Business Chief USA September 2019

SUSTAINABILITY
“MODULAR SENSOR
BOXES THAT WILL BE
INSTALLED AROUND
CHICAGO TO COLLECT
REAL-TIME DATA ON THE
CITY’S ENVIRONMENT”
—
Marga Hoek,
Non Executive Director and author
of The Trillion Dollar Shift
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CAMBRIDGE, US
The city of the future will combine sustainable
initiatives with the use of ICT
and advanced technologies. Around
the 1990s, as the digital revolution
came up to speed, it was often assumed
digitalisation would mean the
death of cities but the opposite is the
case. Smart, intelligent cities, that have
sustainability at the heart of development,
are considered to be a great
place to live. Digital innovations can
thrive, although they still have too little
scale around the world. A great example
is to be found in Cambridge, Massachusetts,
which we can describe
as an internet of pipes. A team of MIT
researchers have developed a system
Chicago’s Cloud Gate
SEPTEMBER 2019