Welcome to the SMART City E+ Tool

Each city is different. Each city must therefore meet specific essentials and challenges. These can be urban challenges, their infrastructure, the government services, mobility, prosperity, the growing population (or its ageing), the environment, good governance, etc. Each city therefore needs to identify, model and develop their own smart city concept. The SMART City E+ tool is a new breed of integrated modelling and architecture tool. It is offered as a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution, and consists of 2 major application components:

1. A SMART City Modelling Software component where the expert can create and work with many different types of modelling and architecture components; and
2. A Knowledge Management system where the SMART City models, views and standards can be posted for anybody within and across the teams. You can also publish content and pages where citizens can comment on the program, project, initiative or concept. This provides a whole new SMART City development and continuous improvement possibility between the city and the citizens. Who feel they are part of developing and enhancing the SMART City concept, providing a whole new experience to modelling, publishing, referencing, commenting and continuous improvements in a collaborative and user-friendly environment.

The SMART City Modelling Software Component

To transform itself into a smart city, any city has to direct its objectives, program and projects along a SMART City direction, considering multiple dimensions:

• SMART City Strategy: one of the most basic, but also relevant areas, is defining the directional components. Specifying the smart city vision, strategy and objectives. This also sets the basis for the SMART City initiatives and thereby the portfolio management.
• Urban Planning: It can be labelled as the structural scaffolding of a smart city; its maintenance system as well as the adjusted blueprint concept of the city. A smart city is an urban development concept to incorporate multiple information and communication technology (ICT) and Internet of Things (IoT) solutions.
• The smart economy: it is a city that wants to position itself as a capital of the new economy and innovation as well as a centre that draws people to it.
• Smart Government: it is a city whose public services have entered the digital era with efficient online services, wifi and the use of digital data produced in the city.
• The smart environment: it is a city which reconciles its roles as a living space, for mobility, an economic centre… while reducing its footprint on the planet (reduced consumption of energy and natural resources and reduced polluting emissions).
• Smart mobility: it is the city which organises itself to offer an alternative to car congestion and pollution by promoting the effectiveness of means of collective and sustainable travel.
• The smart population: it is a city which fosters the development of its citizens by levelling out inequalities and encouraging them to acquire skills.
• The smart living environment: it is a city which pushes itself up to the highest level in terms of health and safety for example.
• SMART Technology usage: Smart cities all share the characteristic of acting on their services and activities to make them more efficient. The ways they achieve this are very diverse, but they often have in common to use of digital technology resources (or ICTs, information and communication technologies). The degree of integration of ICTs in the urban functions is sometimes even considered as the criterion that marks out smart cities from other cities.