Cities are already smart. The people, the businesses, the services, and the buildings are already using smart technology. Today’s municipal services are increasingly data-driven, offering greater personalization, accuracy, ease of use, and efficiency. The technological transformation challenge facing c...
Smart city is an inevitable trend in the development of urban modernization to a certain stage, and it is an effective way to enhance the competitiveness of cities. The construction of smart cities is of great significance to accelerate the integration of industrialization, informatization, urbanizatio...
Scaling existing infrastructure and human resource-intensive processes is cost prohibitive, unmanageable, and unsupportable, so cities are looking to technological solutions to alleviate these pressures. As population has grown, technology has taken unprecedented strides. With the introduction of Internet of...
And because Smart Cities are usually discussed as projects between technology providers, engineers, local authorities and universities,the ordinary people who vote for politicians, pay taxes, buy products, use public services and make businesses work are not even aware of the idea, let alone supporti...
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Smart Cities 1.0 is characterized by technology providers encouraging the adoption of their solutions to cities that were really not equipped to properly understand the implications of the technology solutions or how they may impact citizen quality of life. It’s like someone who may wait in line ...
Smart City 1.0 was led by technology providers. This generation focused on implementing technology in cities despite the municipality's inability to fully understand the possible implications of the technology or the effects it may have on daily life. ...
Smart Cities Index shows that, right now, Britain is one of the most advanced countries in Europe in this field. But it’s still early days and there is more work to do to build more effective partnerships between city authorities and technology providers, and in making the benefits of ...
1. Introduction Smart cities (SCs) and rapid urbanization are transforming the planet and the way we live: globally, around 3 million people move into the urban environment every week [1], and by 2050, cities are estimated to have additional 2.5 billion residents [1]. A greater concentration...
and this is where technology providers and app developers come in. The third layer is usage by cities, companies, and the public. Many applications succeed only if they are widely adopted and manage to change behavior. They encourage people to use transit during off...