on the road.
Acute shocks
Sudden and acute events that threaten the city.
Bikeway
A bicycle-only facility that combines the experience of an off-street bike path with the on-street infrastructure of a conventional bike lane. A bike path is physically separated from motorized traffic and distinct from the sidewalk.
Elevated cycle path
Bicycle lanes that are vertically separated from motor vehicle traffic.
Biophilic city
A city that contains abundant nature; that cares, seeks to protect, restore and grow this nature, and strives to foster deep connections and daily contact with the natural world.
Compact city
An urban planning and urban design concept that promotes relatively high residential density with mixed land uses.
Isolated cities
Isolated cities have little integration between different city responsibilities, between departments, between communication networks and with other regional governments.
Smart City
A smart city uses information and communications technology (ICT) to improve livability, viability and sustainability.
Carbon neutral city
There is no net emission of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, especially through emissions offsetting, such as planting trees.
Community Farm Alliance
A community organizing strategy to connect local farmers with the community by creating a direct local market. Typically, a community member can prepay for a regular supply of fresh produce from a local farmer.
Modular bike compartment
A bike storage facility, usually solar powered, quick and cheap to install, has the ability to alter and move stations, and usually requires no trenching, digging or other preparatory work.
Green Computing
Green computing includes the design, manufacture, use and disposal of computers, servers and associated subsystems such as monitors, printers, storage devices, and networking and communications systems, in an efficient and effective manner with minimal or no impact on the environment (San Murugesan)
Cloud Computing
Cloud computing is an information technology (IT) model for enabling ubiquitous access to shared pools of data and computing resources, typically via the Internet.
Real-time computing
Real-time computing describes hardware and software systems that can respond very quickly to external events that occur continuously.
Near Field Communication (NFC)
It is a set of communication protocols that allow two electronic devices, one of which is usually a portable device such as a smartphone, to communicate by bringing them within 4 centimeters of each other.
Connectivity
It is the ability of people and devices to connect to communications networks or the Internet and access services such as email and the World Wide Web.
Traffic control
Data collected by optical sensors, radars, or infrared distance sensors can be used to count cars and estimate traffic flow on roads.
wildlife corridors
Routes designed to facilitate migration and free movement of wildlife in and around urban areas, i.e. green belts, land bridges. A method of compensation for habitat fragmentation .
Carbon credits
A permit that allows a country or organization to produce a certain amount of carbon emissions and can be traded if the full allocation is not used.
Crowdsourcing
The practice of obtaining information or input into a task or project by engaging the services of a large number of people, whether paid or unpaid, usually via the Internet.
Mid-block crossing
A location between intersections where marked crosswalks have been provided. Crosswalks may be marked or unmarked. They provide a convenient location for pedestrians to cross in areas without frequent intersection crossings.
Wildlife crossing
The proper term for a land bridge or underpass used by animals.
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data set
A dataset is a collection of data.
Open data
A designated area at the beginning of a traffic lane at a signalized intersection that provides bicyclists with a visible and safe way to pass traffic during a red signal.
Structured data
Structured data follows an abstract model that organizes data elements and standardizes how they relate to each other and to the properties of associated real-world entities.
Unstructured data
Unstructured data is information that does not have a predefined data model.
Bicycle detection and action
Sensors on regular traffic signs to alert the controller of bicycle crossing demand on a particular approach.
Disaster, waterfall
Natural disaster that leads to other disasters in a domino effect.
Disaster, complex / compound
Multiple interrelated disasters, such as earthquakes, fires and floods.
Disaster, na-tech (natural technological disaster)
Natural disaster that creates a technological disaster such as power outages or nuclear incidents.
Disaster, synergistic
A disaster that is increased in severity by subsequent disasters. For example, an ice storm that creates impacts on transportation and energy supplies.
biophilic design
An innovative design method that incorporates elements of nature into modern design to help restore and preserve our innate need to affiliate with nature.
Connected devices
A connected device (or smart device) is an electronic device, usually connected to other devices or networks, that can operate to some extent interactively and autonomously.
Demographic dividend
When countries' age structures change favourably, meaning they have more people of working age than dependents, they can see a boost to development, provided they empower, educate and employ their young people.
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Ecoaldea
A community whose inhabitants seek to live according to ecological principles, causing the least possible impact on the environment.
Eco-city
It is a human settlement modeled on the self-sustaining elastic structure and function of natural ecosystems. An eco-city seeks to provide healthy abundance to its inhabitants without consuming more renewable resources than it replaces.
Eco-innovator
The development of products and processes that contribute to sustainable development, applying the commercial application of knowledge to obtain direct or indirect ecological improvements.
Ecotourism
Responsible travel to natural areas that conserves the environment, supports the well-being of local people, and involves interpretation and education.
Edge Computing
A distributed computing architecture in which data processing occurs on a network of devices or nodes known as edge or smart devices rather than in a centralized location such as a cloud or server.
Alternative energy
Energy generated in a way that does not deplete natural resources or harm the environment, especially by avoiding the use of fossil fuels and nuclear energy.
Energy Efficiency
The increase in electricity consumption has led to energy saving systems that optimize energy expenditure and monitor the use of appliances or systems that use the electrical grid. Statistical techniques, neural networks or fuzzy systems are used to process the collected data and make decisions.
Energy neutral
The total amount of energy used annually is approximately equal to the amount of renewable energy created on site.
Non-renewable energy
Energy from a source that cannot be replaced, such as coal, oil, and natural gas.
Renewable / sustainable energy
Energy from a source that is not depleted when used, such as wind or solar energy.
Solar energy
The energy that the Earth received from the sun, mainly as visible light and other forms of electromagnetic radiation.
Smart Parking
Smart parking is a vehicle parking system that helps drivers find a vacant spot using sensors and communication networks.
Open standards
They are publicly available standards developed through an extensive consultation process that govern the application of a particular domain or activity.
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Dynamic pricing
Dynamic pricing, also called demand-driven pricing, is a pricing strategy in which flexible prices for products or services are based on current market demands.
G
Electronic Government (E-Government)
Electronic government (E-Government )
Also known as e-gov, Internet government, digital government, online government or connected government) are digital interactions between a government and citizens (G2C), government and business/commerce (G2B), government and employees (G2E), and also between government and governments/agencies (G2G). Essentially, e-government delivery models can be briefly summarized as (Jeong, 2007).
H
Carbon footprint
The amount of carbon dioxide and other carbon compounds emitted due to the consumption of fossil fuels by a person, group, etc.
I
Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)
Tracking tags that are attached to objects to collect data using electromagnetic fields.
carbon tax
A tax on fossil fuels, especially those used by motor vehicles, aimed at reducing carbon dioxide emissions.
Infrastructure
Infrastructure refers to the fundamental facilities and systems that serve a city, country, or other area, including the services and facilities needed to run its economy.
Smart Infrastructure
Smart infrastructure refers to the integration of smart technologies into the critical facilities and systems that serve a city, country, or other area, including the services and facilities needed to run its economy.
Instrumentation
It is a collective term for measuring instruments used to indicate, measure and record physical quantities.
Artificial Intelligence
Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence exhibited by machines, rather than humans or other animals.
Internet of Things (IOT)
The Internet of Things (IoT) is at the heart of the evolution of Smart Cities. Common urban challenges such as traffic, energy and waste reduction are targets for connected technologies.
Interoperability
It is a characteristic of a product or system whose interfaces can work seamlessly with a defined set of other products or systems.
Interruptores
Switches are electrical components that can "make" or "break" an electrical circuit, interrupting the current or diverting it from one conductor to another.
L
LoRa (Long range)
LoRa is a long-range, low-power wireless platform that is the predominant technology choice for building Internet of Things (IoT) networks around the world.
Low-Power Wide-Area Network (LPWAN)
It is a type of wide area wireless telecommunications network designed to enable long-range, low bit rate communications between connected objects.
M
Machine to Machine (M2M)
Machine to Machine (M2M)
Communications between devices, wired or wireless.
Smart meter
A smart meter is an electronic device that records electricity usage at intervals of one hour or less and communicates that information to the utility company for monitoring and billing.
Ecological model
A network of relationships and interactions and theory that understands the interrelationships of those relationships (e.g. families)
Monitoring
Periodic verification of processes, equipment and environment to detect any changes
active mobility
Any form of human-powered transportation, such as walking, cycling, skating, and skiing.
Multi-modal
Multimodal transportation systems include a wide range of transportation options including walking, biking, bus, light rail, train, ferry, and shared mobility services.
O
Board
Optimization is the process of achieving the best possible outcome relative to a defined set of success metrics.
P
Consumer Relations Platform
A computing platform is the environment within which a piece of software runs.
Platform as a service (PaaS)
It is a category of cloud computing services that provides a platform that enables customers to develop, run, and manage applications.
Digital urban data platform
An urban digital data platform provides a common environment for data aggregation across multiple city departments and areas of responsibility.
Privacy policy
Privacy in a smart city context is the ability of an individual or group to control the types, amounts, and recipients of data about themselves.
Last mileage problem
One problem facing transit agencies is how to get commuters onto public transportation without the use of individually owned cars.
Door
A wireless gateway serves as a “switchboard” for a group of IoT devices. Before communicating with the final source, data must pass through a gateway.
R
Situational recognition
Situational awareness is the perception of environmental elements and events, understanding their meaning, and understanding their state after some variable has changed.
RF Mesh Network
An RF mesh network is a wireless communications network composed of radio frequency nodes organized in a flexible mesh topology driven by connections between neighboring nodes.
Mobile Network
A cellular network or mobile network is a communication network where the final link is wireless.
Disaster resilience
A combination of a society's preparedness for a hazard, its ability to mitigate, plan for, and respond immediately and effectively, and its ability to recover and regenerate from the event.
Responsibilities of the city
City responsibilities are key domains within which municipal governments and their private sector partners deliver important services to residents, visitors and businesses.
Cultural delay
The notion that culture takes time to catch up with technological innovations, and that social problems and conflicts are caused by this lag. Subsequently, cultural lag not only applies to this idea, but is also related to theory and explanation.
Rails to Trails
The conversion of a disused railway into a multi-use path.
S
Carbon sequestration
The process of removing carbon from the atmosphere.
Informatic security
Security in a computing context is the ability to maintain the integrity of all data, software, hardware, and devices against unauthorized actors.
Sensors
A sensor is an electronic component, module, or subsystem whose purpose is to detect events or changes in its environment.
Digital signage
Digital signage can be easily implemented in smart cities thanks to improved access to power and robust communication networks. These signs can be used to improve the way people find or communicate emergency information, such as weather warnings or Amber Alerts.
Ecosystem services
Services provided by nature that humans and other organisms rely on in our daily lives.
Passenger transport services
Ride-hailing services organize one-time trips at very short notice, usually using a dedicated app.
Integrated services
In computer networks, integrated services are an architecture that specifies the elements to ensure quality of service in networks.
Sharrow
An arrow with a bicycle painted on it in vehicle lanes to indicate that cyclists have the right to use the road alongside vehicles.
Autonomous system
A system or network that gathers information, determines needs, and issues a response or another machine to answer the call.
Closed loop system
A system that does not exchange matter with substances outside its own parts.
System of Systems (SoS)
Large system offering unique capabilities, formed by the integration of independently useful systems
Legacy systems
In computing, legacy systems are old and obsolete methods, technologies, computer systems, or application programs.
Sustainability
Sustainability within a given geographical context refers to maintaining and improving ecological, social and economic health.
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5G technology
Today’s mobile technology runs on a 4G network that drives the growing consumer need for video and constant connectivity. 5G promises the capacity and speed that will be needed to power Smart City technology.
Traffic management technologies
It uses a system of different technologies, such as cameras, road sensors and other tools, to measure traffic patterns and send information to controllers to make the necessary adjustments to improve traffic flow.
Information and Communications Technology (ICT)
It refers to the integration of telecommunications, computers and associated business software, middleware, storage and audiovisual systems that allow users to access, store, transmit and manipulate information.
Location technologies
Through a sensor network, wireless devices can create a mesh location, the data from which can be collected and managed in a computerized tracking system that can operate to perform processing of the data obtained.
Chronic tensions
Tensions weaken the fabric of a city on a daily or cyclical basis.
Personal Rapid Transit (PRT)
Also known as podcars, these vehicles are operated using a computer and can transport small groups of people using electric motors on lightweight tracks. An example of this transportation system is found in Masdar City, United Arab Emirates, which is made up of ten autonomous vehicles and is the only form of transportation throughout the city.
Shared transportation
Ridesharing is a term to describe a demand-driven vehicle-sharing arrangement in which commuters share a vehicle on-demand or over time.
Smart Transportation
It aims to provide innovative services related to different modes of transport and traffic management and to enable various users to be better informed and make safer, more coordinated and better use of transport networks.
U
Urbanization
Urbanization refers to the shift of population from rural to urban areas, the gradual increase in the proportion of people living in urban areas, and the ways in which each society adapts to change.
V
Autonomous Vehicles
Vehicles capable of sensing their environment and navigating without human intervention.
Electric vehicles
Electric vehicles rely entirely on one or more electric motors for propulsion.
Hybrid vehicles
A gasoline-powered car that uses a battery to improve efficiency.
Workability
Viability is economic competitiveness, which can be measured by productivity, innovation and openness.
Artificial vision
Technology and applications used to provide image-based analytics for a wide range of applications including people counting, wrong-way driver detection, and intruder zone intrusion detection.
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