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Terrassa invest on remote reading of water meters
The Terrassa City Council is on the path towards the digital city, investing in the digital transformation of the services offered, to ensure a higher quality of these services and Read more…
Smart energy
Terrassa improves energy savings and sustainability thanks to street lighting renovation
One of the major goals of the Terrassa Energía Inteligente (TEI) project, promoted by the city council in recent years, has been to promote energy savings and the reduction of CO₂ emissions in the atmosphere through, among other measures, the renovation of public lighting. This great challenge, which has now been completed, involved updating the approximately 29,000 streetlights in Terrassa. Challenge achieved.
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Terrassa allies with the sun to gain in sustainability
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.
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The Terrassa IoT Network helps to improve people’s lives
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 Read more…
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Having the Historical Archive digitized also means being a Smart City
By definition, a smart city is one that is economically, socially and environmentally sustainable. Another level that could be added is that of cultural sustainability because the societies that share Read more…
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Smart Cities need Smart Building
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 Read more…
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City, resilience and Technology
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 Read more…
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Terrassa has been chosen to be part of the “Intelligent Cities Challenge” (ICC) network, composed of almost 100 intelligent cities, and promoted by the European Commission.
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 Read more…
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Technology at the service of mobility and quality of life of citizens
In many Catalan cities, changes are being made in the internal mobility of the City to improve environmental and acoustic quality. A well-known example for everyone is the creation of Read more…
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Sample of a study of decibels: Terrassa Jazz Festival
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 Read more…