SMART CITIES, FIRA BARCELONA
New York, July 27./2011 (EFE) .- The Fira of Barcelona presented today in New York's project on intelligent cities Smart City, which advocates use technology to manage more efficient and sustainable urban spaces.
"It will be first in Europe, but certainly want to be a global event," said the director of the sample, Lluís Gómez, during a press conference in New York.
Gomez met this week with city officials, entrepreneurs, researchers and scholars from New York to involve them in the first edition of Smart City, being held from November 29 to December 2 coming in the Fira in the Great Via the city.
He also met with representatives of major companies such as Accenture, Cisco, IBM, Siemens, and experts from prestigious universities such as Columbia or the University Institute of Technology (MIT). "New York is of course a reference city for us, in particular for their efforts in energy and urban mobility. Everything that happens here is important and always has a global dimension," said director of Smart City Expo.
Gomez, announced that this year expected to focus attention on the proposals of the Delegation of Japan, a pioneer in this field and already has four projects underway smart cities but has rethought its energy future for the accident at the plant Fukushima nuclear.
Smart City's main challenge to improve the quality of life for city dwellers, increasingly affected by population density, under a model of sustainable development and environmentally friendly spaces to create "smart" for all citizens
Gomez met this week with city officials, entrepreneurs, researchers and scholars from New York to involve them in the first edition of Smart City, being held from November 29 to December 2 coming in the Fira in the Great Via the city.
He also met with representatives of major companies such as Accenture, Cisco, IBM, Siemens, and experts from prestigious universities such as Columbia or the University Institute of Technology (MIT). "New York is of course a reference city for us, in particular for their efforts in energy and urban mobility. Everything that happens here is important and always has a global dimension," said director of Smart City Expo.
Gomez, announced that this year expected to focus attention on the proposals of the Delegation of Japan, a pioneer in this field and already has four projects underway smart cities but has rethought its energy future for the accident at the plant Fukushima nuclear.
Smart City's main challenge to improve the quality of life for city dwellers, increasingly affected by population density, under a model of sustainable development and environmentally friendly spaces to create "smart" for all citizens
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