Smart & Sustainable Cities

It is estimated that 60-70% of the world’s population will be living in urban areas by the year 2030. This research encompasses a multitude of areas including energy management, sharing and sustainability, and utilises new and emerging technologies including sensor and wireless communications to gather information about the way cities operates.

Smart Cities has a technological framework that provides access to large scale urban data, which can then be utilised by businesses in new and emerging markets. This research focuses on the everyday citizen building an alternative future for their city, and builds on the concept of Trinity as a micro-city, as a reference point for the cities of the future.

The breadth of research across Trinity College can be combined to support a vision for a happy, green and cost-effective city, where we address the required optimisation of resources, harness the growth potential for business, reduce the city’s environmental impact, and improve citizens’ quality of life within urban environments. In Trinity, work on infrastructure is complemented by monitoring techniques that support the prediction and analysis of data relating to city resources (e.g., air, energy, water and transport) and citizen behaviour (e.g., commuting, working, shopping, and leisure).