John Biggs

Data analytics startups are helping cities become more livable by using sensors and real-time data to monitor climate risk, energy use, traffic patterns, pollution, and waste collection, leading to smarter urban planning and resource management. These startups look at the data up close and make it personal.

Government-focused startups are developing technologies that help cities manage resources, track sustainability metrics, and enhance public services, driving efficiency and ecological resilience. These startups will keep governments in check and bring them into the 21st century.

AI and real-time monitoring startups provide cities with the tools to track environmental conditions, optimize waste management, and improve energy efficiency, making urban areas more adaptive and sustainable. These promising companies are using AI for good.

Startups are offering solutions that integrate green architecture, smart utilities, and circular economy practices to make cities more eco-friendly, reducing waste and energy consumption. These startups will keep us happy, safe, and cozy in our new urban environments.

Startups are using innovative technologies to address challenges like climate change, resource management, and pollution. From IoT to AI, these solutions aim to create smarter, more sustainable urban environments while reducing ecological footprints. This batch of startups promises to think big.

Livable cities entail full participation in all areas of life for people with disabilities. In spite of the many efforts that have been made in this regard, ableism is still pervasive in areas such as higher education and the arts, with students and academics facing attitudinal barriers, invisible work and a lack of accessibility literacy. A number of solutions for these mostly easy to overcome barriers are put forward.

Autonomous vehicles still need progress towards algorithms for perception in all-environmental conditions (e.g.bad weather). Data collection in such conditions needs complex equipment hard to set-up. At UPC-CD6 (https://www.cd6.upc.edu) we have built an instrumented car with multiple imaging modes (3D+2D) for mapping and sensor testing uses, and to build a publc dataset of driving scenarios to develop DL perception algorithms based on data fusion

Snap4City manages multiple domains in the city/area operating system enabling Digital Twin, operation, management, plan and strategic views for mobility and transport, tourism, security, etc. Cities are rapidly transforming their services to address societal and environmental challenges. Verticals are progressively replaced by solutions capable of exploiting a huge range of data channels, via Artificial Intelligence, and cross exploiting data.

In 2022, the Mantenim Circular project was launched, thanks to the joint work between the ITeC and the Waste Agency of Catalonia. The main objective of this initiative is to give a second life to products and materials in the construction sector. Without wanting to compete with any marketplace, Mantenim Circular aims to connect the available databases with the potential of existing circularity of materials.

Innovative mobility startups focus on reducing emissions and traffic congestion through electric vehicles, shared transportation, and smart infrastructure, promoting cleaner and more efficient urban travel options. This group of startups is really going places.

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Short presentation about the Digital City Science's tools and projects by Prof. Dr.-Ing Jörg Noennig Converging the Sustainable and Digital City: In projects like „Sustainable Development of Urban Regions (SURE)“ or the COUP tool we explore how two megatrends in current urbanism – the digital transformation of cities and the demand for sustainable urban development – can be unified into one scientific framework.