These smart cities will be built along the Delhi Mumbai Industrial Corridor (DMIC). The smart cities will be equipped with an array of modern technologies, including Internet of Things (IoT), Machine to Machine communication (M2M) and mobility, and therefore, there can be an increase in demand for new specialist roles in the IT sector. Hence, the job opportunities will also be created.
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The report, Smart Cities: Business Models, Technologies and Existing Projects” defines a smart city as one that has implemented or is piloting technology across three or more “functional areas,” which include things like transportation, energy or safety.
Speaking to over 100 city leaders across Asia Pacific, Sjostrom highlights the three phases cities generally undergo in leveraging technology to transform citizens’ lives and solve urban challenges.
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Smart CityOnce a week some city on the planet announces it will become a “Smart City”. Most can’t exactly describe what makes a city smart but they know it involves ubiquitous high speed internet and lots of smartphone apps. They hope that just by labeling the city smart it will surely increase economic activity and its “livability”, draw people to the city, and lift spirits of the citizenry and productivity for all.
Paolo Neirotti, Alberto De Marco, Anna Corinna Cagliano, Giulio Mangano and Francesco Scorrano are a team of researchers in the Department of Management and Production Engineering at Politecnico di Torino, a public engineering university in Turin, Italy. "The negative correlation between hard and soft domains," the authors write, "is an indicator that many municipalities and their technology vendors mainly focus on technology, and not on people. However, complementarities between ICT systems and the human/relational capital of the local population should be achieved to facilitate the building of a comprehensive approach for the SC evolution." Their study is published in the most recent completed issue of the journal Cities. The goal of their work was to figure out whether, in a time of "limited empirical evidence" and "hype," can a shared definition of the smart city concept be created? And if it can be, does it help explain how it has, and hasn’t, spread thus far?
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