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cities
and sustainable, by embedding sensors directly into
building fabrics for extracting data, and through analyt-
ics that improve both management and performance of
the built environment.
The company is working with these partners to
introduce cloud computing and machine-to-machine
communication for smart cities to collect, manage
and distribute data on all aspects of city activities.
Collection of empirical real-time data will change
fundamentally how cities are managed, by providing for
city functions to be changed in response to conditions
and events as they occur. The UOS centrally collects,
aggregates, orchestrates and analyses the data in a
sensor-rich environment. This allows access to appli-
cations, management tools, services and a wide range of
intelligent devices, from those embedded in the fabric of
buildings to those that manage services such as energy,
water, waste, education and transportation, as well as
medical and interactive surfaces.
Urban regeneration in London
The opportunity in London grew from the relationship
between Living PlanIT, Quintain and the Living PlanIT-
led Technology Strategy Board, funded by the Rapid
Application Platform for Transport and Retail project
based at Greenwich Peninsula.
technologically sound. This requires insightful knowledge by the
industries involved and the capacity to absorb the range of business
segments to produce a coherent whole.
Living PlanIT offers the technology, strategy, tools and services
for smart sensor-networked cities. It enables major companies to
work together on urban development, improving efficiency and
greater sustainability in the build environment. This reduces the
lead time, cost and risk associated with the innovative introduction
of a new business model for a diverse customer base.
Strategic partnerships in technology
Living PlanIT is a privately held technology company founded to
develop software for enabling intelligent environments and making
them commercially viable, by providing innovation for the changes
global megatrends will continue to cause in the future. Alongside a
growing community of partner companies, Living PlanIT is focused
on optimizing urban development efficiency. It owns key tech-
nologies essential to running a smart city and also integrates and
monetizes a range of ancillary technologies for its partners.
Through its partnerships with Microsoft Corporation and Cisco
Systems, Living PlanIT licenses its software – the Urban Operating
System (UOS) – and other intellectual property, for the urban envi-
ronment. Buro Happold provides urban planning and engineering
expertise with its McLaren Electronic Systems sensor analytics tech-
nologies, monitoring and managing built environment operations.
Living PlanIT provides the platform that makes cities smart, efficient
Living PlanIT’s Urban Operating System
Source: Living PlanIT 2012