As businesses and governments continue to explore the different applications of IoT and connected, responsive networks, they are beginning to realise the enormous potential of smart cities. However, the success of the smart city initiative is tied closely to the development of a flexible, agile, future-focused data centre infrastructure.
What is a smart city?
A smart city isn’t a futuristic, glass-and-concrete vision from a sci-fi movie. Smart city solutions are all around us today: a network of information and communications technology that uses data to glean insights about our urban environments. Those insights can then be applied to answer growing concerns and issues with urbanization and sustainable development.
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More than half the world’s population live in urban cities today. The UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs predicted that almost 70% of the world population would live in urban areas by 2050, seeking economic opportunities, better education, public services, and living standards.
Urbanization and exponential population growth are the primary sources of various challenges to governments worldwide. Many cities have exceeded their infrastructure system’s capacity while facing further difficulties in providing adequate resources like water, food, and energy, in addition, to providing quality urban services to citizens.
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Smart cities can make residents' lives easier through real-time traffic information and public safety alerts. But governments should be aware of how to effectively manage use cases.
We keep hearing about smart cities, and the immediate questions are: What makes a city smart? How can a city be intelligent?
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As part of tomorrow’s city planning, smart cities will utilize both information and communication technologies as well as Internet of Things (IoT) solutions in a secure way that will make it possible to manage the city’s assets, including its information systems, transportation systems, hospitals, and essential infrastructure. It is true that a smart city can make life easier, but it requires governments to raise awareness of effective and safe management at the same time.
With the smart city vision, the central element is Big Data, meaning a vast amount of information gathered from numerous sources, whose analysis allows for the improvement of the life of city residents. Such data collections require fast, reliable communications between the various sources.
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Despite the significant potential of artificial intelligence to improve public services, most government organizations have yet to embrace AI, partly due to privacy and ethical concerns. A privacy-by-design approach that builds privacy into the design of AI systems from the start can help ensure these technologies comply with privacy regulations and protect citizens’ data while fostering innovation.
AI can transform cities through smart applications that analyze data captured from thousands of interconnected IoT devices. These applications generate insights that help municipal leaders tackle urban challenges such as traffic congestion and air pollution.
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