Google Maps LinkSmart City models are being promoted as a cure to solve the challenges of big metro cities
globally. African Metro Cities are suffering from a complex number of challenges which this
satellite event tries to address with the help of smart city models, associated emerging digital
technologies and best practices from existing smart city deployments. Smart city models with
their digital twins’ platforms are tools that can be used to provide innovative solutions to the
challenges of resource utilization, environment and air pollution monitoring, intelligent
transportation systems, remote health monitoring, water and waste management and
electricity power utilization in big African Metro cities. For example the recent underground
gas explotion in the City of Johannesburg, could have been avoided by smart city gas
sensors, connected to alarm systems using IoT networks. A “Smart City” by definition is a
city that can sense, measure and record its environment, it also includes networked
interconnection between the sectors of its economy for data sharing and co-optimization of
resource utilization. Furthermore a smart city has the capacity for high performance
computing for analysis of data gathered by Internet of Things (IoT) smart sensors and
visualizing the data in a digital twin platform, predict real-time and offline events and
perform foresight analysis for future decision making. The workshop will also address the Digital Twin concept as a virtual representation of physical systems and processes of metro
city environments and develop proof of concept applications for remedial innovations on a
common platform. This is expected to help data visualization and study of sustainability and
impact of smart city technology deployments, including urban dwellers safety and privacy in
a controlled setup. Examples of smart city models implemented in different cities and their
impact will also be presented as best practices to learn from.
Swedish Context: Next steps, on how to extend the digital transformation based on IoT Smart
sensors for developing relevant and sustainable applications. The recently introduced IoT Masters
program at Malmö University will be discussed with industry players from Mobile Heights (MH), an
Association of industry players focused on sustainable digitalization and development of a
sustainable ecosystem of smart city services and industry creation.
1- Presentation of Position paper on Smart Cities for Metro Cities of Africa, ...30 Min
2- On Swedish Industry view on sustainable digitalization and Smart City Services,....30 Minutes
3- Panel Discussion With Invited Experts from Industry & Academia.........45 Minutes
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4- Summary and Conclusion........ 15 Minutes.
Keywords: Smart Cities, Sustainable Digitalization, Digital Twins, Innovation, IoT
