Barcelona and its ICT projects and solutions for Smart Cities
The Indian Leaders visited the Municipal Institute of Informatics (IMI in Spanish), which provides information and communication technology (ICT) services to the City Council of Barcelona. VII edition activity summary
The Indian Leaders also visited the Municipal Institute of Informatics (IMI in Spanish), a local autonomous body of the Barcelona City Council whose objective is to provide all information and communication technology (ICT) services to the City Council and the agencies and public companies that depend on it. There they were received by Jordi Cirera, Director of the Knowledge Society Office of the IMI, who presented to the Indian Leaders different ICT projects and solutions for smart cities.
The Leaders showed great interest in the open-source software Sentilo (term meaning "sensor" in Esperanto), awarded with the Open Awards 2016 as the most innovative open-source software platform. This sensor network knows the flow of people and bicycles crossing the city's major avenues or arteries, the decibels levels on each street, the temperature of each neighborhood or the air quality being breathed. He also presented to the Leaders the CityOS initiative, an infrastructure based on open-code Big Data technology, which uses single-window access and internal data management, known as a "Data Lake”. This infrastructure provides better data governance, quality controls, more effective privacy and security and, above all, it gives the City Council an overview of this area.
