ICTs & Home automation

Many cities have responded to the current sustainability challenges by integrating Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) to optimise efficiency in the management of urban infrastructures. "Smart City is the term typically used for those urban areas, regardless of the base of a smart city consisting of the correct planning of its urban fabric, along with the characteristics of the building spaces to be found there. The mobility factor is likewise of great important in the sphere of designing the city and directs the citizens towards more sustainable urban mobility.

Therefore, this Ideas Network will particularly focus on the role played by the new technologies in achieving a Smart City, dispelling the idea that the ICTs are the basis of a Smart City, and describing them as auxiliary elements for the city to function correctly.

The applications of these new technologies at the level of housing and buildings of different uses will be known as Home Automation and Building Automation, respectively.