THE ROLE OF UNIVERSITY IN THE CONSTRUCTION OF HUMANIZED SMART CITIES

Abstract

Universities play a fundamental role in the Human Smart Cities context. Thus, the development of a smart campus is recently a growing trend aiming at improving infrastructure and living conditions on universities campuses. Clearly, it is possible to correlate universities with cities in a compositional view, which shows the viability to test and build solutions inside campuses that later can be applied on the development of smart cities. The present paper describes the project Smart Campus UFPA, a study in progress for building a smart campus in the Federal University of Pará and, also, the mobile application called Smart UFPA, which has its initial focus on mobility. The project itself has as its objective to encourage the academic community to discuss and develop alternative solutions to the problems found in the university campus that may be scaled up to the city.