As smart cities continue to develop and improve year on year

In the architecture of current and future Smart Cities, businesses have the opportunity to play a crucial role. What each of them can bring to the table at a local level, can also bring further value to the wider ecosystem of a smart city

The European Commission recently launched five missions that put major challenges for European citizens into focus. Perhaps the most exciting element of this is that these missions connect communities with their residents in a way that hasn’t been seen before, engaging them as a key part of the transformation into a better, brighter Europe, while also making citizens fully aware of their roles within their urban ecosystems

Twenty years on, the impact of 9/11 in the shaping of smart cities across the world is undeniable. But where the rapid development of new technologies for data gathering and processing have pushed forward tremendous advances in infrastructure, there are many questions that remain to be answered about privacy and security, and how to stop data from falling into the wrong hands

As smart cities continue to develop and improve year on year, we get a greater understanding of the role that innovation plays in their day-to-day functioning. Here, I take a closer look at some leading examples on how cities can use the resources available to them as a way of improving urban living