The Mexican Confederation of Industrial Chambers (Concamin) recently told the EFE news agency that they identified 13 cities with the potential to implement a concept of smart cities, known worldwide as smart cities.

The organization pointed out that cities such as Aguascalientes, Cuernavaca, León, Pachuca, Coatzacoalcos, Chetumal, Mérida, Oaxaca, Salina Cruz and Tuxtla Gutiérrez, Xalapa, Morelia and Mexical.

These localities will receive support from the industry based on three criteria: the number of population that must be from half a million to one million inhabitants, economy, governance and strategic location. The objective is to make them key players in the economic aspect of the country.

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Although the Concamin will offer a scheme of solutions to the cities after a diagnosis of 80 indicators, it will be the municipalities themselves who design their projects.

What are smart cities?

Talking about smart cities could be complicated and there will be those who think that it is about processors, robots, and things like that, but in reality the concept is broader and yes, it involves the use of technology, but also large volumes of data obtained not only by mobile phones, but also by surveillance systems, weather or traffic meters, among others, distributed throughout the cities.

The main cities of the world began to take shape in the first half of the last century, some even with more time, and the model from which they started is already obsolete and to show the vehicular traffic that exists in important places such as New York, Paris, Mexico City, Hong Kong. The original plans did not contemplate millions of inhabitants in a reduced area and basic services such as drinking water or even a bathroom to take a shower are a problem in some of these areas.

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The Smart City Index 2020 showed three Latin American cities within the 100 best, with Medellín, Colombia, standing out in position 72, a rise of 19 positions and surpassing places such as Milan, Tokyo, Osaka or Beijing with strategies that have allowed them improve security with closed circuit video surveillance or access to medical appointments through new technologies.

Mexico City was ranked 90, down two positions compared to 2019, with pending issues in health and safety according to the index.

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