26th International Association for Management of Technology Conference - IAMOT 2017

Digital spaces and collaborative tools to stimulate the use of collective intelligence, focusing on benefits with human innovation, to find new solutions to the problems or even to predict them, characterize a Smart City. Therefore, what are the basic constituent elements of a place considered intelligent? Which of these elements are found in the cities of Minas Gerais? This research is not intended to test hypotheses, but simply achieve the proposed objectives, as follows: to identify the basic constituent elements of an intelligent city and list the inherent elements of the cities of Minas Gerais. The methodology is qualified as bibliographical and documentary research. An approach on this theme is emerging and indicating solutions to intricate organizational, social and material problems arising from rapid urbanization. The urban logic, strategic intelligence, and risk analysis of investments made the Urban Systems Company able to create the first ranking of smart cities in Brazil, indicating the cities interested in intelligence in their administrative, economic, and development processes. Among the most important cities in Minas Gerais: Belo Horizonte, the second place in governance classification, for intelligence services and partnerships with investment institutions in energy efficiency studies and management tools, and third place in the ranking of the most intelligent cities, according to economic sustainability criteria, promotion of a better quality of life and preservation of the environment; Sete Lagoas, due to the Cities of the Future Project, technologies focused on generation, transmission and distribution of energy, in addition to the implementation of the first experimental photovoltaic solar generation plant in Latin America; and Uberlândia, for implementing Granja Marileusa, the city's first planned neighborhood based on Smart City concepts. It can be considered as an emerging opportunities for the Brazilian cities, the urban infrastructure monitoring systems; Data on people's behavior and lifestyle; Monitoring the health and well-being of the elderly population; New ways of including people with disabilities; Distance education or digital schools; Public management systems. For future studies, it is proposed to check, in Brazil, in all the cities of a state, or in all the states of a region, the constituent elements of intelligent cities. This proposal will make possible greater conclusions and affirmations referring to elements that configure a place like Smart City.