The Valencia Smart City Project

  • Public Initiative
  • Local/Regional
  • Edge
Last updated: 2021-10-20 01:12

⭐ Good Practice Description:

The Valencia Smart City Project, which began in July 2014, aimed to integrate data and processes of municipal services into a platform that would help improve the efficiency and responsiveness of administration. This project, which includes 17 initiatives, aims to provide the city with new solutions in five different areas – mobility, governance, environment, society, and wellbeing.

Success Factors:

Business Success

The Valencia Smart City project is an example of the potential value of integrating systems of records data (e.g. enterprise resource planning [ERP] and citizen registries) with feeds from IoT and edge computing. The Valencia initiative includes a good practice related to business impact of edge computing because of how it uses the data integrated on the platform to improve citizen services.

Stakeholders



Strategic Goals

The introduction of the smart city project enabled the city to centralize information on municipal services. Moreover, the use of the Valencial Smart City platform offers transparency to citizens and increases the efficiency of municipal services.

Solutions Developed / Used

With the VLCi Platform, the city is able to compile key indicators of city management and urban services from the integration of data collected from the sensors installed throughout the city and individual smartphones.

Description

Start Date

01/01/2014

Project Focus

  • Operator

Geographical Scope

  • Local/Regional

Keywords

  • Edge

Cloud Delivery Model

  • PaaS

Cloud Deployment Model

  • Hybrid

Project Life-Cycle Stage

  • Operational Deployment

Industry

  • Public Administration

Industry

  • Smart Cities

Technology

  • Big Data
  • Edge Computing
  • Internet of Things (IoT)