About SmartCity
Nowadays Humans became curious to know each information within seconds. Humans started living in silos, then they started forming groups then communities then cities and the process goes on. Now is the time to restructure these cities or communities to ease the life of humans.
A smart city (also smarter city) uses digital technologies to enhance performance and wellbeing of the citizens. These digital technologies enables to:
- Reduce the costs and resource consumption
- Engage more effectively and actively with its citizens
- Smart Governance - “SMART Governance” is about the future of the public services.
- Smart Energy - "Smart Energy", ecofriendly energy solutions with alternative sources.
- Smart Environment - "Smart Environments", contains contributions from leading researchers, describing techniques and issues related to developing and living in intelligent environments.
- Smart Transportation – "Smart Transport", initiative promotes transportation practices that advance environmental sustainability and equitable economic development, while maintaining high standards of governmental efficiency and transparency.
- Smart IT & Communication - "Smart city communications", that connect people, objects, and sensors involve multiple access and aggregation networks that can vary from public to private and wired to wireless.
- Smart Health - "Smart Health", is a new paradigm for the provision of healthcare within smart cities.
- Smart Education - "Smart Education", is having an out of the box procedure to organize class for each of the students of different ages.
- Smart Buildings - "Smart buildings", deliver useful building services that make occupants productive (e.g. illumination, thermal comfort, air quality, physical security, sanitation, and many more) at the lowest cost and environmental impact over the building lifecycle.
- Smart Transport - Maximum Travel Time of 30 min in small cities, 45 min in Metroplotian cities.
- Smart Water - 24X7 Water Supply, Pure Water
- Smart Waste Management - 100% household should have access to toilets, 100% schools have toilets for girls.
- Smart Electricity - 100% household have electricity connection, 24X7 supply of electricity.
- Smart Communication - 100% household have telephone connection including mobile.
The Smart Cities Mission requires smart people who actively participate in
governance and reforms. Citizen involvement is much more than a ceremonial
participation in governance. Smart people involve themselves in the definition of the
Smart City, decisions on deploying Smart Solutions, implementing reforms, doing more
with less and oversight during implementing and designing post-project structures in
order to make the Smart City developments sustainable. The participation of smart
people will be enabled by the SPV through increasing use of ICT, especially mobilebased
tools.
SmartCities may create the value in the following ways:
- Public spending is reduced in the long term on the public infrastructure in smart city and buildings with efficient building automation, water and sanitation facilities, electricity and high-speed internet connectivity and incident reporting.
- The efficiency of public services and their quality leads to higher satisfaction quotient in the citizens, which in turn leads to effective utilization of services provided.
- Provides base for better decision making for identification and enhancement of the city boundaries or inclusion of new services/infrastructure requirements in the city limits.
- Helps to promote social development holistically such as basic education, employment, food and housing security for all strata of society.
- Real time information availability – enhances citizen awareness about the city they live in by providing information update in real time and equipping them to make informed decisions.
- Intelligent networks of people, mobiles, sensors and actuators generating data at the rate of more than terabyte per second leading to advanced analytics in real time which helps in disaster management and recover post the disaster.
- Energy efficient smart cities lead to sustainable management of energy resources in the long run through smart grids, efficient distribution and metering and processing and measuring of other environmental parameters along to synchronize with changing demand patterns.
- Public and voluntary participation in government and e-government policy making.
- Increased public safety through efficient management of public emergency systems, civil defense, video surveillance and fire and other hazard prevention and detection.
- Holistic social development through provision of basic education for all the citizens including e-learning and teleworking, e-tourism and cultural information, e-commerce, etc.
