Proposta de indicadores de smart city sustentável: estudo para Belo Horizonte-MG

Abstract

Due to increasing search for shelter in cities by the population, several problems arise in areas like health, safety, environment, resources and infrastructure. In the face of these problems, cities’ governments have been using tools to become smart, within the worldwide accepted concept of Smart City. In light of the lack of metrics to qualify a city as smart, as well as smart methodologies’ distancing from population life quality, the present paper intends to analyze smart city and sustainability indicators, in order to propose a functional index model for a smart sustainable city, in which improvement of citizens’ life quality is the main factor. The city of Belo Horizonte was analyzed as a case study, where its life quality index were also taken into account. This analysis was made through the gathering of indicators proposed by field specialists and official organs, sorting them by theme and their relevance level from the frequency in which indicators appear on the models. The created model proposed, for each theme, indicators of smart city, sustainability and life quality. It can also be perfected by attributing weight to the themes and deeper studies that may customize it for each city’s reality. Quality life, however, should be the main driver in order for cities to evolve in technology and sustainability with the purpose of improving their citizens living experience.