This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the 7th Ibero-American Congress on Smart Cities, ICSC-Cities 2024, held in San Carlos, Costa Rica during November 12-14, 2024. The 24 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 129 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Internet of Things and Big Data; Computational intelligence for smart cities; Optimization, smart industry, and smart public services; Innovative approaches for smart cities; Control strategies for smart grid.