Cisco acude a Smart City Expo World Congres 2013 with its solutions for the Internet of Everything

Tomorrow the Smart City Expo world congress opens its doors in Barcelona. Cisco will attend with its SCC strategy and explain how to convert urban centers into smart communities connected through the Internet of Everything.

Cisco will participate in the next edition of Smart City Expo World Congress, which will begin tomorrow Tuesday at Barcelona Fair and will conclude 21 November. He will take advantage of his attendance to analyze the present and future of cities and explain how to convert urban centers into intelligent communities connected through the Internet of Things. (Internet of Everything).

For the third consecutive year, the congress will bring together cities, companies, political leaders, experts and professionals from different areas interested in transforming cities and guaranteeing sustainable urban growth.

Smart City Expo World Congress will be structured around presentations, round tables and exhibition area on topics such as energy, TIC, urbanism, mobility, security or governance and economy. Anne Long, director of Cisco IBSG in France, will participate in the meeting titled “City Solutions and Urban Visualization” that will take place on Thursday 21 November within the Technology and Innovation panel.

In 2050, he 70% of the population will be urban

One hundred years ago, only twenty cities in the world had more than one million inhabitants.; today there are more than 400, and their number continues to increase. According to the HIM, nearly 2.000 Millions of people will live in urban centers of this size in 2025. And if currently more than half of the world lives in cities, to 2050 almost a 70% of the world's population will be urban.

“Developing and maintaining the infrastructure of these cities requires a large investment, with the consequent environmental impact and the need to manage resources in a sustainable way”, highlights José Manuel Petisco, general director of Cisco Spain.

Through its Smart Connected Communities strategy (SCC), Cisco has proven experience in transforming urban spaces into smart connected communities, collaborating with cities, Administrations and partners so that systems and services before disparate as health, education, transport, security, energy or water are connected and managed through the same open and integrative platform.

“Smart cities must rely on the Internet and IP networks as an intelligent platform that allows better use of resources and facilitate the transition from current models of unsustainable growth that are complex to control towards models based on sustainable growth in economic terms., social and environmental”, explains Petisco.

A first step to achieve this transformation is to take advantage of the potential of the Internet of Everything, the intelligent connection of billions of objects capable of generating information that can be used to optimize multiple processes. By providing spaces and objects (parking lots, factories, headlights, transport systems, electrical networks and even medical devices…) of sensors connected to IP networks, Urban managers can obtain information in real time to optimize existing public services and adopt new ones.

Above this network, it is necessary to develop and implement applications and processes capable of converting data into useful information., and that, being based on standards, they can later be applied in other cities. “The transformation of current cities into smart cities requires the open collaboration of a broad ecosystem of partners.”, Administrations, organizations, universities and research centers, and it also represents a business opportunity for companies in a multitude of sectors.; something that we will be able to verify in this new edition of Smart City Expo World Congress”, clarifies the general director of Cisco Spain.

Barcelona Initiative 2020

Cisco, together with a wide range of companies in the industry, collaborates with Barcelona City Council in defining the Barcelona initiative 2020, that aims to transform the city into a global benchmark in sustainable urban development and an economic engine in Southern Europe for the year 2020.

He is also working on the evolution of the City Protocol, an initiative led by Barcelona City Council and presented at the last edition of the Smart City Expo that constitutes the first certification system for smart cities that can be adopted by any urban center in the world.

Besides, Barcelona has launched other projects to make the Barcelona initiative a reality 2020, as a dynamic network of high-tech companies and the desire to facilitate a Living Lab open to new innovative experiences in the field of public services.