--- title: SixSq | The Blog | Smart Cities description: Smart Cities | The latest thoughts from the cloud and edge experts --- [![sixsq.png](https://hubspot.sixsq.com/hs-fs/hubfs/sixsq-an-ekinops-company-red-on-transparent-1024px.png?width=1024&height=512&name=sixsq-an-ekinops-company-red-on-transparent-1024px.png "sixsq.png")](https://hubspot.sixsq.com/) - [NUVLA.IO](https://sixsq.com/products-and-services/nuvla-io/overview) - SOFTWARE - [**NUVLABOX:** SOFTWARE THAT TURNS YOUR HARDWARE INTO A SMART EDGE DEVICE](https://sixsq.com/products-and-services/nuvlabox/overview) - [**NUVLA:** THE OPEN SOURCE SOFTWARE BEHIND NUVLA.IO](https://sixsq.com/products-and-services/nuvla/overview) - CASESTUDIES - [**CITY:** EDGE, CLOUD AND IOT SOLUTIONS FOR SMART CITIES](https://sixsq.com/casestudies/city/overview) - [**OUTPOST:** RAPID INFRASTRUCTURE FOR REMOTE AREAS](https://sixsq.com/casestudies/outpost/overview) - [**RETAIL:** IN-STORE (REAL-TIME) ANALYTICS](https://sixsq.com/casestudies/retail/overview) - [**SCIENCE:** BIG DATA AT THE EDGE AND IN THE CLOUD FOR SCIENCE](https://sixsq.com/casestudies/science/overview) - MEDIA - [OVERVIEW](https://sixsq.com/media/overview) - [NEWS](https://sixsq.com/media/news) - [VIDEOS](https://sixsq.com/media/videos) - [BLOG](https://media.sixsq.com/blog) - ABOUT - [ABOUT US](https://sixsq.com/about/about-us) - [CONTACT](https://sixsq.com/about/contact) - [CUSTOMERS](https://sixsq.com/about/customers) - [PARTNERS](https://sixsq.com/about/partners) - [R&D](https://sixsq.com/about/r-and-d) - [JOBS](https://sixsq.com/about/jobs) - [TERMS](https://sixsq.com/about/terms) - [SIGN-IN](https://nuvla.io/ui/sign-in) - [SIGN-UP](https://nuvla.io/ui/sign-up) # Blog ### Subscribe to Email Updates Subscribe Entries related to: smart-cities 17 May 2022 ## [What makes a smart city even smarter? Shared edge infrastructure](https://hubspot.sixsq.com/blog/what-makes-a-smart-city-even-smarter) By [Marc-Elian Bégin](https://hubspot.sixsq.com/blog/author/marc-elian-bégin) Create a future-proof solution for your smart city by implementing a shared infrastructure [Read More](https://hubspot.sixsq.com/blog/what-makes-a-smart-city-even-smarter) 15 January 2021 ## [Governance for smart cities using Edge Computing and Open Data](https://hubspot.sixsq.com/blog/smart-city-governance-for-open-data-and-edge-computing) By [Marc-Elian Bégin](https://hubspot.sixsq.com/blog/author/marc-elian-bégin) Citizens and innovators increasingly demand open data, that anyone can access, use and share, to better understand how the city pulses and improve policy decisions. An effective, secure, non-intrusive and flexible way of providing open data is to leverage edge computing. Edge computing provides a way to deploy realtime services, that avoid data intrusion issues, while enabling an evolutive approach for the city. However, in order to scale and deliver its full innovation potential, edge computing and open data must form the integral part of a governance policy. This blog explores some of the aspects such a governance policy must address and how. [Read More](https://hubspot.sixsq.com/blog/smart-city-governance-for-open-data-and-edge-computing) 9 January 2021 ## [Data fusion at the edge, killer apps for smart cities and more](https://hubspot.sixsq.com/blog/data-fusion-at-the-edge) By [Marc-Elian Bégin](https://hubspot.sixsq.com/blog/author/marc-elian-bégin) Edge computing, with its ability to process data near its source, delivers secure and future proof solutions, without a round trip to the cloud. In this blog post, we explore examples of how data coming from a variety of simple sensors can be combined to produce better and new smart city services. [Read More](https://hubspot.sixsq.com/blog/data-fusion-at-the-edge) 2 April 2020 ## [What is a Smart City?](https://hubspot.sixsq.com/blog/what-is-a-smart-city) By [Louise Merifield](https://hubspot.sixsq.com/blog/author/louise-merifield) This basic guide to smart cities gives an introduction to one of today's hot topics. Why is everyone talking about smart cities? It is estimated that the world’s population will grow to nine billion by 2043 and ten billion by 2083. This population growth is likely to produce the biggest strain on urban areas, with 11% of the global population currently living in the world’s 101 larger cities - a figure which is expected to rise to 23% by the end of the century. City governors and industry leaders have to find ways to deal with this huge expansion. At the same time, the latest technological advances give us access to solutions and services which were previously unimaginable. Look at how the internet and smart phone have changed the way you live. To address the key challenges of population expansion and rapid urbanisation, cities are exploring these technological advancements, to find ways to increase efficiency and help tackle the issues that come with an increased population. [Read More](https://hubspot.sixsq.com/blog/what-is-a-smart-city) 8 November 2019 ## [What is Edge Computing?](https://hubspot.sixsq.com/blog/what-is-edge-computing) By [Marc-Elian Bégin](https://hubspot.sixsq.com/blog/author/marc-elian-bégin) Edge Computing is one of the latest buzz expressions in the ICT world, along with IoT, big data and artificial intelligence. [Read More](https://hubspot.sixsq.com/blog/what-is-edge-computing) 10 October 2018 ## [Cloud and Edge are part of the same Continuum](https://hubspot.sixsq.com/blog/edge-cloud-continuum) By [Marc-Elian Bégin](https://hubspot.sixsq.com/blog/author/marc-elian-bégin) There have been wild predictions recently that the edge will overtake if not kill the cloud in terms of volume of data processed. While it is helpful to raise awareness of the potential of edge computing, which is undoubtedly huge, it is also an oversimplification. Instead of adding fuel to this dispute, I prefer to offer peace and bring those two fundamental building blocks together. [Read More](https://hubspot.sixsq.com/blog/edge-cloud-continuum) 9 October 2017 ## [Improving Emergency Situation Management in Smart Cities](https://hubspot.sixsq.com/blog/improving-emergency-situation-management-smart-cities) By [Cristóvão Cordeiro](https://hubspot.sixsq.com/blog/author/cristóvão-cordeiro) Managing the Fog Fog computing and edge computing are ways of bringing cloud computing capabilities to the edge of the network and closer to the rapidly growing number of connected devices and sensors that consume computing services and generate massive amounts of data. This raises difficulties in terms of the architecture and management of computing systems and it is exactly this issue which is being addressed by the mF2C project. [Read More](https://hubspot.sixsq.com/blog/improving-emergency-situation-management-smart-cities) [1](https://hubspot.sixsq.com/blog/topic/smart-cities/page/1) [All posts](https://hubspot.sixsq.com/blog/all) [![sixsq.png](https://hubspot.sixsq.com/hs-fs/hubfs/sixsq-an-ekinops-company-red-on-transparent-1024px.png?width=1024&height=512&name=sixsq-an-ekinops-company-red-on-transparent-1024px.png "sixsq.png")](https://hubspot.sixsq.com/) © 2026 SixSq