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Smart Cities – Management of Smart Urban Infrastructures, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne

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About this Course

Learn about Smart Cities within the context of management of urban infrastructures. The introduction of Smart urban technologies into legacy infrastructures has resulted in numerous challenges and opportunities for contemporary cities and will continue to do so. This course will help you to understand how to make the best of these smart technologies in your cities’ legacy infrastructures. Over the past few years, advances in the Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have significantly challenged the traditionally stable land scape of urban infrastructure service provision. This has resulted in increasing interest from both technology vendors and public authorities in the transition of cities towards so-called “Smart Cities”. Although such “Smart technologies” can provide immense opportunities for citizens and service providers alike, the ICTs often act as disruptive innovators of urban infrastructure service provision. In this MOOC, you will gain a thorough understanding of the challenges and opportunities associated with the Smart urban infrastructures, namely Smart urban transportation and Smart urban energy systems. Over the journey of this 5-week online course you will learn about the most important principles for the management of Smart urban infrastructures as well as the applications of these principles in the transportation and energy sectors. This course does not have any prerequisites. However, to take the most away from of this MOOC, we strongly encourage you to enroll in our other MOOC on the Management of Urban Infrastructures, which has been widely praised by learners. Through this course, you will: - Gain a deep understanding of the nature of disruptive innovations (smart technologies) in urban infrastructure systems; - Learn about state-of-the-art strategies for effectively managing the transition from legacy infrastructures to smart urban systems; - Study the management of the transition phase from legacy infrastructure systems to smart cities by supporting innovations while avoiding early lock-in; and - Understand potential applications of the materials learned in this course within the context of the management of smart urban transportation systems as well as smart urban energy systems....

Top reviews

By LY

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Mar 13, 2018

Excellent overview on different aspects of smart urban infrastructure. Course creators made complex issues really easy to understand, even for absolute beginners.

By TC

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Mar 12, 2018

This course is great. I like the way the course is structured and how the lecturers are able to articulate complex matters in a simple format.

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By RIZWAN KHURSHID

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Dec 05, 2018

I have been enlightened by the course study and the material provided hence have given a 4 star rating for the course.The questionnaire which are provided at the end of the each block are refreshing while as the final test quiz need good preparation to qualify.Thank you for the support.

By Joël Riandey

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Nov 24, 2018

Good theorical introduction to smart cities concepts.

Relevant interviews.

A definition of smart cities or urban manager would be appreciate. Sometimes, not very clear distinction with policy makers

Giving more instantiated views of the concept would be appreciated too.

Easy quizz evaluation mode (regarding to some other course ;-)

By Mohamed Abdoullah CHEYAKH

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Nov 17, 2018

un bon Mooc

By Phannisa Nirattiwongsakorn

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Nov 07, 2018

English of this course is somewhat hard to follow. And I would like to learn more about case studies.

By Ellen Guimaraes

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Nov 01, 2018

The course was well done, the topics were organised in a way to keep us interested.

By Jorge Amodio

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Oct 31, 2018

I really loved the course, very informative and motivational to keep doing research in the subject

By Joanne Harrell

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Sep 21, 2018

Well done and relevant! Good overview and also appropriate depth.

By Illia Tsarenko

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Sep 20, 2018

More practice less theory

By Hitoshma Singh Chouhan

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Sep 06, 2018

Really well structured course. Only rating it 4 because I hoped for a longer learning program.

By Bertrand Michel

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Sep 05, 2018

Excellent content about how digitalization is transforming our urban infrastructure. Really enjoyed the "academic class" and the "real world" content (interviews, discussions with top people)! Thanks a lot! It's been a very interesting training!

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