Málaga Living Lab
Malaga, the birthplace of Picasso, is the capital of the Costa Del Sol in Spain. Málaga Living Lab is an ecosystem of Living Labs and innovation and development projects carried out in and for the city, and participated by the citizens in cooperation with different areas of the City Council, public and private companies as well as research Institutions. Malaga is a Smart City with special focus on the Energy Efficiency domain (www.smartcitymalaga.es)
Description
Málaga Living Lab has been created with the objective of harmonizing the existing Living Lab related projects carried out in the city, taking advantage of the possible synergies and defining a common methodological framework for citizen and user involvement. It is also an objective of the Living Lab to define a roadmap towards a multi-domain smart city built in a public-private-people-partnership (PPPP) fashion and making citizen participation one of its main foundations. The Living Lab intends to be a tool to deliver efficient public services adapted to the citizens’ demands making use of new technologies (Future Internet), and it also intends to be an efficient way to promote entrepreneurship in the city.
Málaga Living Lab´s main characteristics are: Multi-project and Multi-domain Living Lab (Energy, Smart Cities, Sustainable Mobility, eParticipation, Social Inclusion, Turism and Social Innovation); Continuity; Openness and Flexibility (very light governance structure); Important technological infrastructure; Privately and Publicly funded projects; Territorial Living Lab (city of Málaga); Promoted and supported by the City Council of Málaga.
To allow the quick implementation of smart city services at large scale Málaga city has invested and developed an important technological infrastructure in the last few years: Municipal Wi-Fi network, Multi-service fibre networt, proprietary broadband network (optical fibre) that interconnects 72 municipal offices and premises implementing a multi-service design that allows many different services (VoIP, Data, Video, tele-presence, Video broadcasting, virtual networks, etc), Dynamic Digital Signage Network, Virtualisation system for urban traffic control cameras, Municipal network of 23 telecentres, Municipal Wireless broadband network or Metropolitan area network based on WIMAX technology and deployed using 2-level architecture with a high capacity backbone, Municipal energy tele-control system, Geographic Information System (GIS) for the calculation, geo-referentiation and visualization of urban indicators, Electric municipal networks and the public lighting network.
References and Track Record
Málaga, as a city, has been a promoter, supporter, participant and a real-life scenario for Living Lab related projects (public/private managed innovation, research and development projects with strong citizen involvement) for several years now. In 2009 Málaga became a Smart City with special focus on energy efficiency (www.smartcitymalaga.es). Málaga Living Lab is promoted by the Málaga City Council (represented by 3 different departments: Civic Participation, Immigration, Development and Cooperation Department, New Technologies Department and OMAU or Observatory of Urban Environment) and the Municipal Energy Agency, and participated by UMA (University of Malaga), KIC (Knowledge Innovation Community), Industry (Endesa, the biggest electrical company in Spain) and SMEs.
Malaga has participated in multiple local, national and international projects using a citizen-centric approach and the city as a real-life scenario such as: Smart City Málaga (www.smartcitymalaga.es), Green eMotion (FP7), Málaga Plan for Sustainable Mobility (PMMS), Málaga plan for Sustainable Energy, “ALAs” project (www.redalas.org), CAT-MED, "Hogar" project, School for civic responsibility and inter-cultural co-existence, Soho Malaga, City for Everyone and Europetition.
Málaga city belong to many international networks and associations such as Eurocities, Energycities, ManagEnergy, LUCI, European Mayors, CIVITAS, Cities for Mobility, ACRR, RETE, AIVP, WACAP, DSF, ACIDD, OIDP, COPPEM, ECCAR and some others,
Contact Contact person: Jaime Briales, jbriales@malaga.eu
Host organization: Municipal Energy Agency
Address: C/ Manuel Martín Estévez, nº 4, 29016, Malaga, Spain
Telephone: +3495128977, website: www.energia.malaga.eu
