Eps 1036: smart cities
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Department for Business, Innovation and Skills , UK 2013: "The concept is not static, there is no absolute definition of a smart city, no end point, but rather a process, or series of steps, by which cities become more 'liveable' and resilient and able to respond more quickly to new challenges."
To sum up, it is possible to assert that any smart city initiatives necessitate the government's support for their success.
People, Processes, and Technology (PPT) are the three principles of the success of a smart city initiative.
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Smart cities integrate computers - capable networks of sensors and software into buildings and infrastructure to control lighting, heating and air conditioning. Sensors collect information to manage traffic flow and energy consumption; critical information is used to do everything from reduce the consumption of natural resources to enable citizens to communicate more easily with first responders and among themselves in emergencies. IoT and sensor technology use smart cities to connect all the city's components to collect data and improve the lives of citizens and visitors.
But to get there, according to a new report by the Institute for the Study of Smart Cities , silos need to be broken up to coordinate technology sectors and disciplines.
Most new smart city projects are focused on the Middle East and China, but many cities around the world are starting to deploy smart technologies. In 2018, Reykjavik and Toronto were named the "smartest cities in the world," alongside Tokyo and Singapore. The city, often considered the gold standard for smart cities - the state of Singapore uses sensors and IoT - enabled cameras to monitor the movement of locally registered vehicles, pedestrians, and other pedestrians on its streets.
The network is an advanced networked telecommunications system that supports sensors and devices that collect and analyze data in real time. It is used to optimise the efficiency of urban operations and services, to connect citizens and to improve the quality of life. Smart technologies help businesses and residents monitor their health, safety, health care, transportation, energy, water, air quality and more, all of which are monitored and analyzed by the company and residents in real time, "according to the city's website.
A city with a large community is an example of connectivity that can be reached almost anywhere, "the city's website says.
If anything is called "smart" today, it is not so much the smart buildings, but the various technologies that make it possible to transform connectivity and data into intelligence, which serves as a basis for decision-making. The importance of smart is still being discussed, especially where the focus is on meeting citizens "needs and solving the challenges of people, society and urban communities. Nevertheless, we will start to approach smart cities against a technological background and eventually have goals and results that shape the development of the smart city at all levels. What really matters is the facet, infrastructure of the city and the role of technology in the future.
Smart City projects will increase significantly as the first real smart cities move towards them. The more popular applications of the "smart city" include smart buildings, smart infrastructure and smart transport systems. We have already mentioned some of them, such as tackling pollution in Glasgow and developing smart roads in London.
However, these cases often combine the benefits of greater efficiency, better living in urban areas, urban problem solving and the primacy of citizens for a variety of reasons.
I have already written about Accenture research that looked at new technologies, including the Internet of Things, from the perspective of citizens - and found that they improve citizens "satisfaction. In addition to these efforts, the President's Council of Scientific and Technological Advisers is studying how a variety of technologies can improve the quality of life of citizens in urban areas and their access to services.
The National Science Foundation has announced plans for new investments in FY16 related to Smart Cities Grants, and also announced a new framework for coordinating basic research that will guide and accelerate the transition to a scalable and replicable Smart City approach. The funds will go to a research group that seeks solutions for cities and to the development of the Internet of Architecture in cities. It also announces the creation of the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Department of Energy's Office of Science to coordinate the development of a series of basic research that will guide the next generation of smart cities research and technology development in the US and around the world.
The future of smart cities will include the use of advanced low latency applications and the deployment of high-speed fibre to the node and fibre to the home . Ciena has been helping cities for years to install fiber optic cables in their neighborhoods, but they are not willing to cover the costs. Eventually I forgot the city. The ability to reach neighborhoods with fiber is critical to getting cities to this point, "said Michael O'Brien, Ciensa Consulting Vice President and General Manager of Smart Cities Group.