The American research firm Juniper Research, which specializes in new technologies, has revealed its ranking of smart cities worldwide for the year 2015.
Among the top five, three are European cities, including Nice. Barcelona, New York, London, and Singapore complete the list.
This ranking takes into account the capacity of these cities to use smart grids, manage road traffic, and street lighting, as well as aspects of social cohesion and technological expertise.
For Christian Estrosi, Deputy Mayor of Nice and President of the Nice Côte d’Azur Metropolis: “I wanted Nice to be a pioneering city, which is why, starting in 2008, I committed to an economic diversification of the territory based on innovation and new information technologies. We are working to make Nice an interconnected and sustainable metropolis that allows us to save on city management but also to create new services to facilitate the lives of residents.”
