smart cities
What is a smart city?
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A smart city has been defined as a ‘knowledge’, ‘digital’, ‘cyber’ or ‘eco’ city; representing a concept open to a variety of interpretations, depending on the goals set out by a smart city’s planners. We might refer to a smart city as an improvement on today’s city both functionally and structurally, using information and communication technology (ICT) as an infrastructure.
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A city well performing in a forward-looking way in [economy, people, governance, mobility, environment, and living] built on the smart combination of endowments and activities of self-decisive, independent and aware citizens.
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A city that monitors and integrates conditions of all of its critical infrastructures including roads, bridges, tunnels, rails, subways, airports, sea-ports, communications, water, power, even major buildings, can better optimize its resources, plan its preventive maintenance activities, and monitor security aspects while maximizing services to its citizens.
Smart Cities’ ICT Infrastructure
ICT is the basic infrastructure of a smart city, used not only in cyber space, but also as communicating elements of physical infrastructure, transmitting real-time data on a city’s status by way of sensors and processors applied within real-world infrastructure. This interoperation of countless independent systems demands that openness and standardization be adhered to as the key principles in smart city construction. At the subsystems level, a lack of openness limits the scope of a smart city, and a lack of standardization increases the costs of a city’s construction. Without openness and standardization, a smart city project quickly becomes cumbersome and expensive.
Types of smart cities
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New cities, built smart from the start: these cities are designed to attract businesses and residents with a master plan that uses ICT to deliver efficient citizen benefit services.
Existing cities made smart,
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A smart city has been defined as a ‘knowledge’, ‘digital’, ‘cyber’ or ‘eco’ city; representing a concept open to a variety of interpretations, depending on the goals set out by a smart city’s planners. We might refer to a smart city as an improvement on today’s city both functionally and structurally, using information and communication technology (ICT) as an infrastructure.
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A city well performing in a forward-looking way in [economy, people, governance, mobility, environment, and living] built on the smart combination of endowments and activities of self-decisive, independent and aware citizens.
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A city that monitors and integrates conditions of all of its critical infrastructures including roads, bridges, tunnels, rails, subways, airports, sea-ports, communications, water, power, even major buildings, can better optimize its resources, plan its preventive maintenance activities, and monitor security aspects while maximizing services to its citizens.
Smart Cities’ ICT Infrastructure
ICT is the basic infrastructure of a smart city, used not only in cyber space, but also as communicating elements of physical infrastructure, transmitting real-time data on a city’s status by way of sensors and processors applied within real-world infrastructure. This interoperation of countless independent systems demands that openness and standardization be adhered to as the key principles in smart city construction. At the subsystems level, a lack of openness limits the scope of a smart city, and a lack of standardization increases the costs of a city’s construction. Without openness and standardization, a smart city project quickly becomes cumbersome and expensive.
Types of smart cities
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2.
3.
New cities, built smart from the start: these cities are designed to attract businesses and residents with a master plan that uses ICT to deliver efficient citizen benefit services.
Existing cities made smart,