Globally, the smart cities market is expected to reach US$2.5 trillion by 2025.
Although the concept of smart cities has been around for quite a while, municipal organizations and government agencies are only now beginning to mobilize budgets and make relevant investments.
In Australia, for example, the Minister for Cities, Urban Infrastructure, and Population Alan Tudge recently made news for funding a series of smart city initiatives leveraging more than 100 IoT-powered sensors to make public spaces safer.
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More than half of the world’s population live in the major cities of the world today, and the United Nations projects that to increase to 68%, or two whole thirds of the world’s population by 2050.
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Singapore, Helsinki and Zurich are the world’s smartest cities, according to an index published on Sept 17 amid a growing debate on the future of urban design for a post-Covid era.
From smart traffic cameras and car sharing apps to pollution monitoring and free WiFi for all, cities around the world are racing to embrace technology, but researchers said the real test was whether citizens felt the benefits.
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Singapore, Helsinki (in Finland) and Zurich (in Switzerland) have been named as the world’s “smartest” cities during this year. They’ve managed to outperform other major European and global financial hubs, according to the Smart City Index Report for 2020.
Geneva is another Swiss city that was ranked in the top 10 smartest cities (at the seventh spot).
The report has been published by the Institute for Management Development (IMD) and Singapore University of Technology and Design (SUTD).
Cities are getting more and more intelligent with technology.
From your house getting smarter to now- the cities, the world is making the best out of leveraging technology. With every passing day, the technology is casting its spell on the way the world is doing in modern times. The devices that are deployed and used in our homes are all becoming smart with every version of it taking its form with time. Well, that is not all because technology has been directly entering the cities straight. A smart city is the one that is being driven by technology. A smart city stands as a representation of optimization, intelligence, and progress.
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