Greencities investigates the parallelism between the development of Industry 4.0 and smart cities

In Greencities, the urban sustainability and smart city forum, GMV has presented its portfolio of smart-city services and products, now set up in over 400 clients from 35 different countries: mechanisms for protecting them and monitoring and managing incidents that jeopardize service provision; air- and water-quality monitoring developments using smart sensors; smart citizen card for intermodal urban mobility, among others.

Miguel Hormigo, Industry manager of GMV’s Secure e-Solutions sector, took part in the debating panel “Technological solutions for Smart Cities” moderated by Fernando García, Coordinator of the Smart City Interplatform Group (GICI in Spanish initials). Hormigo explained how typical Industry 4.0-type disruptive technology can be extrapolated to cities for providing new services of value to their citizens. Just as in industry “town- and city-councils also need to digitalize their business, their portfolio, the vertical and horizontal linkages of the value chain and be able to measure results”. He argued that “by applying Business Intelligence and Big Data technologies, public managers can obtain evidence on citizen needs and come up with answers, adapting services to suit and improving the quality of life”.

Furthermore, application of micro indicators like productivity, quality of life, infrastructure development, environmental sustainability, fairness and social inclusion guarantee the effectiveness of the services rolled out to meet public-sector client needs, i.e., citizens, and drive change by channeling demands.

Similarly, enabling technologies like “Big Data, cyber-physical systems, robotics, cloud computing, IoT and other disruptive, traceability-boosting technology like Blockchain will enable us to offer autonomous, smart services”. At the same time, smart cities, increasingly connected “cannot afford cyber-weaknesses that might jeopardize citizen data and services”.

Hallmark Industry 4.0 technology is now being applied by GMV in different sectors (intelligent transportation, government authorities, healthcare, Smart Agro, etc.), always taking in the whole cybersecurity lifecycle.