PORTUGAL BUILDS THE CITY OF THE FUTURE
By Meera Dolasia
Article on DOGO
I read a very interesting article about how Portugal is designing a city in which a super computer called the Urban Operating system, is running the city. The Urban OS will run the critical functions of the city. For example if there is a fire the Urban OS will alert the firemen and guide the fire trucks to where they need to go. They will place sensors around the city to monitor traffic control, water, electricity, heat systems and tons more. They are testing this in a 4,000 acres area near Porto in Northern Portugal. That is not all citizens can program their smart phones to interact with sensors to do functions from a mobile location like turning on their house lights.
I chose this article because I think it was very unique because you usually do not read about these type of articles. I know this article is valid because it is by DOGO news, which is a trusted site, and it was also on some other news companies like BBC. This article proves that many strong nations, like Portugal, are putting in their time, money, and research to advance human technology. This is not similar to the topic we are studying, but is still considered science.
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