For the city of Portland, a key initiative was to better exploit the data it gathered from internet of things devices in particular — devices connected to the internet to gather data about their environment — and smart city initiatives more generally. So the city launched the Portland...
The Future of Cities From Gen Z urban Africans’ frustrated ambitions and development density disputes in Sydney to tackling ‘heat islands’ and community-splitting highways. Plus improving refugees’ lot; natural flood resilience; how the ‘15-minute city’ became politicised; and rethinking places...
LED LightsDigital AgeIn the near future, smart city technologies could play a fundamental role in urban sustainable development; economically, socially, and environmentally. Smart cPolimeni, JohnIorgulescu, RalucaSocial Science Electronic Publishing...
In an October 2018 report, IDC FutureScape predicts that “Investment in smart city use cases will reach $158 billion by 2022, with the fastest overall growth in the Americas and the most spending on fixed visual surveillance and public transit.” As the technology in the...
Street lighting characterizes many smart city initiatives around the world. In fact, significant savings can be achieved by not only replacing traditional luminaires with low-power LEDs, but also providing streetlights with smart light c... G Pasolini,P Toppan,F Zabini,... - 《Applied Sciences》...
Urban centers across the world are embracing advanced smart technologies—investing in AI, cloud computing, IoT, and other digital solutions—as they work to pursue smart city initiatives. But what’s driving this global trend? As urban populations continue to grow, cities are facing greater demand...
Technology spending on smart city initiatives worldwide is forecast to more than double between 2018 and 2023, increasing from 81 billion U.S.
The purpose of this paper is to describe the "156 Speaks Porto Alegre", channel driven to citizen municipal demands, and investigate its integration and relationship with the eight dimensions of the Smart City Initiatives Framework: technology, management and organization, policy context, governance, ...
Despite widespread adoption, there is no consensus on the defining attributes of smart cities, particularly regarding their role in urban sustainability and contemporary urbanism. This paper provides a literature review to understand the implications of smart city initiatives for sustainable urban planning,...
environmental initiatives; a high functioning public transportation system; a confident sense of urban planning and humans to live and work within the city and utilize its resources. A smart city's success depends on its ability to form a strong relationship between the government -- including its...