The term urbotica is a word that comes from the Latin word "urbs" which means "city" and the Greek word "tica" which means that it "works by itself". The urbotica is defined as the grouping of urban public services and establishments that are systematized in order to achieve better administration in the energy, security, and well-being area. Therefore, urbotics could be defined as the unification of technology in the smart project of a city.
The concept of urbotics is an entirely new term since it began to be used recently after the words home automation and inmotics were becoming outdated in their concepts before the emergence of new technologies that are being developed in cities in everything related to automation. So urban automation is any automation system applied to cities.
Urbotics fulfills an essential function within what are called smart cities since it deals with obtaining information on the space or context through cameras and sensors and then prosecutes and details so that decisions can be made that would later originate the actions to be taken. execute, allowing the optimization of resources and increasing its level of efficiency. Its field of application is very broad, this is due to its complicated constitution in today's cities. Currently the basic fields of action of urbotics are: Public safety, urban infrastructure and equipment management, energy efficiency.
For urban planning, being able to count on this kind of systematization can generate a transcendental change for those who live in this kind of cities and causing these cities to be more competitive every day that can attract resources, creativity, human capital that encourages growth through social, cultural and economic level of said urban planning.