One Of The Most Important Features Of Smart Cities Is Optimizing Energy Consumption And Focusing On Clean And Renewable Energy. 

Today, we all know that the excessive consumption of groundwater aquifers has caused us to witness various problems such as land subsidence in different cities. Suddenly pits several tens of meters deep and several meters wide appear in the deserts and residential cities and devour everything.

Accordingly, it is important to use new and intelligent technologies to overcome the problem of uncontrolled water and electricity consumption so that water resources will remain for future generations and global warming will not increase further.

Powerful technological advances in the last 100 years

In many parts of the world, rapid industrialization and population growth have led to water shortages. Freshwater is projected to decline dramatically by 2050 due to additional tensions and stresses caused by climate change.

In the meantime, freshwater scarcity has led to investments in desalination technology, water reclamation, and closed-loop environmental systems. This will be especially evident in how architecture is combined with the ecosystem (meaning “archeology”) to ensure greater sustainability in the urban space. Technology has come a long way in the last century.

Nowadays, big and not-so-attractive computers are no longer the basic phones of a few kilograms, and the old rugged technologies have given way to smartphones and slim tablets. Meanwhile, artificial intelligence and 5G internet have also increased communication and computing power.

Greece is a good example of the application of technology in the field of water supply.

The island of Crete, Greece’s largest olive trade, has long put the process of smartening farms on the agenda. Researchers use sensors and the Internet of Things to manage 85 percent of Crete’s agricultural water.

An approach that officials say has prevented water wastage. “We have succeeded in installing sensors in the field of agriculture that measure soil moisture and electrical conductivity,” said Levaniz Daliakopoulos, a research engineer at the Greek University of the Mediterranean.

In addition, we measure salinity, soil moisture, and temperature every 15 minutes. “This information is transmitted to a central base, and we can estimate the right amount of water for irrigation.”

Farmers access the data remotely this way and control the irrigation with the touch of a button.

“We are saving many freshwaters,” said Tranciolos Manios, vice president of the Greek University of the Mediterranean. Like scientists and researchers, farmers need to know exactly what the Internet of Things is because there is so much we can do with this new tool.

“They can do the same thing with this tool for chemical fertilization, spraying, soil, and plant protection.” These measures help the environment and increase traceability, as consumers are increasingly interested in learning more about food production.

There are currently about 30 million large olive trees on the island of Crete, some of which are 500 years old. The industry dates back to previous generations. Therefore, researchers are looking for solutions so that olive grower can make the best use of advanced technologies.

In this research sample, the olive grove in the village of Arhans has been owned by the Yannis family for 3 centuries.

The main problem here is that some farmers have to be persuaded to use technology. “In recent years, we have been facing the problem of climate change,” says Yannis Geniatakis, owner of the Olive Orchards.

And Technology has always helped us and solved problems. 

“Technology is constantly improving research to overcome the problems we now face.” “In recent years, we have been facing the problem of climate change,” says Yannis Geniatakis, owner of the Olive Orchards.

And Technology has always helped us and solved problems.

“Technology is constantly improving research to overcome the problems we now face.” “In recent years, we have been facing the problem of climate change,” says Yannis Geniatakis, owner of the Olive Orchards.

And Technology has always helped us and solved problems.

“Technology is constantly improving research to overcome the problems we now face.”

Future Intelligence Company provides technologies for research on the island of Crete. The technology vision for farmers looks beyond farmers and producers. “We get data from a lot of different devices, such as transportation, retail, and agri-food,” says Harris Moisiadis, business designer at Future Intelligence.

“Artificial intelligence is an umbrella under which all the data processing steps are performed and optimize the whole value chain.”

Internet connection plays a key role in connecting all this data.

“Huawei has been active in Europe for 20 years,” said Angeliki Didopolo, EU policy expert on artificial intelligence at Huawei. We work closely with small and medium-sized enterprises, which are, in fact, the foundation of the European economy.

“We have provided FiveG Internet to expand important technologies such as artificial intelligence, blockchain, and the Internet of Things related to smart farming.”

Olive growing may remain for generations to come. Still, the island of Crete is now a center of innovation as Europe looks to smarter and more sustainable futures in food production.

Smart cities are pioneers in the application of new technologies.

In another strategic example, the Japanese government intends to build two smart towns in Fujisawa and Kashino. Statistics show that more than half of the world’s population lives in cities, but in Japan, 92% of the population is urban, so these cities must make the best use of advanced technologies. A smart city does not have to be giant.

In Japan, small communities also use state-of-the-art technologies such as the Internet of Things and the sharing economy to be more sustainable. The Fujisawa Smart Town is built on the remains of an old Panasonic factory and now hosts 2,000 citizens. Each house has solar panels and surveillance systems that allow residents to monitor their energy consumption at home and throughout the city.

Citizens are rewarded for behavior that reduces carbon dioxide, and they are encouraged to ride bicycles and share electric cars.

Unlike other cities with modern technology, in this town, priority is given to the citizens. 18 organizations worked together to realize this project. The Japanese urban planners designed Fujisawa for the next hundred years, considering every aspect of citizens’ lives; From energy consumption and transportation to social activities and emergency services.

As the demand for healthy and productive living in the world, especially in China, increased, the Chinese should set the Japanese city of Fujisawa as a successful role model and designed the smart town of Beijing in eastern China based on its urban management model. All the houses in this town were quickly pre-sold in the first phase of construction.

Kashiwa is another Japanese city.

The town’s power grid contains Japan’s largest lithium batteries, and in addition to solar panels, it also uses gas-fired generators to support its energy. This network can provide electricity to the entire city for up to three days in a sudden power outage.

The 2011 earthquake caused power outages and long blackouts in the city, so the city’s power management system was later redesigned, reducing energy consumption by a quarter to a quarter during peak hours.

“Japan is currently building smart cities with a government plan called Community 5. The idea is based on human-centeredness,” said Atsushi Deguchi, director of the Department of Advanced Science at the University of Tokyo.

“The problem is not that the town of Kashivano only benefits from the latest technology, but we want to make it possible for people to build a city where everyone is happy to live.”

Residents can find out more about their smart city and community at the Urban Design Center.

A center is also a gathering place for the town’s shareholders, technical experts, and academics because the Japanese know the secret to the success of the smart city of the future.

The cases mentioned are just two examples of the hundreds of applications of intelligent technologies to optimize energy consumption.