This is our third and final post about the changes we are likely to see when cities become smart. Smart Retail Smart apps will lead retails through the path of flexibility and convenience for the customer. Apps will communicate with beacons to offer products based on location and online shopping behavior, showing customers how products will look like on them or in their places and apps will even allow a customer to scan a product and it will add that product to the shopping b

To talk about what changes we might see taking place on our everyday life when regular cities transform into smart cities, we are going to need more than a single post. So let us just start with the first part of major changes that will be perceived as a city becomes smart. Smart Mobility Smart parking allows drivers to know whether there are free parking spaces, where they are (with navigation options) and how much they cost, comparing travel time and cost with public transp

One of the most impacting challenges that smart cities will face is the disruption of the labor market due to the progressing automation and the use of robotics to replace manual work. New jobs must be created while obsolete ones disappears. And not only that, but people who lost their jobs must be trained as fast as possible so they can be reallocated to new positions. Cities that don't manage this quickly enough will be confronted with long-term unemployment, that may consu