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Technologies have also been evaluated according to how they are used by citizens, who must be the main concern of all urban development. Through a survey conducted among the Smart City Spanish network (RECI) we found that the ICT\u2019s that change our cities everyday must be reviewed, developing an innovative methodology in order to find an analysis matrix to assess and score all the technologies that affect a Smart City strategy. The paper provides the results of this methodology regarding the three main aspects to be considered in urban developments: mobility, energy efficiency, and quality of life after obtaining the final score for every analyzed technology. This methodology fulfills an identified need to study how new technologies could affect urban scenarios before being applied, developing an analysis system to be used by urban planners and policy-makers to decide how best to use them, and this paper tries to show, in a simple way, how they can appreciate the variances between different solutions.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.3390\/systems5010008","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2017,1,30]],"date-time":"2017-01-30T11:36:30Z","timestamp":1485776190000},"page":"8","update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/mdpi_crossmark_policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":12,"title":["An Analysis Matrix for the Assessment of Smart City Technologies: Main Results of Its Application"],"prefix":"10.3390","volume":"5","author":[{"given":"Pablo","family":"Branchi","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Smart Cities (ISC)\u2014Public University of Navarra, Pamplona 31006, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"given":"Carlos","family":"Fernandez-Valdivielso","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Smart Cities (ISC)\u2014Public University of Navarra, Pamplona 31006, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]},{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0000-0002-2229-6178","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Ignacio","family":"Matias","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Institute of Smart Cities (ISC)\u2014Public University of Navarra, Pamplona 31006, Spain"}],"role":[{"role":"author","vocabulary":"crossref"}]}],"member":"1968","published-online":{"date-parts":[[2017,1,29]]},"reference":[{"key":"ref_1","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"303","DOI":"10.1080\/13604810802479126","article-title":"Will the real smart city please stand up?","volume":"12","author":"Hollands","year":"2008","journal-title":"City"},{"key":"ref_2","doi-asserted-by":"crossref","first-page":"324","DOI":"10.1162\/rest.88.2.324","article-title":"Smart cities: Quality of life, productivity, and the growth effects of human capital","volume":"88","author":"Shapiro","year":"2006","journal-title":"Rev. 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