Cologne relies on smart cities: How AI revolutionizes our municipalities!

Cologne relies on smart cities: How AI revolutionizes our municipalities!

Köln, Deutschland - Cologne - The future of cities is facing a change! According to the United Nations, over 60 percent of the world's population will live in urban metropolitan areas by 2030. Dr. Daniel Trauth, founder of the innovative Cologne startup Datamatter, sees smart cities the key technology to meet the challenges of this urban compression. His company, which emerged from RWTH Aachen, develops smart systems that improve citizen service in a practical way and at the same time reduce costs. Dr. Trauth emphasizes that the integration of artificial intelligence (AI) in the everyday life of cities is of the utmost importance in order to realize effective traffic control, intelligent energy networks and modern waste management. As he emphasizes, an average citizen in Germany only deals with offices three to ten times a year, but every day he is faced with urban infrastructures that need to be made more efficiently.

global trends and local opportunities

The exponential growth of the urban population leads to enormous pressure on the resources of the cities. The market for smart cities is currently estimated at over $ 700 billion and is expected to grow to $ 4 trillion by 2030. In Germany, too, an increase of 8 billion euros is expected to up to 47 billion euros by 2030. An important aspect that Dr. Trauth emphasizes, the need to include in particular medium and small cities in the development of smart city initiatives, as they can often make decisions faster than major cities. In addition, he describes the concept of an electronic urban database as a decisive step in the establishment of a digital ecosystem, in the public sector and private sector to better coordinate services.

This makes the trend towards urbanization and urgency to "smartize" the cities more and more clear. In view of 70 percent of global energy consumption that is already in cities, the development of intelligent infrastructures is essential to increase the quality of life and to meet the requirements of today's and future generations. This comprehensive concept relies on innovative use of technologies to increase the efficiency and competitiveness of urban systems - and this is not just a trend, but a necessity that will form future -oriented cities, as is also discussed in scientific sources ( Nature ).