Sidewalk Labs in the summer trials for the first smart city

Alphabet's Sidewalk Labs hopes to make the difference with its first design for a smart-city in Toronto.

The smart city will be handed over to 2020, but from this summer, testing will begin on some of the proposed technologies, such as said the company's managing director at .Toronto

This is the first time a timetable for a project to increase land efficiency, reduce costs and manage energy.

The Waterfront Toronto government service in March of 2017 called for proposals to build a friendly city to the environment in an area of ​​12 acres. Sidewalk Labs

The smart city should offer new jobs for all ages. The 12 acres will be the first part of a planned redevelopment of about 800 acres of industrial land located east of downtown on Lake Ontario.

Sidewalk Labs was selected in October after submitting a proposal that included it vehicles, a thermal network that does not use fossil fuels, low-cost modular buildings for flexible uses and robotics systems and waste management.Sidewalk Labs

The construction project is expected to be approved by Sidewalk Labs and Waterfront Toronto by the end of 2018 and the first residents could be transported to 2022, CEO Dan Doctoroff said.

Let us mention that other smart city projects have failed miserably because of the very high budgets, the involvement of too many parties and the use of public funds for construction without direct benefit to the wider population.

Of course once again the in personal information is a very big problem, as Sidewalk Labs plans to place sensors and cameras throughout the area.

Doctoroff reported that the company will immediately destroy the information it does not use, and will retain only the data it needs to improve the quality of life. He also said that the data collected will not be sold to advertisers.

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