PlanIT Valley

# Smart City Dispatch — PlanIT Valley — research dossier v0.2.3

**Research date:** 2026-10-11  
**Status:** PROVISIONAL, not imported or published in this turn.  
**Geographic unit:** unbuilt planned smart-city project; historical reference  
**Scope:** Proposed project near Paredes; historical plans disagree about the exact area (40 ha and ~1,670 ha reported); no operating project footprint confirmed. Existing villages of Paredes are NOT PlanIT Valley.  
**Classification:** UNBUILT — no operating classification  
**Type score:** NOT SCORED (unbuilt)  
**Autonomy score:** NOT SCORED (unbuilt)  

## Executive conclusion
Historically proposed smart-city concept did not materialize. A failed/unbuilt reference should remain visible as historical design, not a 0A living city. Exact planned footprint inconsistent across contemporaneous descriptions; do not present a precise area or population as factual existing city.

## Main geographic and methodological caveat
Do not publish 0A, 3D, or any operational Type/Autonomy label. Record original smart-city vision only as historical concept; the latest indexed historical reporting does not establish a 2026 relaunch.

## Reproducibility and score gate checks
The eight scoring buckets MOB/ENG/WAT/BLD/SAF/ENV/GOV/HLT retain equal weights 0.125. Each contributing deployment must be operational, have demonstrated geographic scale N (0.65) or W (1.00), have an explicit eligibility gate g=1, and one primary scoring domain. Type and Autonomy use independent maximum per domain. Round-half-up to 2 decimals for display only. Non-qualified fields show 0 contributions to evidence-backed *lower bound*, not that the systems are absent.

| Domain | T winner | T points | A winner | A points |
|---|---|---:|---|---:|
| MOB | — | 0.0000 | — | 0.0000 |
| ENG | — | 0.0000 | — | 0.0000 |
| WAT | — | 0.0000 | — | 0.0000 |
| BLD | — | 0.0000 | — | 0.0000 |
| SAF | — | 0.0000 | — | 0.0000 |
| ENV | — | 0.0000 | — | 0.0000 |
| GOV | — | 0.0000 | — | 0.0000 |
| HLT | — | 0.0000 | — | 0.0000 |

**Exact subtotal:** Type=not applicable; Autonomy=not applicable.  
**Type 2 (score ≥10 plus ≥2 T2 domains):** NOT DEMONSTRATED. T2 eligible domains: none established.  
**Level B (score ≥2.5 and actionable assistance):** NOT DEMONSTRATED.  
**Level C (score ≥10 and ≥2 independent A2 domains with actuation):** NOT DEMONSTRATED.  
**Type 3/Level D:** Neither passes the ≥30 thresholds plus ≥3 goal-directed service-domain gates.  

## Source audit
Discovered 6; examined 6; accepted 6; rejected 0; inaccessible 0; not yet examined 0. Distinct named accepted publishers 6 (may overstate independent evidence families, e.g. JTC and Singapore agencies share common source of technical claims).

- **SRC-001** [accepted] RTP / Agência Lusa — [More than five years later Paredes Silicon Valley still on paper](https://www.rtp.pt/noticias/economia/mais-de-5-anos-depois-de-apresentada-silicon-valley-de-paredes-continua-no-papel_n877306); 2015. Municipality described stalled progress and no development; source accessible and substantively reviewed.
- **SRC-002** [accepted] Xataka — [Smart cities that did not materialize](https://www.xataka.com/internet-of-things/smart-cities-que-iban-a-revolucionar-mundo-momento-se-han-quedado-nada); 2022. Retrospective says project remained on paper; no 2026 primary update.
- **SRC-003** [accepted] URENIO / Aristotle University research blog — [Smart City Strategy: PlanIT Valley (Portugal)](https://urenio.org/2015/01/26/smart-city-strategy-planlt-valley-portugal/); 2015. Historical tech design and funding barrier; no actual deployment.
- **SRC-004** [accepted] Dinheiro Vivo — [Portuguese Silicon Valley cannot advance; missing financing](https://dinheirovivo.dn.pt/sillicon-valley-portugues-nao-avanca-este-ano-faltam-500-milhoes-12611756.html); 2012. Contemporaneous financing failure; not current operations.
- **SRC-005** [accepted] PUCRS university repository — [Academic dissertation assessing PlanIT Valley non-construction](https://repositorio.pucrs.br/dspace/bitstream/10923/25896/1/000506983-Texto%2Bcompleto-0.pdf); 2023. Academic text explicitly notes project not built; PDF indexed content accessed, no full independent site inspection.
- **SRC-006** [accepted] 1001 Smart Cities atlas — [Portugal: historical PlanIT entry cancelled](https://1001smartcities.org/countries/portugal/); 2026. Secondary atlas lists failed/cancelled; does not prove any operational system.

## Technology inventory, inclusion and exclusions
- **TECH-001: Living PlanIT sensor-rich city operating-system concept** — unbuilt design; GOV, scale=not operating, T=3, A=3, g=0; No real built operating district. Smart-city OS described as design concept, never validated at operational scale. [SRC-001;SRC-003]
- **TECH-002: Proposed connected buildings and smart energy infrastructure** — unbuilt design; BLD, scale=not operating, T=2, A=2, g=0; No operating building assets. Descriptions are conditional reference features, not actual deployment. [SRC-003;SRC-004]
- **TECH-003: Planned intelligent mobility systems** — unbuilt design; MOB, scale=not operating, T=3, A=3, g=0; No built mobility network. No transport mode running as PlanIT city service. [SRC-003]

## Autonomy / physical execution
Fixed threshold control, ordinary lighting shutoff, passive heat exchange, real-time collection or automatic alerts are **not automatically Level C**. A2 must have independent context-dependent choice, physical action and measured outcome feedback with material service reach, in at least two separate service domains. A1 means human-facilitated actionable analytics or control recommendations. Candidate AV systems outside the boundary do not count without in-area reach.

## Cross-city and sensitivity checks
- This is a historical planned project result. Never compare it unqualified with Barcelona/Singapore municipality-wide scores.
- Proposals and historical launches are not demonstrated current operation.
- Punggol: confirm autonomous ENGIE cooling's *predictive* advisory distinct from the ODP's BLD management; if not independent at N scale, the Type 2 **two-domain** gate fails despite a potentially high numeric score.
- Porto: verify current 2026 operation of 2016 Cisco sensors and the number of district-covered VLT stations before claiming current T2/B; no automatic 0A fallback.
- PlanIT: no built urban service is demonstrated for the proposed development. Its advertised 3D-like concept is a nonoperating design, not a citywide result.

## Uncertainties and necessary next evidence
No accessible 2026 Paredes municipality project-permit inventory or corporate filings examined; no claim that the land itself is empty. The conclusion is about the specific PlanIT project.

## Publication control
This is a research package intended for a later SCD import. Existing public SCD pages, records, and historical research editions have NOT been modified by this step. A future Sites import should match canonical identities and create versioned editions without duplicate place records.