{"id":14090,"date":"2021-06-24T17:23:34","date_gmt":"2021-06-24T14:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ufuture.com\/?p=14090"},"modified":"2021-06-24T17:23:34","modified_gmt":"2021-06-24T14:23:34","slug":"sitowise-how-a-finnish-company-makes-cities-smart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ufuture.com\/en\/sitowise-how-a-finnish-company-makes-cities-smart\/","title":{"rendered":"Sitowise: how a Finnish company makes cities \u201csmart\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Smart cities, as a concept, appeared more than 20 years ago. This concept combines technologies that make the urban environment more functional and efficient.<\/p>\n<p>The development of smart cities peaked in <a href=\"https:\/\/citymonitor.ai\/government\/why-youll-be-hearing-a-lot-less-about-smart-cities\">2011-2019<\/a>: 379 such projects were launched worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>Revenues of companies that provide engineering solutions, technologies, products, and services for smart cities are <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statista.com\/statistics\/1111626\/worldwide-smart-city-market-revenue\/#statisticContainer\">projected to<\/a> reach $129 billion in 2021. This is the revenue they receive by offering solutions to improve urban environments through innovative technologies. The Finnish company <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sitowise.com\/\">Sitowise<\/a> is one of them.<\/p>\n<h3>What does it do:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>designs buildings;<\/li>\n<li>develops infrastructure designs;<\/li>\n<li>offers digital solutions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What exactly are digital solutions:<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>smart data management for the built environment, transport infrastructure, and urban development project;<\/li>\n<li>the mobility revolution: intelligent transport, MaaS, traffic data, and public transport planning;<\/li>\n<li>virtual environments, building information modeling, and VR;<\/li>\n<li>telecommunications consulting, 5G consultation, and smart infrastructure.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Projects<\/h3>\n<p>The company has created an interactive digital twin of the Finnish port of Oulu, which will provide port operators with up-to-date information and a visual picture of the current situation in the port. The most important option of the digital twin is to bring together the activities of different operators in one place, to share relevant information about the port&#8217;s operation throughout the ecosystem, for example, with pilot and security services, authorities and companies throughout the logistics chain.<\/p>\n<p>The company&#8217;s experts deploy and maintain the road data systems of The Finnish Transport Infrastructure Agency.<\/p>\n<p>Sitowise also thinks about the future. As climate change is expected to lead to more rains and torrential downpours, Sitowise designs solutions for the availability of clean raw water, the prevention of environmental contamination, and the renovation of old water pipeline and sewerage networks.<\/p>\n<p>The company&#8217;s operations are based on the famous Nordic sustainability. According to Sitowise, they prevent problems and complaints before they appear and create the most \u201csmooth\u201d experience:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Smart cities, as a concept, appeared more than 20 years ago. This concept combines technologies that make the urban environment&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"single-new.php","format":"chat","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14090"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14090"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ufuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14091,"href":"https:\/\/ufuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14090\/revisions\/14091"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ufuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ufuture.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}