Enabling energy smart cities through urban sharing ecosystems

In order to build real smart cities, heterogeneous data from different sources has to be properly collected, integrated and shared. In this paper, a real district scale example of urban sharing ecosystem based on coopetition is presented. This digital ecosystem enables data sharing that can be synergically applied to different sectors relevant to the urban context, e. g., energy and transportation, in order to create innovative solutions for energy monitoring, citizen engagement, and evaluation and monitoring at district and city level. (C) 2017 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.