New Approach for Environmental Future City Created by ICT: Sustainable City Network

Various projects for the achievement of a Smart City or an environmental futuristic city are being advanced in Japan and all parts of the world. Recently, organizations have been required to cross-functionally solve different problems in different fields like energy, buildings, traffic, the environment, medical treatment and the industries of agriculture, forestry and fishery. Information and communications technology (ICT) is expected to be an effective tool for monitoring, visualizing, analyzing and optimizing flows of resources, energy, information, persons and goods. Here, we introduce Sustainable City Network as a new approach to solving various problems with ICT and achieve optimization by having cooperation in large areas in and between cities, towns, and villages. In this paper, we describe the results of a study and case studies on environmental fields. In addition, we introduce results of efforts to expand this new approach from environment problems to areas such as traffic/transportation, medical treatment, and agriculture.