The Institute of Smart Cities is a R+D institute dedicated to design and develop technology and services for smart cities, cities which aim to use and manage a range of resources, such as electricity, road traffic, water, waste and citizen engagement, in an efficient and integrated manner. In our vision, the combined use of sensing elements and distributed communication networks is paramount in order to achieve an environment in which it is possible both to compile a great deal of data on the urban ecosystem and attain a high degree of user-device interaction.