With public safety applications, municipalities have the potential to contain the coronavirus and boost public health.
By gaining insights into the movement of people, smart cities can improve quality of life and resolve challenges. These capabilities may prove vital in thwarting the spread of the coronavirus.
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It is estimated by the United Nations that around the year 2008, the world changed from being majority rural to majority urban.
As recently as the 1950s, only 30 percent of the world lived in cities. From 2008 onward, cities have been growing rapidly, and rural areas have continued to see population decline. The United Nations maintains that around three million people move into cities every week.
Smart Cities make life easier for city management teams. Things that used to require an on-field inspection can now be done remotely from a comfortable office desk. Numerous tasks are being done automatically without requiring an IT specialist’s attention and time. All this contributes to better time and city infrastructure management.
Smart City development costs will triple in the next 5 years(as ofa 2015 report), up to 1.135 trillion dollars in 2019, compared to the previously mentioned 311 billion dollars in 2014. Such a rapid pace of development puts a lot of pressure on the software tools used to manage and monitor these cities. Software developers must push their limits to bring the best, most intuitive, capable, and reliable software as a result.
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Collaboration and vision are necessary to build smart cities with integrated technology and innovation, industry leaders said at a panel at CES 2021 on Wednesday.
As cities grow and become more connected, partnerships between the public and private sectors will become more necessary, said Ashok Tipirneni, director of product management and head of platforms for smart cities at Qualcomm.
Nobody knows what tomorrow’s smart cities will look like. However, some things are clear:
- Connected devices will change the economics of collecting and acting upon data.
- The data contains enormous potential.
- Smart cities will improve quality of life while reducing costs.
Still, given this perspective, we must ask, if all this is so evident, why isn’t smart city adoption happening quicker? What is holding the floodgates back?