NODA Intelligent Systems discusses how district heating and cooling systems are cost-effective solutions that contribute to developing smart cities Around 66% of Earth population will live in cities in 2050 while in 1950 was 30% 1 . This foreseen evolution of human settlement has the challenge of keeping the COP21 agreement adopted in December 2015 in Paris by 195 members of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. This mainly consists of providing a framework for combating global warming worldwide with the key objective of limiting the rise in global temperature to below 2ºC. In that sense, cities will need to improve its efficiency in resource consumption and use of urban services. One strategy of several cities around the world to face this challenge is to evolve to become smart cities. What does it mean? A smart city is an urban development vision that integrates connectivity between infrastructures, facilities […]