VOROUR
SMART CITIES
What are they?
6000+
Years People have been facing the same problems: crime, food supply, shelter, sanitation, emergency aid, to more recent problems of traffic management, the electrical grid, telecommunications, pollution, maintenance of public facilities & much more. (NatGeo)
"Smart cities are urban ecosystems that utilize advanced technologies and innovative solutions to enhance the quality of life of their inhabitants while improving the efficiency of urban services" (MDPI)
What it means?
THE FUTURE
of Smart Cities was discussed during an Ai APPG evidence session at at the Houses of Parliament, led by a Leading UK think tank The Big Innovation Centre.
"Drone services can provide flexible fast information while significantly reducing labour costs, energy costs, & our time" - David Elcombe, Managing Director of WindWorkX & Vorour
Smart City Tech is driven by "sustainability challenges". If we can employ smart technology & Ai properly, we can expect "30-40% energy efficiency gains" - Will Cavendish, Arup Global Digital Services Leader
We have to act with "Human Intelligence" before automating, & demand "equitable urbanisation" of digital infrastructure. - Courtney Holm, Capegemini VP of Sustainable Futures
How do we achieve this?
DRONES
are proving to be the perfect smart city technology. With many projects seeing great success globally across a variety of industries.
Drone-a-box solutions are suggested to improve life saving emergency response times to opioid overdose cases. "In 78% of cases commercial-off-the-shelf drones carrying naloxone could have reached the overdose location in seven minutes – the benchmark time for the arrival of emergency services for Category 1 calls in England. Ambulances were able to reach 14% of cases in in this time, even when factoring in best-case scenario traffic conditions." (Kings College London)
The time to get smart is now!
