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Smart Cities 2030: How Tech is Reshaping Urbanscapes

Over half of the world’s population lives in urban areas. That’s only expected to increase in the years ahead. As the global community strives to meet greenhouse gas emissions targets by 2030, innovative urban infrastructure – across utilities, mobility, manufacturing, and supply chains – is crucial.

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UTILITIES

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UTILITIES

Today

“Digital technology has been supporting utility infrastructure for the last two decades, but more recently we have seen Geographical Information Systems (GIS) support better mapping for planning, design, maintenance and operations performance in real time to improve performance, response times for repairs and downtime in order to minimize costs.”

Aoife Foley
IEEE Senior Member

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UTILITIES

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UTILITIES

2030

“Digital technologies will impact utilities beyond 2030, integrating water, waste, telecommunications, electricity and even heat and gaseous fuels as we transition to net zero in 2050. Smart meters and apps will be optimized in the cloud using IoT platforms to maximize operations and management of food production, manufacturing, energy usage, water and transport across commodities, wholesale and retail markets in a sustainable ‘three pillars’ approach.”

Aoife Foley
IEEE Senior Member

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MOBILITY

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MOBILITY

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“Mobility infrastructures are moving toward electrification, low carbon and intelligence. Rail transportation is nearly 100% electrified in many countries. Public transportation is moving toward more electric vehicles, as are taxi fleets. In Shenzhen, China, 99% of taxis are electric. The number of private electric vehicles is also growing.

Fast charging technology is one of the most important technology developments or trends in the mobility space. If EV charging can be as fast as fuel cars refueling, mileage anxiety will no longer be a barrier limiting the growth of EVs.”

Fushuan Wen
IEEE Fellow

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MOBILITY

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MOBILITY

2030

“Some countries have fixed the targets for electrifying transport by 2030. It is expected that the penetration rate of electric vehicles could be more than 40% by 2030 from a global perspective. Buses, taxis and freight transport are likely to have been fully electrified in some countries or regions by then.

Electric vehicles can significantly contribute to the reduction of greenhouse gasses emissions if charging power is from renewable generation, since the transportation sector contributes a high percentage of carbon dioxide emission in many countries, especially developed countries.”

Fushuan Wen
IEEE Fellow

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MANUFACTURING

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MANUFACTURING

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“The most efficient factories use the industrial IoT for continuous monitoring and control of production. This requires good local connectivity to achieve built-in sensing and automated control of all the factors that go into making a product. This control is increasingly done using various types of artificial intelligence, which may be centralized within the facility or outside, and may have important elements close to where the work is actually done. With digital twins at the factory, manufacturers can simulate changes in equipment and product that result in fewer technical issues and delays in production.”

Tom Coughlin
2024 IEEE President

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MANUFACTURING

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MANUFACTURING

2030

“Manufacturing facilities will implement much more automation, controlled by various types of AI and working in close association with humans – often referred to as cobots, because they are cooperative. Simulations, like digital twins, will be faster and more capable for both product and manufacturing process design, making it easier to implement changes quickly. This will also be aided by increased use of digital reality by those running factory operations and by more built in sensors and monitoring across production. Factories will have implemented sophisticated cybersecurity systems to prevent interruptions in operations, IP theft and other issues which are becoming more common.”

Tom Coughlin
2024 IEEE President

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SUPPLY CHAIN

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SUPPLY CHAIN

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“We’re still in the early days of deploying AI and AR/VR throughout the supply chain, but there are hints of what is to come. The use of RFID and other tagging capabilities allows better visibility on where and when items are in the chain. AI and simulation see a variety of uses, from modeling logistic scenarios to optimization to chatbots (language models) to tracking (computer vision) to customer insights. Use of robotics, driven by AI as well, is literally changing the face of supply chain labor. AR, and to a lesser extent, VR, are making inroads, mostly for providing situational awareness in distribution locations.”

Todd Richmond
IEEE Member

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SUPPLY CHAIN

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SUPPLY CHAIN

2030

“AI will rule the roost, performing a lot of work that is currently done by humans or older technology capabilities. One power of AI is the ability to create and test a massive number of possible solutions in a variety of supply chain locations and situations. Combining various AI approaches with IoT and broader mesh networks will enable a massive data pipeline along with the algorithms to parse and provide sense making and insight. The ability for AI and simulation to explore efficiencies will greatly improve sustainability to lowering both environmental impact and costs.”

Todd Richmond
IEEE Member

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