New York And Barcelona Case

1. What technologies are New York and Barcelona employing to run their cities more efficiently and improve citizens’ quality of life? The New York City government uses the big data which collects from 311 program and wireless sensors to find the way to reduce the noise population. They made a noise limit ordinance for vehicles. The government also analyze the data to make the garbage collection become more efficient. The model they created helps the government to identify more hazardous dwelling. The data sifting program makes health department easily to locate the unscrupulous restaurants which illegally dump cooking oil into sewers. In the Barcelona, the government uses sensors to make sure when workers need to clean the trash can. …show more content…
And improving the efficiency of working process in the city management is more difficult. The “smart city” systems analyze huge number of data. And working with the results could help city’ managers make better decisions. At the same time, the decisions could help to improve the working processes. In this case, both New York and Barcelona get the benefits from “smart city” programs. They improved the environment protection, energy using, and public life. However, many people also worry about the public information security and the overuse of privacy information. That is the drawback of the “smart …show more content…
If the government could not keep information safety, the privacy information would easily be violated. Therefore, the government should focus on information security issues. At the same time, the government also needs to develop a system to identify the privacy information. That means the system should be able to differentiate which information is valuable and what information should be record. For example, if some video records violate others’ privacy, the system should be able to remove it. Similarly, the system should be able to differentiate which one is able to