Cities grow, are growing. And innovation plays a huge role in this transformation.

Nearly 10,000 years ago, hunter-gatherers learned the secrets of selective farming and breeding, as well as finding ways to grow their own food. For the first time in history, humans found a way to survive without moving to another territory in search of new food sources. And that’s how it all started.

It was not until the Industrial Revolution that modern cities as we know them appeared. New technologies are deployed at scale allowing these vast communities to grow faster than ever before.

To improve these large communities and prevent them from collapsing, innovation has always been key. Cities need sanitation, properly built houses, safe transportation. And that list goes on forever. Even if we have evolved a lot since hunter-gatherers changed the course of history, there is still much work to be done.

So what is the future of cities?

The future of cities goes hand in hand with innovation. The city will no longer be a city. They will be Smart Cities.

City of the Future: Challenges
What will the city of the future look like?

There’s not just one good answer.

Cities are made up of the people who live in them, and people are deeply influenced by the culture and by the city itself. So two cities facing the same problem may need two different solutions.

And that is probably the main challenge faced when trying to develop Smart Cities. A Smart City is more than just a city that uses great technology. This is a city that thoroughly studies the habits and needs of its inhabitants and tries to correct them in the most appropriate way.

 That’s the hard part and the beauty of it, isn’t it?

In the City of the Future, Mobility Will Change Fundamentally

1. Traffic – it is consistently ranked as one of the main problems affecting cities. If there ever was such a thing as the perfect Smart City, smart mobility will play a big part in that.

Some of the key factors that will shape city mobility in the future are:

Shared mobility: Ride-hailing services have grown steadily over the years. And every indication is that they will continue to do so. Without a doubt, the city of the future is a city where everyone will share modes of transportation such as cars, motorbikes or scooters. Why own your own car when there’s something like Mobility As A Service? (MaaS)
Electric Vehicles: Electric vehicles are becoming more popular every year, but cities have a long way to go until they are fully prepared to “own” these types of vehicles. The number of existing chargers is still small and the grid capacity needs to be improved (currently, it is not fully prepared to charge vehicles such as electric buses.) Here are some problems in the application process. mass use of electric cars. , and cities will need to deal with them in the near future.
Traffic Management: Traffic is one of the major problems facing urban areas worldwide. Fortunately, new solutions are being introduced every day to try to fix this problem (or, at least, minimize its consequences). Startups and large corporations around are developing systems to try to solve this problem. For example, Pittsburgh has implemented a system that uses video and radar to analyze traffic at 50 intersections and adjust the signal in real time. This AI-based system reduced travel time by 26% and vehicle emissions by 21%.

Buildings in future cities are not just buildings

Today, 50% of the total population lives in cities. Studies predict that 35 years from now, that percentage will increase to 75%. That means we need to find a home for 3 billion people in just 35 years.

And, if we want the cities of the future to become smart cities, not every building is good enough. We need our skyline to be made up of buildings, among other things:

Sustainable: The buildings where we work and live produce nearly 50% of the planet’s CO2 emissions. Smart buildings are designed with sustainability in mind. This means things like low-energy homes, natural materials (like cork, clay or recycled paper,) that use renewable energy or reduce waste.
Safety: We are talking about buildings with integrated fire prevention or access and control systems. Obviously, it is also essential to protect the building’s systems from hackers.
Cost savings: There are many ways for smart buildings to help residents save money. It detects usage patterns and adjusts energy consumption. The cooling and ventilation system is adjusted automatically. Sensors can detect potential maintenance problems and prevent them before they happen. And more.

IoT: The core technology on which the city of the future is built

Without the Internet of Things, Smart Cities would not exist. These interconnected, smart cities rely on data collection for everything. And that’s what IoT sensors do: they collect data and feed it into a platform where it can be analyzed.

In the city of the future, devices must be able to communicate with each other in order to make decisions. Government and city officials must coordinate with network operators to arrange several connection points throughout the city to ensure proper communication.

Future Cities Will Be Sustainable (And This Is Not An Option)

Sustainability is key in the development of any Smart City and it is closely related to some of the other challenges we’ve covered throughout the article. We mentioned sustainable transport or buildings. But, hey, there’s a lot more:

Waste Management: Smart Cities need to face various problems related to waste management, such as over-full trash cans, unoptimized truck routes or the need for manure. mixed materials for recycling. Well-adopted technology can certainly help with these types of problems. For example, sensors attached to trash cans can measure fill levels, send automatic alerts if certain limits are reached, and automatically optimize a collection vehicle’s route.
Energy: “The city of the future will definitely save energy. It can even generate energy instead of consuming it.” Those are not our words. They are Daniyar Tanatov, Partner Account Manager at Spaceti. “It would be great if the cities of the future were self-sustainable, meaning they have to produce the energy they consume. The main challenge with this is convincing companies and governments to invest more in it. this field.” How do cities produce more energy than they consume? Turbines or rooftop solar panels are a possibility. Or even solar walls – buildings with solar panels incorporated into their facades.
Hours of Operation: Surprise, possible? According to the conclusion of research conducted by thinktank Autonomy, current working hours exceed what we would consider sustainable. Fewer hours of work means less travel, fewer products produced, and fewer resources used. Technologies like Artificial Intelligence can help overcome a challenge that today seems insurmountable.

City of the Future: Who’s Behind It?
Startups play an important role when it comes to finding new solutions to build the city of the future.

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