Friday, March 25, 2011

So the city is connected to Microsoft and the Portuguese Government plans to build near Oporto

1,600 hectares of buildings connected and updateable online government infrastructure and a new concept called urban operating system (UOS). It is not science fiction, but the details surrounding PlanIT, the city project that the Government attached Luso is launching Microsoft's hand. PlanIT began in the imagination of Steve Lewis, a former Microsoft executive who heads the project and, in fact, has reached an agreement with the Redmond company to be they who create the software environment on which cloud will develop all city services.

The use of new technologies will begin during the same construction of the city. Lewis maintains that 30% of construction resources are lost due to failures in the supply chain. To avoid this, PlanIT be built using the same methods of construction ultraplanificados used in the aerospace industry.

Once implemented, the city will be connected to a network of sensors connected to tag that will be managed by all services, from emergencies to manufacture and supply. Every inhabitant of the city will have a virtual identity, an avatar to be linked to his physical. In the absence of standardized protocols to connect the vast number of machines and devices in the city, PlanIT will use technology developed by McLaren Electronic Systems has already been tested in Formula 1.

Unresolved, yes, the problems that will come to the privacy and security. Despite the recent economic wallop peninsular neighbors, the Portuguese government has risen to PlanIT to 'project of national importance', which, so far, and it will be worth substantial tax breaks and all legal support and admisnisrtativo possible.

Portuguese project joins other cities connected The site chosen for the construction of PlanIT is the municipality of Paredes, near Oporto. Build the first city connected to the mainland will cost a whopping 10,000 million euros. It is estimated that the project will take four years to complete and at completion, the city can accommodate 225,000 people.

Via | The Wall Street Journal

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