Smart CITY
- The Smart City Strategic Program promotes ICT support to strategic planning in order to obtain an overall sustainability and pursue positive externalities for local communities.
- In our vision a Smart City requires a holistic and integrated approach to the diffusion of "intelligence" in the infrastructures and functional systems of the City (e.g. mobility, logistics, building, urban planning, safety, health, energy, governance, etc.).
- An "integrated vision", with economically and environmentally sustainable objectives, industrial development (including new jobs), and a better quality of life are all essential elements of the Smart City.
- ICT is not only an enabling factor for the Smart City: it also provides powerful tools to visualize and analyze the transformational roadmap of the city, and to optimize it according to the energy-efficiency and low-carbon perspective.
- The Program takes into account the technological aspects of these transformations, as well as their social and economic impact on the community.
The Strategic Project started as internal research project aimed at:
- clearly identifying the Smart City application domain
- describing the state of the art of the Smart City efforts
- defining a set of KPIs to evaluate the "smartness" of a city
- proposing a roadmap towards "Torino Smart City"
- identifying and modeling the main systemic problems of a city
- developing theoretical and practical instruments for data management, modeling, simulation, and integrated strategic planning
The Program also coordinates other Research Projects in cooperation with ISMB's Research Areas according to the objectives defined by the Strategic Project. All projects are supported by competitive research programs and grants, and are carried out in partnership with research institutions and industries.