BARCELONA 2014

BARCELONAS POLITICAL VISION

Improve citizens welfare and
quality of life

Peoples city
Technology as an enabler for...

Integration and social cohesion

Communication and proximity with people
Knowledge, creativity and innovation
Environmental sustainability
A more efficient and sustainable urban mobility
Becoming a business-friendly and attractive capital
Transparency and democratic culture
Universal access to culture, education and health
care

Economic progress

STRATEGIC FRAMEWORKS

EUROPEAN COMISSION

BARCELONA CITY COUNCIL

BARCELONAS CITY MODEL

SMART
BARCELONA

BARCELONA
TRANSFORMATION OF A
RUNNING CITY

ROMAN (15-10 AC)

MEDIEVAL (1500 - 1600)

CERD PLAN (1859)

UNIVERSAL EXHIBITION(1888)

INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION (1900)

INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION (1929)

OLYMPICS (1992)

FORUM (2004)

TOWARDS BARCELONA 5.0: SMART CITY

Hbitat Urb

SMART CITY (2014)

PRINCIPLES OF A SMART CITY

1. Define the city model "mantra of the city"

2. Analyze the structure of the city and define action
plans
3. Rethink the systems of the city, not just update
them
4. Develop the economy of the city services along
with the ecosystem
5. Make the city more resilient and promote longterm investment
6. Build a livable city, increase public space for people
7. Change the organization breaking the "silos"
8. Work with other cities and be part of the City
Protocol Society

CITY MANTRA
Working towards the transformation
of Barcelona into a city of selfsufficient, human-scale and
productive neighborhoods, within an
eco-efficient, re-naturalized,
hyperconnected and zero emissions
Metropolitan Area

Barcelona is orienting its city evolution strategy toward guaranteeing quality of life for its
citizenry, social and urban improvement and added value in its neighborhoods. The city is
fostering all its urban potential within the framework of a sustainable development and a
green economy in favour of an energetically self-sufficient city where nature holds a
prominent role for its balance. A connected city with a high-speed interconnected
Metropolitan Area, that guarantees the regions evolution and the improvement of its inner
cities.

BARCELONA SMART CITY VALUES

+ EFFICIENT
+ SUSTAINABLE
+ PRODUCTIVE
+ SOCIAL
+ FREE

SOCIAL DREAM

RANKINGS 2012 - 2013

10th Smart City in the planet

1 of the 6 most successful Smart Cities

4th Smart City in Europe

1st Smart City in Spain

AWARDS

Biosphere Awards for Responsible Tourism

23/01/2014
Instituto de Turismo Responsable (ITR)
Organization associated to the UNESCO and the World Tourism Organization (UNWTO)

1st Position Capital of Innovation Finalist

iCapital
Introducing the use of new technologies to bring the city closer to the citizens
24/01/2014
EUROPEAN COMISSION

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BESOS
CitySDK
CloudOpting
Commons4EU
DC4Cities
EUNOIA
iCity
INSIGHT
Open-DAI
CONDUITS
FIREBALL
Green eMotion
MOLECULES
smartCEM
SUPERHUB
TRANS-FORM

LIGHTHOUSE + 10 INVITATIONS

SMART LOCAL PROGRAMS

INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION

INTERNATIONAL POSITIONING

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Telecom Networks
Urban Platform
Smart Data
Smart Lighting
Energy Self-sufficiency
Smart Water
Zero emissions mobility
Smart Parking &
Transportation
Urban Transformation
Smart Urban Furniture
Urban Resilience
Smart Citizens
O-Government & efficiency
Barcelona in your pocket
Optimized waste
management
Smart Regulation
Smart Innovation
Health
Education
Tourism
Industry and logistics
Safety

CITY ANATOMY

BARCELONA CONCEPTUAL MODEL

ENVIRONMENT

TIC

WATER

ENERGY

MATTER

CITY SCALE
PUBLIC SPACE
SERVICES
OPEN GOVERNMENT
INFORMATION FLOWS

MOBILITY

NATURE

SMART LOCAL PROGRAMS 2013 -2014

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Telecom Networks
Urban Platform
Smart Data
Smart Lighting
Energy self-sufficiency
Smart Water
Zero emissions mobility
Smart Parking & Transportation
Urban Tramsformation
Intelligent urban furniture
Urban resilience
Smart Citizens
O-Government & efficiency
Barcelona in your pocket
Optimised waste collection
Smart Regulation
Smart Innovation
Health
Education
Tourism
Industry & Logistics
Safety

Transversal programs

22 PROGRAMS IN 12 CITY AREAS

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Telecom
Network
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Smart
Water

4. Smart
Lighting
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Energy
selfsufficien
cy

7. Zero
emissions
mobility
8. Smart
Parking &
Transport
ation

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Optimised
waste
collection

9. Urban transformation
10. Intelligent urban furniture
11. Urban resilience
14. Barcelona in your pocket
16. Smart Regulation

12. Smart Citizens

2. Urban Platform

17. Smart Innovation

18. Health
19. Education

20. Tourism
21. Industry & Logistics
22. Security

13. O-Government & efficiency

3. Intelligent Data

24 SMART GLOBAL PROGRAMS

Telecomunications Networks (Paco Rodrguez)
Urban Platform (Paco Rodrguez)
Intelligent Data (Eduard Martn)
Smart Lighting (Cristina Castells)
Energy self-sufficiency (Cristina Castells)
Smart Water (Cristina Vila)
Zero emissions mobility (Jordi Ortuo)
Smart Parking & Transportation (Jordi Ortuo)
Urban Transformation (Maria Sisternas)
Intelligent urban furniture (Paco Rodrguez)
Urban resilience (Miquel Corral)
Smart Citizens (Sergi Jerez)
O-Government & efficiency (Sergi Jerez)
Barcelona in your pocket (Sergi Jerez)
Optimised waste collection (Paco Rodrguez)
Smart Regulation (Maria Galindo/Jlia Lpez)
Smart Innovation (Maria Galindo)
Health (Eduard Martn)
Education (Eduard Martn)
Tourism (Eduard Martn)
Industry & logistics (Enrique Martn)
Security (TBD)
23. International Positioning (Jlia Lpez)
24. International Cooperation (Jlia Lpez)
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Transversal programs

1. TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS

Strategic
Projects

Main
Partners

Goal

Achieving maximum coverage that

allows sensing the city ensuring
compliance and deployment of
antennas. Everything as a Service.

Description

Integrate the different existing

networks in Barcelona in a unique one
promoting the development of mobile
infrastructure and next generation
networks.

1. New Telecommunications Network

2. Antennas Plan
3. WIFI

1. TELECOMMUNICATIONS NETWORKS

1 OF THE 800 WIFI ACCES POINTS

Ciutadella Park

2. URBAN PLATFORM

Strategic
Projects

Main
Partners

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Goal

Make providers independent from

applications and sensorization,
allowing a multiprovider schema.
Improving city management &
offering new services

Description

Open infrastructure, information, etc.

to detach its technology solutions
providers, creating standardized
sensors and easy and supportive
applications.

Sensor Platform (SENTILO)

CityOS
iCity
CityDB
City SDK

6. Open DAI/ Innovation

2. URBAN PLATFORM

MOBILITY, PARKING AND NOISE SENSOR

Llull Street corner with Provenals Street

3. INTELLIGENT DATA

Strategic
Projects

Main
Partners

Goal

Integrate, share and measure city

information and its services.

Description

Provide tools based on city data to

measure its development level and
improve its governance.

1. Citys KPIs
2. Situation Room (Cityzenith Project included)

3. INTELLIGENT DATA

KPIs
Control Center

4. SMART LIGHTING

Strategic
Projects

Main
Partners

Goal

To ensure the criteria of light (color

temperature levels, uniformity,
contrast, etc..) that makes the city
lighting more efficient.

Description

Implement a lighting plan which

follows the guidelines of the smart
lighting concept, i.e. a technology
designed lighting for energy efficiency.

1. Master Lighting Plan

2. Sensors

4. SMART LIGHTING

ENVIRONMENTAL AND LOCATION ANALYTICS SENSORS

22@ District

5. ENERGY SELF-SUFFICIENCY

Strategic
Projects

Main
Partners

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Goal

Promoting a complete energy

autonomy , including buildings.

Description

Set of actions aimed at producing and

consuming the own energy by raising
awareness among the population.

Self-sufficient islands
Smart grid
Heating & Cooling Network
Energy self-sufficient plan
Building protocol

6. Electric Smart metering

7. Corporative buildings

5. ENERGY SELF-SUFFICIENCY

HEATING & COOLING NETWORK

22@ District

6. SMART WATER

Strategic
Projects

Main
Partners

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Goal

Providing a smart management of the

citys hydric resources, either for phreatic
water and groundwater management or
in a a rational consumption of the public
services (irrigation and fountains).

Description

Automatizing, testing and remotely

controlling the irrigation systems,
fountans and sewerage in order use
hydric resources in a more efficient
way.

Remote irrigation
Smart Sewer
Water table managemetn
Remote ornamental fountains
Pilot metering telemetry water

6. SMART WATER

1 of the 178 monitored watering gardens

Taulat promenade corner Josep Pla Gradens

7. ZERO EMISSIONS MOBILITY

Strategic
Projects

Main
Partners

Goal

Transforming electric vehicles in the

benchmark for individual, collective,
public and/or private transport in
Barcelona

Description

Develop systems of mobility which are

electric, sustainable, efficient, 0
emissions and minimum public space
occupation.

1. Zero emissions mobility

7. ZERO MOBILITY EMISSIONS

249 RECHARGING POINTS

Barcelona City

8. SMART PARKING & TRANSPORTATION

Strategic
Projects

Main
Partners

Goal

Developing parking systems that help

the driver finding available spots to park
their vehicle in the most efficient and
fast possible way in order to improve
urban mobility.

Description

Signaling available spots with lights

and designing mobility lines folowing
sustainability, viability, eficacy and
efficiency guidelines.

1. Vehicle guideway system

5. Ortogonal Bus Network
2. Public space utilization
6. Smart Parking
3. Sensorization & Identification of
new services in Les Corts district
4. Master Mobility Plan

10. SMART PARKING & TRANSPORTATION

PARKING SENSOR
22@ District

9. URBAN TRANSFORMATION

Strategic
Projects

Main
Partners

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Goal

Remodeling the main streets, zones,

areas, etc. of the city incorporating
viable, sustainable, efficient and
effective criteria.

Description

Incorporating smart components to all

the city transformations (energy
efficiency, connectivity, mobility, etc.)

Passeig de Grcia
Paralel Avenure
Sant Joan Promenade
La Sagrera
New Museum Center Montjuc

6. Glries
7. Canpia Urbana

9. URBAN TRANSFORMATION

1 OF THE 4 PRINCIPAL URBAN AREAS TO REMODELATE

Paralel Avenue

10. INTELLIGENT URBAN FURNITURE

Strategic
Projects

Main
Partners

Goal

Redesigning public objects installed in

Barcelona to make them more
sustainable.

Description

Designing urban furniture following

smart city criteria and strategy
(Livability, Viability and Sustainability).

1. Smartquesina
2. Kioskos

10. INTELLIGENT URBAN FURNITURE

SMART BUS SHELTER TABLET

11. URBAN RESILIENCE

Strategic
Projects

Main
Partners

Goal

Strenghen basic public services to

minimize their failing risks and
recovery time in the case of service
loss.

Description

Build infraestructure and urban services

tables where resilience projects are
developed and establishing the
international headquesters for the city
resilience profiling program in Barcelona.

1. United Nations Program

2. Infrastructure Table & Urban Services

13. URBAN RESILIENCE

OFFICIAL URBAN RESILIENCE HUB BARCELONA

Sant Pau Hospital

12. SMART CITIZENS

Strategic
Projects

Main
Partners

Goal

Getting the maximum return on the

resources and services of the city for
the benefit of the citizens.

Description

Endow the citizens with the city

resources for their own development
and performance.

1. Fab Labs
2. Citizenry Sensors
3. Whabit

12. SMART CITIZENS

FABKIDS WORKSHOP
Fab Lab Barcelona

13. O-GOVERNMENT & EFFICIENCY

Strategic
Projects

Main
Partners

Goal

Ease the interaction between the

citizens, the administrative procedures
and the city services.

Description

Enjoying an efficient electronic

administration service that will allow
to open, exploit and basically get the
maximum return from public data.

1. Open Data
2. Virtual Citizen Care Office
3. Electronic Administration

13. O-GOVERNMENT & EFFICIENCY

VIRTUAL OFFICE CITIZENRY ATTENTION

Casa del Mig 2

14. BARCELONA IN YOUR POCKET

Strategic
Projects

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Goal

Fostering the use of mobile

technologies to access city services,
boost mobile industry and place
Barcelona as a mobile technology
reference.

Description

Develop and promote apps aimed at

easing and enriching the lives of
Barcelonas residents and visitors.

Barcelona Contacless
Apps
Digital Identity
APPS4BCN
Mobile Ecosystem

6. MWC App
7. MWC Apps4all

14. BARCELONA IN YOUR POCKET

APP BICING
Diagonal Stop

15. OPTIMISED WASTE COLLECTION

Strategic
Partners

Main
Partners

Goal

Optimize the urban waste

management.

Description

Provide a smart automatized system to

collect waste and improving the
recycling rates.

1. Optimised waste collection

2. Green mobile point

18. OPTIMISED WASTE COLLECTION

1 OF THE 90 GREEN MOBILE POINT STOP

Joan Sales / Poesia Mondays from 16:00 to 19:30h

16. SMART REGULATION

Strategic
Projects

Main
Partners

Goal

Integrating the smart city projects in

the city and doing a progressive
deployment of these kind of solutions.

Description

Including Smart City contract terms in

public tenders, either for equipment or
services provision.

1. Tenders
2. Government Measures

16. SMART REGULATION

SAFETY & MOBILITY COMISSION

21th of Novembrer 2013

17. SMART INNOVATION

Strategic
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Goal

Creating a dialogue and

experimentation agora in order for any
kind of association, organization, etc to
innovate and research in the Smart
Cities field.

Description

Setting up and promoting

collaborative spaces so that any kind of
organization has the chance to develop
and test their own innovative Smart
City solutions.

Smart City Campus

6. Spark Lab
Smart City Tour
7. Bit Habitat
Smart City Cluster
8. MWC Lab
Urban Lab
mSmart City Competence Center

17. SMART INNOVATION

SMARTSHELTER BCN SMART CITY TOUR

Gran Via Fair

18. HEALTH

Strategic
Projects

Main
Partners

Goal

Transforming the health care system in

Catalonia through the use of ICT.

Description

Deploying and consolidating the

information network, TicSalut and
developing tools and models to ease
this transformation.

1. Catalan Health Plan

2. SITIC strategic plan
3. iSalut.cat

18. HEALTH

CATALONIA HEALTH PLAN

19. EDUCATION

Strategic
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Goal

Promote, train and make kids become

familiar with mobile technology.

Description

Develop all kinds of mobile initiatives

at school and in other spheres
providing the right material (tablets,
sensors, etc.).

Educat
mSchools
Raspberry BCN
4DLife
Smart Hort

6. Mobile Social Day

19. EDUCATION

mSCHOOLS
School in Barcelona

20. TOURISM

Strategic
Projects

Main
Partners

Goal

Boosting tourism in Catalonia and

Barcelona.

Description

Set of social networks aimed at

promoting tourism in Barcelona and
connecting tourists and catalans in
order to share experiences.

1. Geographic Information System of Tourism

2. Catalonia Experience Program
3. Smart Shopping BCN

20. TOURISM

GEOGRAPHIC INFORAMATION SYSTEM - GIS

www.catalunya.com/mapa

21. INDUSTRY & LOGISTICS

Strategic
Projects

Main
Partners

Goal

Increase the competitiveness of the

catalan industrial sectors, enhancing
collaborative work and easing the access
of the companies and industrial sectors to
high level ICT infraestructures.

Description

Interconnecting business sectors and

high-tech resources promoting ICT use.

1. Industrial ring

21. INDUSTRY & LOGISTICS

www.anellaindustrial.cat

22. SAFETY

Strategic
Projects

Main
Partners

1. Pending

Goal

Pending

Description

Pending

22. SAFETY

23. INTERNATIONAL POSITIONING

Strategic
Projects

Main
Partners

Goal

Positioning Barcelona as a world hub

for knowledge, development, citizens
quality of life and sustainability.

Description

Hosting all kind of fairs, events,

congress, etc. related to Smart Cities
(Livability, Viability, Sustainability).

1. Barcelona Events(SC Expo, SC Tour, MWC, etc.)

2. International Events Participation

23. INTERNATIONAL POSITIONING

MOBILE WORLD CONGRESS 2013

Barcelona Fair

24. INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION

Strategic
Projects

Main
Partners

Goal

Working together in order to achieve

common goals for all the direct or
indirect Smart Cities stakeholders.

Description

Taking advantage of the knowledge and

experience of all the smart Cities
related members to speed up the
livable, viable and sustainable
transformation of the cities.

1. City Protocol
2. Relations with Europe (European Projects)

24. INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION

CITY PROTOCOL SOCIETY