The city protocol society is a worldwide initiative to provide open standards to manage the transformation of cities from non-connected cities to smart cities. Barcelona employs over 40.000 people who keep the city running and in order to manage all these employees they turned to big data. Big data helps Barcelona to improve the quality of live and the development of economic activities. Using mobile and social data, Barcelona is better capable of understanding the needs of the citizen and to act upon it. But that’s not all, they also track all public transportation ranging from busses, metro’s to even bicycles in order to optimize the transportation grid for the citizens.
How Barcelona Deploys Big Data To Improve Lives And Create A Smart City
