DSO role in the deployment of Smart Cities solutions: the case of the Lisbon Urban Sharing Platform as a service provider

Abstract

Urban areas have been growing, both in size and population, which has led to rising problems related to demography, climate change, energy consumption and mobility. The need for providing solutions to these challenges, and achieve the targets proposed for a clean transition, motivated cities and its stakeholders to develop alternative and innovative urban planning strategies and tools to overturn them, based on new technology and integrated infrastructure to meet citizens and business needs.This article explains the type of challenges the Portuguese DSO is facing in cities, specifically in Lisbon, the data that is being collected, how it will be shared and how different stakeholders, including the citizen will be impacted by the new Urban Sharing Platform, developed by the Sharing Cities Programme.(http://www.sharingcities.eu/).