Think Tank meeting on "Smart city & Island of Réunion Island"

Scientific moderator: Prof. Rémy Courdier, University of Réunion Island

Motivation

This think tank is born from the will of the University of Reunion Island to share the state of the art in science and technology on the theme of smart cities and smart grids, and in particular on their prospects for Reunion Island and why not to extend this reflection to the surrounding Mascarene Islands. It also aims to conduct an open reflection on their potential in terms of sustainable development, job creation and the place of citizens in smart cities. Multi-scale modeling of waste management by agent-oriented simulation for energy recovery

Most of the cities and communities of communes in our territory evolve without coordinated planning through a fragmented approach to the management of our territory's assets. As a result, the services offered to the population of Reunion Island may be difficult to connect and configure efficiently across the territory; transportation, energy, water and waste problems may be solved independently. Public and private services may be governed and managed by separate entities, with different incentives and constraints (competitive, technological, legal).

Objectives

• Identify the actors
• Draw up an inventory of the actions carried out by them within their organization
• Understand if a synergy of the actors on this subject is possible
• Identify the subjects that can be worked on collectively
• Address topics such as security, robustness, resilience and standards
• Identify new markets for digital services
• Unlock business opportunities based on data from ubiquitous environments

Work with and identify technology opportunities

Developments in ubiquitous sensing, large-scale modeling, new analytics and optimization techniques, and web services, Internet of Things, and cloud computing technologies offer a whole new wave of opportunities to revolutionize an integrated urban infrastructure, both digital and physical.

New business models and business needs

Stimulating economic growth through the development of cross-sector services cannot happen without the development of new business models.

Encouraging businesses to open up their data and application developers to add value by creating new business opportunities requires appropriate and flexible pricing structures among other interventions to stimulate the creation of the digital city ecosystem.

Last Publications :

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Meetings

• 3 avril 2019, Université de la Réunion/LIM, Enjeux des smart city Compte Rendu en accès privé
• 2 mai 2019, Agorah, Data et smartcity Compte Rendu en accès privé
• 2 juin 2019, Ville de La Possession, Exemple de projet smartcity sur le territoire de la Réunion Compte Rendu en accès privé
• 26 nov 2019, demanSide - infrastructure et objets connectés Compte Rendu en accès privé
• 6 mars 2020, TCO, Schéma Directeur Numérique & Smart City Compte Rendu en accès privé

Think Tank Participants

Training and knowledge transfer actions

Training on smart cities "Technological challenges and societal issues

Training dedicated to professional, civic or political decision-makers concerned by these transformations in the processes of making the city.

• Production : Université Numérique de La Réunion, (Link)
• Participation: Pr Hervé RIVANO, Head of the Inria/INSA Lyon/CITI lab Agora team.
• Scientific Director: Prof. Rémy Courdier

Series of talks "Smart Cities".

Production: Université Numérique de La Réunion UNR, Scientific director : Prof. Rémy Courdier, Collection: "Sciences and Society", Series: "Smart Cities".

Links

• SmartCity Reunion Association (fr)
• Inria/INSA Lyon - CITI lab Agora (fr)
• University of Toulouse - IRIT (fr)
• Imperial College London - Digital City Exchange Programme (en)
• University of Corsica - UMR 6134 SPE (fr)