UNICITI — Mauritius ‘Smart City’
But the security benefits are simply a very
useful
by-product
ultimate
goal:
to
of
smart
build
an
technology’s
enormous,
interconnected grid of information that can
be gathered, processed and interpreted, and
then applied to make the system run more
smoothly.
Internationally, this has been the underlying
intention of smart cities (on a large scale),
smart homes (on a small scale) and – on the
level that we’re particularly interested in –
smart residential estates.
In Spain, for example, public multinational
electric utility company Iberdrola’s electricity
distribution brand i-DE – which already has
a network of more than 11 million connection
points – has three focus areas: service
improvement, caring for the environment,
and the transition towards renewable energy.
Again, security is the by-product, not the goal.
‘The transformation of the networks into a
smart infrastructure that is safer and more
Security drone
reliable is putting consumers at the centre
of our activity, giving them greater capacity
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