Experts in smart sustainable cities.
Strategy, research and analytics services for Urban Big Data.
What we do
Big data analytics, urban indicators and predictive systems for the optimization of policies, services and quality of life in the city in compliance with the Sustainable Development Goals.
Urban indicators
Sustainable development goals
Smart Sustainable Cities and Territories
Services
Urban studies based on indicators
Our know-how in terms of international standards and data sources applicable to different scales, contexts and purposes allows us to develop a variety of urban studies based on indicators.
We are specialists in helping understand and visualize cities and territories. We use diagnosis tools, city indicators benchmarking, urban activity and metrics monitoring, and Big Data analytics.
Smart and sustainable cities and territories strategies
We collaborate with both local administrations and private entities in the development of smart and sustainable planning strategies.
We provide our expertise in the planning and design stages, aligning the plans and strategies with the Sustainable Development Goals and the 2030 Urban Agenda.
We implement leading solutions on diagnostics and design, with the addition of participation and consultation tools.
Evaluation of city policies, projects and strategic plans
We have experience in assessing compliance and socio-economic impact of smart cities and territories plans, policies and projects.
We carry out the evaluations through the selection of urban indicators, the consultation with stakeholders and by checking with predetermined goals and international quality standards.
Besides creating reports, we use striking state-of-the-art visualization tools to show the results, making the data dynamic and attractive to work with, and thus enabling transparency.
Projects
Evaluation of the Alcobendas 2020 Design Strategic Plan
In 2013, the City Council of Alcobendas defined its Strategic Design Plan Alcobendas 2020. In order to measure the degree of compliance with its strategy, Smart&City has created a system of urban indicators whose result has allowed to evaluate its real impact in the city. Likewise, its alignment with the Sustainable Development Goals has been proposed. This project has been included as a good practice within the Excellence in Management Club .
Smart & Sustainable Planning for Xiongan New Area
In collaboration with the Ricardo Boffil Architecture Workshop , Smart&City has participated in the restricted international competition for the new Xiongan area south of Beijing. Thanks to our study of socio-economic indicators in the region, we have developed the smart & sustainable city strategy , which has included simulations, the implementation of the 5G network and its associated sensors network, together with a comprehensive analysis of the integration of ecology urban area of the new area.
The Sustainable Development Goals in 100 Spanish cities
In collaboration with REDS-SDSN (The Spanish Network for Sustainable Development), Smart&City has developed a system of urban indicators that are a tool to support local administrations in assessing progress in the implementation of the 2030 Agenda. This is a pioneering study that places 100 Spanish cities in relation to the degree of compliance with the SDGs.
Review of Urban Indicators Methodologies
Cities lead a new role as catalysts for the global economy. New urban challenges need a holistic and analytical approach through city metrics. There are numerous city assessment methodologies that measure the impact of smart strategies and compare solutions. They try to analyze the intelligence of the city, but they differ in their objectives, metrics and results. More than 80 methodologies of international indicators have been evaluated in order to identify their limitations and clarify which parameters should be measured to achieve maximum efficiency in the management of resources.
Relations between indicators of the ISO 37120 standard
The main objective of this study is to have a first approximation of how the main and secondary indicators defined by the standard relate to each other. This standard gives assigned indicators to the city, but does not offer guidance on the urgency or relevance of dealing with some issues over others. Knowing from an objective perspective the interrelation between its indicators constitutes the first step to define a critical path of factors to be solved in the way towards sustainable development of a city, marking the priorities of the actions to be undertaken.
Evaluation of Open Government Portals
The Administrations are committed to a horizontal Open Government strategy, with the aim of promoting transparency, open data and participation in decision-making. Most of them carry it out through web portals that allow access to public data for citizens or companies. The objective of this paper is to evaluate the state of these initiatives; identify the best practices within their strategies; demonstrate gaps such as lack of standardization; evaluate the quality of data on formats, utility and obsolescence.
Publications and Presentations
2019
2019_02: Round Table discussion of municipal technicians and citizen interest groups of the City of Alcobendas for the evaluation of the Design Plan Alcobendas 2020
2019_01: Round Table discussion of experts for the evaluation of the Design Plan Alcobendas 2020
2018
2018_12: Presentation in ARUP of the Report on the Sustainable Development Goals in 100 Spanish cities.
2018_11: Presentation in El Prat de Llobregat of the Report on the Sustainable Development Goals in 100 Spanish cities, in the Day of the construction of the 2030 Agenda and the SDGs from the municipal level.
2018_11: Presentation at the Musol Foundation in Valencia of the Report on the Sustainable Development Goals in 100 Spanish cities, in the workshop “Twenty Years of International Cooperation for Development, from the municipalism. ODS and Municipalities”.
2018_10: Presentation of the Report for the Spanish Network for Sustainable Development (REDS-SDSN), ‘Looking to the future: sustainable cities. The Sustainable Development Goals in 100 Spanish cities’, in the FEMP, Madrid.
2018_05: Publication of the article “Smart Sustainable Cities: the Big Data Opportunity” in the monthly Magazine of the Spanish Association for Quality (AEC).
2018_06: Participation in the Data Journalism Workshop 2018: the SDGs related to the environment in MediaLab Prado Madrid.
2018_06: Presentation of the preliminary results of the ODS Report in Spanish cities at the Ibero-American Conference on Sustainable Development Goals.
2018_05: Publication of the study on Relations between indicators of the UNE standard: ISO 37129: 2015 Sustainable Development of communities , in the III Congress of Smart Cities 2017, Madrid.
2018_05: Panel of academic experts for the definition and localization of ODS indicators in Spanish cities, ITD-UPM, Madrid.
2018_04: Collaboration with the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei for the preparation of the SDSN Italia SDGs City Index 2018 report.
2018_04: Participation in the 9th Urban Intelligence and Sustainability Forum, Green Cities Málaga.
2017
2017_11: Presentation at the University of Naples Federico II, (Italy). Il ruolo della Mobilitá Urbana nella Smart City. The role of mobility in Smart Cities. Madrid Case Study.
2017_09: Presentation and approval of the project “Traffic.Tec – Real time analysis and prediction software for traffic management” for the Joint call between the study and project financier (FINEP) and the center for industrial technological development (CDTI) – ICT Cooperation Brazilian – Spanish
2017_06: Publication of the study on Relations between indicators of the UNE standard: ISO 37129: 2015 Sustainable Development of communities, for the Ministry of Development, Madrid.
2017_05: Publication of the review study of urban indicator methodologies, III Smart Cities Congress 2017, Madrid.
2017_05: Publication of the evaluation study of open government portals in Spain, III Congress of Smart Cities 2017, Madrid.
2017_02: Mapping City Indicators Methodologies, 2nd International conference on “Smart and sustainable planning for cities and regions-SSPCR 2017”, Bolzano, Italy.
2017_02: Open Data Assessment in Italian and Spanish cities, 2nd International conference on “Smart and sustainable planning for cities and regions-SSPCR 2017”, Bolzano, Italy.
2017_01: Implementing Sustainable Development Goal 11 by connecting sustainability policies and urbanplanning practices through ICTs, ITU-U4SSC United for Smart Sustainable Cities.
2017_01: Data taxonomy for cities, ITU-U4SSC United for Smart Sustainable Cities.
2017_01: Directors / Tutors of the Indicators, Energy and Mobility module for the Master in Smart Infrastructures: Smart Cities of Structuralia. Isabel I. University.
2016
2016_10: Presentation “Analysis of Initiatives Grid 2.0 and the introduction of Distributed Generation. Price schemes “, III Smart Grids Congress 2016, Madrid.
2016_07: Presentation of the Open Data Portals in Spanish Cities study, 2nd International Conference on City Sciences 2016, Santiago, Chile, Chile.
2016_06: Presentation of the report on guidelines for Spanish municipalities in the field of smart cities, for the Ministry of Development, Madrid.
2016_05: Publication of the article “The role of metrics: challenges, opportunities and shortcomings for smart cities”, TELOS Magazine 105. Journal of Thinking on Communication, Technology and Society, Telefónica, Madrid.
2016_02: Presentation of the project “ISO Methodology Application for Smart Cities”, in the first GICI Workshop of the Ministry of Economy, Madrid.
2015
2015_09: Opening class of the 2015-2016 course of the Master in City Sciences “Global City Scientists Platform” Course 2015-2016, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.
2015_07: Presentation of the UPM Campus of the Future project in the UPM 2015 summer course “The cities of the future: some challenges, some solutions, some examples”.
2015_06: Presentation of the project “Global City Sciences, International professional network”, at the 1st International Conference on City Sciences 2015, Tongji University, Shanghai, China.
2015_05: Presentation of the project ‘The Campus of the Future’, at the 1st International Conference on City Sciences 2015, Tongji University, Shanghai, China.
Clients
Methodology
Data Collection
Analytics
Results
KPIs Definition
Visualization
Participation
Data Collection
KPIs Definition
Analytics
Visualization
Results
Participation
The Team
Javier García
Co-founder – Specialist in Urban Strategy and Evaluation
Raffaele Sisto
Co-founder - Specialist in Urban Indicators
Alberto Quintanilla
Co-founder – Specialist in Data Analysis and Management
Guillermo Velazquez
Co-founder – Specialist in Mobility and Sustainable Development
Contact information
28015 – Madrid
