Just a brief comment.

The Urban Operating System is developed by my team at Living PlanIT and incorporates technology harvested from McLaren Electronics in one of our layers (real-time control) that we have integrated with Cisco's hardened routers thus enabling the network to control sensing and actuation directly without intervening hardware. The higher layers of the UOS combine spatial understanding of cities with analytics and simulation objects to both improve the performance of the city (harmonizing building and infrastructure physics with materials, human use patters and underlying infrastructure) in addition to surfacing data to applications we call Place Apps - think of the city "surface" as the new app store were city function is improved, enhanced and augmented as economic and social patters change and evolve. The platform was demonstrated at Cisco Live in the summer and again last week in Rotterdam at the Deutsche Telekom M2M event.