In 2013 the city bought back its energy grids.
The same applies to traffic management, water systems, energy grids and more.
Mr Juncker is particularly interested in sprucing up European transport, digital and energy grids.
He worries too about future cyber attacks on energy grids, perhaps even a "cyber Pearl Harbor".
Its long-term target may be telecoms and energy grids in rival nations, defectors from the isolated state said.
The Melbourne-based IoT company Freestyle takes advantage of this decentralisation of data to make more responsive energy grids.
Little surprise, then, that researchers have been able to simulate shutting down energy grids, infiltrating water plants and destroying generators.
The country's water and food supplies, transportation and energy grids, industrial complexes, even libraries and community centers, could become targets, they said.
Combined with smart technology roll-out across energy grids, buildings and cities, this low carbon combination makes the most sense economically, environmentally and socially.
And they have plans to try to limit the economic fallout from terrorist attacks, especially attacks against energy grids and pipelines, computer links, telecommunications and transportation.
It is allowing innovative places to become "special zones" that are light on regulation and heavy on such new ideas as smart energy grids and high-density living.
