Smart Cities: Integrating AI and open data
How AI and open data are enhancing the quality of smart cities
Smart cities are transforming urban environments across the European Union by integrating digital technologies to enhance traditional urban planning services and infrastructure. These cities aim to create more efficient, sustainable, and safer spaces by leveraging innovations like AI and open data.
AI technologies, powered by precise open data, are improving quality of life in urban areas. For example, the EU-funded project AMIGOS uses AI-driven smart cameras and sensors to monitor city spaces in Las Rozas, Madrid, providing real-time data that helps city planners make informed decisions. A similar initiative, ELABORATOR, is being implemented in the French district of Issy-les-Moulineaux, near Paris. This system uses AI to automatically manage intersections, creating more space for cyclists and alerting drivers to their presence based on traffic conditions and user activity.
The success of smart cities is amplified by the combination of open data and AI. Open data provides a large amount of data for AI systems to function effectively, delivering accurate and actionable insights. Examples have been shown during our data.europa academy webinars, such as Dublin which demonstrated how open data helps smart cities using digital twin technology for data-driven decision-making. Another example is Rotterdam, which uses real-time data to support transparent decision-making and collaborative urban planning, offering a practical example of how technology can enable sustainable urban development. Both cities show that open data is important for AI-driven smart city solutions.
The Commission's Smart Cities Marketplace supports cities in utilising open data to drive transformative change. Do you want to dive deeper into the world of smart cities and are you curious about the details of the innovative digital twin technology in Dublin and Rotterdam? Watch the recorded Dublin webinar and the Rotterdam webinar.
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