by Danielle Roth-Avneri
Local startups and global corporations will work together at Tel Aviv's CityZone "smart city" test site and explore solutions in the fields of automatic transportation, education, community services, sanitation hazards and more.
An automatic car by Renault
Photo: Bertrand Le Pluard
Tel Aviv will
officially launch its new CityZone "smart city" pilot near Tel Aviv
University and in Park Atidim on Friday. The process to select startup
companies to participate in the program has begun in recent days. The
startups will be asked to recommend solutions for municipal challenges
in the fields of transportation, security, education, community and
sanitation hazards.
Smart-city planners face a broad range of
challenges, from providing independence and mobility for elderly
residents to identifying criminal offenders automatically and in real
time – for example, perfecting the ability to identify litterers or
people involved in physical altercations throughout the city.
In an age where self-driving cars have been
tabbed as the next great technological revolution, one of the important
challenges for the smart city is to provide suitable infrastructure.
Within the framework of the CityZone
project, the Tel Aviv municipality has turned Park Atidim, north of Tel
Aviv, into its primary test site for a functional smart city and urban
technologies. The goal of the test site is to connect residents, local
authorities, large international corporations and young startups to
advance solutions for urban challenges. Global companies partaking in
the project will have access to the test site for research and
development purposes and to run simulations, along with the right to
"adopt" local startups and work with them to develop groundbreaking
technologies.
Kiryat Atidim CEO Sagi Niv told Israel
Hayom: "Our innovation platforms are committed to giving corporations
and startups in the field of smart cities the necessary resources for
developing their technologies."
Antoine Basseville, director of
Renault-Nissan-Mitsubishi's Innovation Lab in Israel said, "We recently
started working with Israeli startups on establishing technological
feasibility and building a prototype for a smart city."
Danielle Roth-Avneri
Source: http://www.israelhayom.com/2018/11/16/israel-launches-smart-city-initiative-in-tel-aviv/
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