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n general, renewable energies, including photovoltaics, are developing at a much faster rate than experts estimate. This is partly due to cost reductions, which make energies such as photovoltaics, in addition to contributing to the fight against climate change, also economically competitive.

Currently, the Internet of Things (IoT) applied to cities has become one of the most important and useful technologies for Smart Cities, due to the numerous applications it offers.   In general terms, the use of the IoT technology is able to improve urban management in qualitative ways and in different Read more

A Smart City project is much more than a technology project. In fact, it hides behind a city plan with the aim of improving the lives of its inhabitants in various areas such as improving services, efficiency in the use of resources, security, mobility or welfare, among others. Progressing in these areas, after Read more

COVID-19 has shown that urban areas have become the battlefront because of their high concentration of inhabitants and interrelationships between them. These two factors have made cities particularly vulnerable to this pandemic.  In this scenario, it is necessary to respond to the crisis in an appropriate way in order to Read more

The objective of the network is to endorse advanced technologies aimed at achieving green, intelligent, and sustainable growth that contributes to improving citizenship’s quality of life.  Terrassa is one of the 88 cities, from 192 all over Europe, that have been chosen in a first round of selection to be Read more

In the previous articles of “Noise pollution and health” (link) and in the article “How can measure the noise” some definitions were introduced and how noise is measured. If we make a brief reminder, it was commented that the measuring devices that currently exist detect noise accumulated in a certain time Read more

In the previous article “Acoustic pollution and Health” we defined what was sound, noise, what we understood as noise pollution and its repercussion on health. These definitions were important to enter into context and to develop this article. But first of all, we must differentiate that it is a noise emitter Read more