ABSTRACT
The "smart city revolution" is becoming a significant driver of urban policies. Information technology is providing a basis for planning and designing sustainable low-carbon cities and improving the functional, geographical, social, and cultural integration of infrastructure. Technological progress has always been a source of urban change: advances in military techniques made city walls obsolete, transport technologies enabled physical expansion of urban areas, and development of energy networks set economic activities free of many constraints. Objectives of Res Novae are to rationalize energy consumption, increase distributed generation based on renewable energy sources, reduce the environmental impact of cities and increase the environmental awareness of citizens. Res Novae brings together Bari's two smart city systems, the "network of objects" and infrastructure integration, in a single project embedding a wide spectrum of elements of the smart city paradigm. Aspects like intelligent infrastructure, electric mobility and energy efficiency of the built environment merge with citizens' interactions with the digital environment.
