A smart city is a high-tech intensive city that connects people, information, and city elements using new technologies and infrastructure to create a sustainable, greener city, competitive and innovative economy, and an enhanced life quality.
1. In terms of infrastructure, the smart cities should have 24×7 availability of high quality utility services like water and power.
2. A robust transport system that emphasizes on public transport is also a key element.
3. In social infrastructure, the cities should provide opportunities for jobs and livelihoods for its inhabitants.
4. The smart cities should also have proper facilities for entertainment and the safety and security of the people. State-of-the-art health and education facilities are also a must.
5. The smart cities should minimize waste by increasing energy efficiency and reducing water conservation. Proper recycling of waste materials must be done in such cities.
Smart City needs 6 features :
- Smart Health
- Smart Education
- Smart Mobility
- Smart Energy
- Smart Governmental
- Smart economy
- Smart people
- Smart environment
- Smart living
- Smart Telecommunication
Smart Health
• Online accessing to health services:
– booking and paying
– selecting doctor
– access to EPR (Electronic Patient Record)
• Monitoring services and users for,
– learn people behavior, create collective
profiles
– personalized health
– Inform citizens to the risks of their habits
– Improve efficiency of services
– redistribute workload, thus reducing the
peak of consumption
Smart Education
• Diffusion of ICT into the schools:
– LIM, PAD, internet connection, tables, ..
• Primary and secondary schools – university, industry & services
• Monitoring the students and quality of
service,
– learn student behavior, create collective profiles,
– personalized education
• suggesting behavior to
– Informing the families
– moderate the peak of consumption
– increase the competence in specific needed
sectors, etc.
– Increase formation impact and benefits
Smart Mobility
• Public transportation:
– bus, railway, taxi, metro, etc.,
• Public transport for services:
– garbage collection, ambulances,
• Private transportation:
– cars, delivering material, etc.
• New solutions (public and/or private):
– electric cars, car sharing, car
pooling, bike sharing, bicycle paths
• Online:
– ticketing, monitoring travel,
infomobility, access to RTZ, parking,
etc.
Smart Mobility and urbanization
• Monitoring the city status,
– learn city behavior on mobility
– learn people behavior
– create collective profiles
– tracking people flows
• Providing Info/service
– personalized
– Info about city status to
– help moving people and material
– education on mobility,
– moderate the peak of consumption
• Reasoning to
– make services sustainable
– make services accessible
– Increase the quality of service
Smart Energy
• Smart building:
– saving and optimizing energy consumption, district heating
– renewable energy: photovoltaic, wind energy, solar energy, hydropower, etc.
• Smart lighting:
– turning on/off on the basis of the real needs
• Energy points for electric: cars, bikes, scooters,
• Monitoring consumption, learn people/city behavior on energy consumption, learn people behavior, create collective profiles
• Suggesting consumers
– different behavior for consumption: different time to use the washing machine
• Suggesting administrations
– restructuring to reduce the global consumption,
– moderate the peak of consumption
Smart Governmental Services
Smart governance is about the future of public services, greater efficiency, community leadership, mobile working and continuous improvement through innovation.
• Service toward citizens:
on‐line services:
-register, certification, civil services, taxes, use of soil, …
Payments and banking:
– taxes, schools, accesses
Garbage collection:
– regular and exceptional
Quality of air:
– monitoring pollution
Water control:
– monitoring water quality, water dispersion, river status
Cultural Heritage:
-ticketing on museums,
Tourism:
-ticketing, visiting, planning, booking (hotel and restaurants, etc. )
social networking:
-getting service feedbacks, monitoring
• Social sustainability of services:
– crowd services
• Social recovering of infrastructure,
– New services, exploiting infrastructures
• Monitoring consumption and exploitation of services, learn people behavior, create collective profiles
– Discovering problems of services,
– Finding collective solutions and new needs…
Smart Telecommunication
• Fixed Connectivity:
– ADSL or more, fiber,
• Mobile Connectivity:
– Public wifi, Services on WiFi, HSPDA, LTE
• Monitoring communication infrastructure
• Providing information and formation on:
– how to exploit the communication infrastructure
– Exploiting the communication for the other services,
– moderate the peak of consumption
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