Trento Smart City

According to the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (IEEE), Trento appears in the ranking of 10 planet cities smarter. This prestigious award will allow the city to develop a specific project on quality of life. In this way, the City has recently presented the strategic plan "Trento Smart City" promoting, the first event organized in conjunction with the University of Trento, Trento RISE and IEEE: the conference "IEEE Smart Cities Initiative. Trento and Trentino: smart cities and communities in the service of the citizen ", is an opportunity to organize workshops, seminars, meetings and discussions involving the local personalities, citizenship, national and international experts. 

 What does it means Trento "smart"?

According to the IEEE, which began its research with pilot project on Guadalajara city  and chose Trento to continue trials, means developing a " macro-City-system that harmonizes its subsystems dynamically with an intensive use of ICT". It means thinking about a self-regulation system, optimizing energy resources, luminous, viability and environmental sustainability. It means creating a network that can communicate and evaluated by the "Internet of Things" (network of hi-tech objects) to develop a real system can intelligently manage their resources.

This revolution will involve every part of city life: from the parking management, security, traffic, informing individual. Since some years in the province are made experiments to bring these integrated systems in hospitals and in companies of excellence of the territory, but with this more important initiative of the institute of electronic experimentation (IEEE), Trento will become an advanced laboratory, even with the collaboration of research institutions such as the University of Trento Trentino and Trento Rise, with several companies and organizations that have their research centers in the area, including Dolomiti Energia, Engineering Ingegneria Informatica, Reply Communication Valley, Telecom Italy and Trentino Network.

About this, the general director Chiara Morandini, asserts that the town of Trento should welcome with great satisfaction the decision of IEEE Smart Cities Initiative, which is a result, but also a tool to further improve the quality of life of our community.

Leonardo Minuzzo