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Future of Smart Cities - Part 1

Por Peter Diamandis 

Each week alone, an estimated 1.3 million people move into cities, driving urbanization on an unstoppable scale.

By 2040, about two-thirds of the world’s population will be concentrated in urban centers. Over the decades ahead, 90 percent of this urban population growth is predicted to flourish across Asia and Africa.

Already, 1,000 smart city pilots are under construction or in their final urban planning stages across the globe, driving forward countless visions of the future.

As data becomes the gold of the 21st century, centralized databases and hyper-connected infrastructures will enable everything from sentient cities that respond to data inputs in real time, to smart public services that revolutionize modern governance.

Connecting countless industries — real estate, energy, sensors and networks, transportation, among others — tomorrow’s cities pose no end of creative possibilities and stand to completely transform the human experience.

In this blog, we’ll be taking a high-level tour of today’s cutting-edge urban enterprises involved in these three areas:

1. Hyperconnected urban ecosystems that respond to your data
2. Smart infrastructure and construction
3. Self-charging green cities

Let’s dive in!

Smart Cities that Interact with Your Data

Any discussion of smart cities must also involve today’s most indispensable asset: data.

As 5G connection speeds, IoT-linked devices and sophisticated city AIs give birth to trillion-sensor economies, low latencies will soon allow vehicles to talk to each other and infrastructure systems to self-correct.

Even public transit may soon validate your identity with a mere glance in any direction, using facial recognition to charge you for individualized travel packages and distances.

As explained by Deloitte Public Sector Leader Clare Ma, “real-time information serves as the ‘eye’ for urban administration.”

In most cities today, data is fragmented across corporations, SMEs, public institutions, nonprofits, and personal databases, with little standardization.

Yet to identify and respond to urban trends, we need a way of aggregating multiple layers of data, spanning traffic flows, human movement, individual transactions, shifts in energy usage, security activity, and almost any major component of contemporary economies.

Only through real-time analysis of information flows can we leverage exponential technologies to automate public services, streamlined transit, smarter security, optimized urban planning and responsive infrastructure.

And already, cutting-edge cities across the globe are building centralized data platforms to combine different standards and extract actionable insights, from smart parking to waste management. 

Take China’s Nanjing, for instance. 

With sensors installed in 10,000 taxis, 7,000 buses and over 1 million private vehicles, the city aggregates daily data across both physical and virtual networks. After transmitting it to the Nanjing Information Center, experts can then analyze traffic data, send smartphone updates to commuters and ultimately create new traffic routes.

Replacing the need for capital-intensive road and public transit reconstruction, real-time data from physical transit networks allow governments to maximize value of preexisting assets, saving time and increasing productivity across millions of citizens.

But beyond traffic routing, proliferating sensors and urban IoT are giving rise to real-time monitoring of any infrastructural system.

Italy’s major rail operator Trenitalia has now installed sensors on all its trains, deriving real-time status updates on each train’s mechanical condition. Now capable of calculating maintenance predictions in advance of system failure, transit disruptions are becoming a thing of the past. 

Los Angeles has embedded sensors in 4,500 miles worth of new LEDs (replacing previous streetlights). The minute one street bulb malfunctions or runs low, it can be fixed near-immediately, forming part of a proactive city model that detects glitches before they occur.

And Hangzhou, home to e-commerce giant Alibaba, has now launched a “City Brain” project, aiming to build out one of the most data-responsive cities on the planet.

With cameras and other sensors installed across the entire city, a centralized AI hub processes data on everything from road conditions to weather data to vehicular collisions and citizen health emergencies.

Overseeing a population of nearly 8 million residents, Hangzhou’s City Brain then manages traffic signals at 128 intersections (coordinating over 1,000 road signals simultaneously), tracks ambulances en-route and clears their paths to hospitals without risk of collision, directs traffic police to accidents at record rates, and even assists city officials in expedited decision-making. No more wasting time at a red light when there is obviously no cross traffic or pedestrians.

Already, the City Brain has cut ambulance and commuter traveling times by half. And as reported by China’s first AI-partnered traffic policeman Zheng Yijiong, “the City Brain can detect accidents within a second” allowing police to “arrive at [any] site [within] 5 minutes” across an urban area of over 3,000 square miles.

But beyond oversight of roads, traffic flows, collisions and the like, converging sensors and AI are now being used to monitor crowds and analyze human movement.

Companies like SenseTime now offer software to police bureaus that can not only identify live faces, individual gaits and car license plates, but even monitor crowd movement and detect unsafe pedestrian concentrations.

Some researchers have even posited the use of machine learning to predict population-level disease spread through crowd surveillance data, building actionable analyses from social media data, mass geolocation and urban sensors.

Yet aside from self-monitoring cities and urban AI ‘brains,’ what if infrastructure could heal itself on-demand. Forget sensors, connectivity and AI — enter materials science.

Self-Healing Infrastructure 

The U.S. Department of Transportation estimates a $542.6 billion backlog needed for U.S. infrastructure repairs alone.

And as I’ve often said, the world’s most expensive problems are the world’s most profitable opportunities.

Enter self-healing construction materials.

First up, concrete.

In an effort to multiply the longevity of bridges, roads, and any number of infrastructural fortifications, engineers at Delft University have developed a prototype of bio-concrete that can repair its own cracks.

Mixed in with calcium lactate, the key ingredients of this novel ‘bio-concrete’ are minute capsules of limestone-producing bacteria distributed throughout any concrete structure. Only when the concrete cracks, letting in air and moisture, does the bacteria awaken.

Like clockwork, the bacteria begins feeding on surrounding calcium lactate as it produces a natural limestone sealant that can fill cracks in a mere three weeks — long before small crevices can even threaten structural integrity.

As head researcher Henk Jonkers explains, “What makes this limestone-producing bacteria so special is that they are able to survive in concrete for more than 200 years and come into play when the concrete is damaged. […] If cracks appear as a result of pressure on the concrete, the concrete will heal these cracks itself.”

Yet other researchers have sought to crack the code (no pun intended) of living concrete, testing everything from hydrogels that expand 10X or even 100X their original size when in contact with moisture, to fungal spores that grow and precipitate calcium carbonate the minute micro-cracks appear.

But bio-concrete is only the beginning of self-healing technologies. 

As futurist architecture firms start printing plastic and carbon-fiber houses, engineers are tackling self-healing plastic that could change the game with economies of scale. 

Plastic not only holds promise in real estate on Earth; it will also serve as a handy material in space. NASA engineers have pioneered a self-healing plastic that may prove vital in space missions, preventing habitat and ship ruptures in record speed. 

The implications of self-healing materials are staggering, offering us resilient structures both on earth and in space.

One additional breakthrough worth noting involves the magic of graphene.

Perhaps among the greatest physics discoveries of the century, graphene is composed of a 2D honeycomb lattice over 200X stronger than steel, yet remains an ultra-thin one atom thick. 

While yet to come down in cost, graphene unlocks an unprecedented host of possibilities, from weather-resistant and ultra-strong coatings for existing infrastructure, to multiplied infrastructural lifespans. Some have even posited graphene’s use in the construction of 30 km tall buildings.

And it doesn’t end there.

As biomaterials and novel polymers will soon allow future infrastructure to heal on its own, nano- and micro-materials are ushering in a new era of smart, super-strong and self-charging buildings.

Revolutionizing structural flexibility, carbon nanotubes are already dramatically increasing the strength-to-weight ratio of skyscrapers. 

But imagine if we could engineer buildings that could charge themselves… or better yet, produce energy for entire cities, seamlessly feeding energy to the grid.

Self-Powering Cities

As exponential technologies across energy and water burst onto the scene, self-charging cities are becoming today’s testing ground for a slew of green infrastructure pilots, promising a future of self-sufficient societies.

In line with new materials, one hot pursuit surrounds the creation of commercializable solar power-generating windows. 

In the past several years, several research teams have pioneered silicon nanoparticles to capture everyday light flowing through our windows. Little solar cells at the edges of windows then harvest this energy for ready use. 

Scientists at Michigan State, for instance, have developed novel “solar concentrators.” Capable of being layered over any window, these solar concentrators leverage non-visible wavelengths of light — near infrared and ultraviolet — pushing them to those solar cells embedded at the edge of each window panel.

Rendered entirely invisible, such solar cells could generate energy on almost any sun-facing screen, from electronic gadgets to glass patio doors to reflective skyscrapers. 

And beyond self-charging windows, countless future city pilots have staked ambitious goals for solar panel farms and renewable energy targets.

Take Dubai’s “Strategic Plan 2021,” for instance.

Touting a multi-decade Dubai Clean Energy Strategy 2050, launched by UAE Prime Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum in 2015, Dubai aims to gradually derive 75 percent of its energy from clean sources by 2050.

With plans to launch the largest single-site solar project on the planet by 2030, boasting a projected capacity of 5,000 megawatts, Dubai further aims to derive 25 percent of its energy needs from solar power in the next decade.

And in the city’s “Strategic Plan 2021,” Dubai aims to soon:

• 3D-print 25 percent of its buildings;
• Make 25 percent of transit automated and driverless;
• Install hundreds of artificial “trees,” all leveraging solar power and providing the city with free WiFi, info-mapping screens, and charging ports;
• Integrate passenger drones capable of carrying individuals to public transit systems;
• And drive forward countless designs of everything from underwater bio-desalination plants to smart meters and grids.

A global leader in green technologies and renewable energy, Dubai stands as a gleaming example that any environmental context can give rise to thriving and self-sufficient eco-powerhouses. 

This is one of the reasons on March 26 & 27th, 2019 I’m holding a 2-day Abundance360 program with the leadership and CEOs of Dubai and the region. Find info here if you’re interested.

But Dubai is not alone, and others are quickly following suit.

Leading the pack of China’s 500 smart city pilots, Xiong’an New Area (near Beijing) aims to become a thriving economic zone powered by 100 percent clean electricity. 

And just as of this December, 100 U.S. cities are committed and on their way to the same goal.

Cities as Living Organisms

As new materials forge ahead to create pliable and self-healing structures, green infrastructure technologies are exploding into a competitive marketplace.

Aided by plummeting costs, future cities will soon surround us with self-charging buildings, green city ecosystems, and urban residences that generate far more than they consume.

And as 5G communications networks, proliferating sensors and centralized AI hubs monitor and analyze every aspect of our urban environments, cities are fast becoming intelligent organisms, capable of seeing and responding to our data in real time.

In our next installation on the future of cities, I’ll be exploring smart services and responsive urban governance, a new digital layer enabled by the Spatial Web, and the rise of mega- and micro-cities alike.

Join Me

(1) A360 Executive Mastermind: This is one of the key conversations I’ll be exploring at my Executive Mastermind group called Abundance 360. The program is highly selective, for 360 abundance- and exponentially minded CEOs (running $10M to $50B companies). If you’d like to be considered, apply here.

Share this with your friends, especially if they are interested in any of the areas outlined above. 

(2) A360 Dubai: Join me in Dubai, the City of the Future, for the inaugural Abundance 360 Dubai Summit on March 26 - 27, 2019. Hosted by the Dubai Future Foundation and the Crown Prince of Dubai, this two-day experience offers exponential leaders an immersive look into how technology will transform every industry. Read more about the program and apply here to join.

(3) Abundance-Digital Online Community: I’ve also created a Digital/Online community of bold, abundance-minded entrepreneurs called Abundance-Digital. Abundance-Digital is my ‘onramp’ for exponential entrepreneurs – those who want to get involved and play at a higher level. 

Harvard Business School Network Marketing

Harvard Business School Network Marketing.


Network Marketing is being taught in more than 200 colleges including Harvard Business School. After extensive research into the network marketing industry, Harvard Business School developed three criteria that a network marketing company must meet in order to make it a most desirable opportunity.

They are:
1. The company should be at least 18 months old, as 90% of all network marketing companies that fail do so in the first 18 months.

2. The company should have a product which is unique and highly consumable, unique in this case means that you have an exclusive product that can only be purchased from your company’s distributors. Having a product that is highly consumable means repeated sales, thereby guaranteeing customers loyalty versus a one time sale and having to locate new customers.

3. It needs to be a "ground floor" opportunity. Harvard Business School suggests that in order for the opportunity to qualify as "ground floor" the number of existing active distributors should be less than ½ of 1% of the population (300 million in the United States) in the country where this network marketing company exists. In the United States this figure is equal to 1.5 million people. Harvard Business School also stated that if there were less than 500,000 people involved, you would be on the cutting edge of a great opportunity. If the company has less than 100,000 distributors, Harvard Business School considers it to be a once in a lifetime opportunity.

There are four states of growth in a network marketing company:

Foundation:
This usually lasts 6 months. This is the period when a company develops its product and marketing plan.
Concentration:
This period lasts from 2 to 4 years when distributor network is started.
Momentum:
This period lasts 2 to 4 years also. This is when the company experiences phenomenal growth. Both retail and distributorship explode in terms of expanding growth. It is during this period that a company virtually sweeps across the nation.

When a company’s sales reach $50 million annually, they reach what is called "critical mass", (sales go vertical right off the graph). Also, approximately 2/3 of the company’s growth of new distributors occurs during this period. When "Herbalife" reached 50 million in retail sales, they jumped to 151 million in retail sales in only 12 months. They also added over 800,000 to their organization.

Let us assume you have an organization which is producing an override bonus check to you of $1,000 per month. When the company reaches "critical mass", distributors automatically experience a ten fold increase in their earnings. In other words, $1,000 per month becomes $10,000 per month. This is the reason for getting involved on the "ground floor" so you will experience the benefits of explosion growth.

Stability:
This period lasts for the life of the company. A network marketing company that is dedicated to the success of its distributors will experience longevity, thereby ensuring that an active distributor will realize continued earnings and growth.

Expo Pymes Ciudad de México 2014

El Gobierno del Distrito Federal inauguró la Expo Pymes Ciudad de México 2014, Empresas Creativas,

Durante la inauguración celebrada en el Auditorio del World Trade Center, el secretario de Desarrollo Económico (Sedeco), Salomón Chertorivski Woldenberg, recordó el papel importante que juegan las empresas creativas en la Ciudad de México, industria que genera 125 mil millones de pesos al año y más de 300 mil empleos directos.

“En la Ciudad de México pensamos que tenemos que ir especializándonos y generando foros para los diferentes nichos y sectores de oportunidades. En particular, este sector de las empresas creativas representa un potencial para nuestra ciudad”, dijo.

Manifestó que “Expo Pymes es un evento de la economía de la cultura, de cómo pasamos de la inventiva, de la creatividad, a la generación de riqueza; cómo pasamos de que un artista, diseñador o bailarín -a partir de su arte- puedan generar un negocio y con ello generar valor agregado y generar riqueza”.

Agregó que “el resultado de estos trabajos permitirá construir una política de la economía de la cultura, además de que se busca que la Ciudad de México se convierta en la capital de la industria creativa en América Latina”.

Por su parte, Enrique Jacob Rocha, presidente del Instituto Nacional del Emprendedor (Inadem), señaló que “las industrias creativas se consolidan como un componente cada vez más importante de la economía basada en el conocimiento. El sector creativo es un catalizador de innovación y nuestro país tiene un gran potencial para convertirse en líder mundial en las industrias creativas”.

“Somos líderes en Latinoamérica, el sexto exportador de videojuegos, software, animación y contenido visual y el más importante exportador de bienes creativos en español. Por ello, todo lo que se pueda hacer alrededor de esta industria significa la posibilidad de posicionar a nuestro país en el mundo de la creatividad, pero también la posibilidad de utilizar su talento y creatividad para el desarrollo económico de la Ciudad de México”, abundó.

En su participación, Carlos Barrón Noé, presidente de la Asociación Mexicana de Filmadoras, sostuvo que si las industrias creativas fueran un país, representarían la cuarta economía del mundo.

Con la participación de 220 expositores, Expo Pymes Ciudad de México 2014, Empresas Creativas se llevará a cabo el 29, 30 de septiembre y 1 de octubre, en el World Trade Center. La entrada es libre y para más información está la página de Internet www.sedecodf.gob.mx.

En la inauguración estuvieron presentes los directores generales del Fondo Mixto de Promoción Turística del Distrito Federal y de Calidad de Vida, Armando López Cárdenas y Simón Levy, respectivamente; y las directoras de la Comisión de Filmaciones de esta ciudad, Leyla Méndez de la Paz Pérez; y de Contempodanza, Cecilia Lugo.
dirigida a los sectores de la publicidad, gastronomía, arquitectura, actuación, música, televisión, radio, arte, artesanías, diseño, moda, cine, video, edición, software, entretenimiento y servicios de computación.

Connect 2014 Smart Cities

Los expertos se reunirán para discutir la importancia de la geotécnia en la gestión de los municipios
El concepto de Ciudades Inteligentes ( Smart Cities ) o es la última innovación tecnológica discutido en diversos foros internacionales que abordan el tema de la sostenibilidad para las ciudades del futuro. ¿Pero cuáles son las Smart Cities y cuáles son los beneficios esperados de este concepto innovador?
Este tema será discutido en la próxima edición del MundoGEO #Connect LatinAmerica , Conferencia y Feria de Geomática y soluciones geoespaciales, se llevará a cabo del 7 al 9 mayo de 2014, en el Convention Center Frei Caneca, en São Paulo (SP ). En total serán 36 cursos , seminarios, eventos especiales y reuniones profesionales , que tienen lugar durante cuatro días - incluyendo pre-evento, el 6 de mayo.
Este año, la conferencia contará con siete en todos los seminarios en diferentes formas y usos de la información geoespacial. "Los temas más solicitados por la comunidad de la geoinformación fueron recolectados a través de encuestas. Cada seminario tendrá una duración de un día entero, y contará con conferencias y debates sobre innovaciones tecnológicas , además del intercambio de experiencias para los usuarios" , dijo Emerson Granemann, director de MundoGEO, evento de la empresa organizadora .
El Seminario de Geoinformación de Municipios reunirá a varios expertos para discutir el uso de geo -tecnologías para la gestión de las ciudades más inteligentes y sostenibles . Los representantes de las empresas e instituciones estarán presentes para compartir experiencias, proyectos y estudios de casos llevados a cabo en ciudades de Brasil y otros países.
Para más información e inscripciones, por favor visite la Geoinformación Seminario para Municipios. Las plazas son limitadas !
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