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cities represented
and solutions showing visitors how a Smart
city could be in 2013.
Among the featured technologies were
smart mobility systems, digital access platforms
to public lavatories, electric vehicles, car parking
sensors, smart lightning, microgeneration energy,
and apps for citizens to obtain information about
their urban environment and to inform city
authorities of any issue or deterioration on the street.
This space showed the extent to which these
innovations would mean an improvement in the
quality of life of citizens and a decrease of the
environmental impact of human activity and of the
costs of services maintenance.
World Smart City Awards
In this event, awards went to Rio de Janeiro for
City; Japanese Funabashi Mori-no-City Futuristic
Hometown for Project, and Smart Citizen -
Crowdsensing Open Community fro Fab Lab
Barcelona for Initiative.
The commitment of the city government of Rio
de Janeiro for a change of model and a radical
transformation of the city received the World
Smart Cities Awards recognition, whose jury
valued the start of a long-term project to turn the
Carioca city into a smart example to follow in
the southern hemisphere.
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