We had the pleasure to welcome French colleagues from the UTBM (Université de Technologie de Belfort-Montbéliard) at the HEG Arc. They have a longstanding expertise in AI applied to Smart Cities, human-computer interaction, intelligent transport systems, and so forth. UTBM and HEG Arc have been cooperating for many years.
We discussed the possibility of submitting a follow-up project to Smart CityZens, starting in 2021. The project would include academic, public and private partners from different countries, as it was the case this year. We worked on the project objectives and discussed which topics would be relevant for Smart Cities of tomorrow.
We will see our colleagues again in Belfort and in Neuchâtel, with the support of the Communauté du Savoir, and will meet with potential project partners from France and Switzerland. Let us hope that Smart CityZens will live further!
Post: G. Chappuis. Photos: J. Wirth.
New research paper
mercredi 07 Oct 2020
Two of our professors and one of our students from Samara have just published a research paper based on the results of Smart CityZens: “Issues of ensuring economic and energy security in the “smart city” system”, by Anna Zotova, Irina Svetkina and Dinara Gilmanova.
The full version of the article is available here for download. For those who do not read Russian, here is the English version of the abstract.
Abstract The publication reflects the results of research on economic security issues at the level of administrative center of the subject of the Russian Federation in the context of the development of the “smart city” system. Cutting-edge technologies are becoming a powerful engine of transformation, including the energy sector. Development of smart cities and digitalization of services require reorganization of the energy business, search of new innovative opportunities and the development of new strategies, the final result of which will be the creation of new business models for energy suppliers. As a result of largescale statistics and practical cases analysis the main (specific) smart risks, smart challenges and smart threats for the economic security system of the largest city have been classified, recommendations to modify existing business models for Russian energetic industry have been offered.
