Approach to the Technical Processes of Incorporating Sustainability Information : The Case of a Smart City and the Monitoring of the Sustainable Development Goals

  1. Parra-Domínguez, Javier 1
  2. López-Blanco, Raúl 1
  3. Pinto-Santos, Francisco 1
  1. 1 Universidad de Salamanca
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    Universidad de Salamanca

    Salamanca, España

    ROR https://ror.org/02f40zc51

Revista:
Processes

ISSN: 2227-9717

Año de publicación: 2022

Volumen: 10

Número: 8

Páginas: 1651

Tipo: Artículo

DOI: 10.3390/PR10081651 GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openAcceso abierto editor

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Resumen

Currently, the concern for achieving and fulfilling the Sustainable Development Goals(SDGs) is a constant in advanced societies. The scientific community and various organisations areworking on obtaining an information system that will make it possible to offer the necessary valueto this type of sustainability information. The article aims to incorporate criteria on the technologyused in the reporting system, specifically in collecting the different types of data and generating otherinterfaces. The methods described here are carried out on a specific case study, a Smart City, showingthe different types of data that exist and the possible interfaces that allow objective monitoring ofthe achievement of the SDGs. It is, therefore, a descriptive study of a process whose results arethe establishment of criteria concerning the different data sources as well as the generation of a setof interfaces that motivate the monitoring that can be carried out in a specific city to observe itscompliance and deviations from critical values, for example, environmental. The main conclusions ofthis research establish the importance of incorporating and sizing the technology needed to developthe criteria for monitoring the SDGs. There is a need for convergence between the correct, objectiveand universal provision of this type of sustainability information and the technology used for thecollection and presentation of the data.

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