Smart urban planning
Introduction
The term urbotics comes from the words urbs (which means city in Latin) and tica (from automatic, a word that in Greek means 'that works on its own'). Urbotics is understood as the set of urban public services and facilities that are automated in order to improve energy management, security, well-being, comfort and communications of all users of these public services. It could be defined as the integration of technology in the intelligent design of a city.
It is a relatively new term that began to be used only a couple of years ago when the words home automation and building automation began to become obsolete in their definition due to the new technological solutions that were being proposed for cities in terms of automation.
The application of automation technologies in homes is identified with the term Home Automation, when this technology integrates control
of a set of housing units is called Real Estate. A little over a decade ago, this terminology was extended to systems
of automation that act on cities: that is Urbotics.
Characteristics
La urbótica cumple un papel fundamental en las Smart Cities") (ciudades inteligentes), debido a que se encarga de captar información del medio a través de cámaras y sensores, luego procesar y analizar para tomar decisiones que posteriormente ejecuta las acciones correspondientes, optimizando recursos, con esto aumentando la eficiencia. El campo de acción de la urbótica es bastante amplio y esto se debe a que la composición tan compleja que tienen las ciudades de hoy convierte a cada componente de ciudad en prospecto de ser automatizado o intervenido por la urbótica con miras a llegar to transform the city into a Smart City.
Applications
Currently, the main fields of action of urbotics are:
The following examples can be considered urbotic systems:
Town planning
From urban planning, new technologies have a strong impact on the quality of life of citizens, the so-called "city users", but also on the efficiency of public and private services. All these conditions place cities in more or less advantageous positions on a virtual global map, which causes competitive cities to attract resources, human capital, creativity and drive sociocultural and economic growth.