Adequacy of the Status Quo
The concept of smart cities should be approached with extreme caution especially with reference to developing countries such as India which has limited financial resources to put into the growth sectors in economy. Such hi-tech smart cities require huge social infrastructure to succeed in long term. However South Korea’s model of implementing the u-city model across the country uniformly is leading to a forceful adoption of the smart cities. This model leaves no room for public debate and engagement prior to such technologies being implemented
Smart City investment is subject to the numerous investment risks. Due to the nature of technologies and public goods involved the risks can be substantial. New and innovative
Smart Cities by focusing solely on technology can lead to continuation of suboptimal design of urban infrastructure thus leading to wastage and misallocation of public resources. Smart Cities have no incentive to upgrade the pre-internet physical infrastructure. Further the technology is short lived and risks of obsolescence would require constant investments. Thus smart cities are essentially being seen as smart services like smart grids, smart lighting, smart parking, smart buildings etc. and not the improvement of the core physical infrastructure, which enables all those services. The current discourse promotes a idea of smart cities as technocratic fiction for urban management wherein data and software suffice with knowledge, interpretation and thematic experience are superfluous
However, the very idea of a technologically determined smart city will result in a widening of the digital divide. The smart cities perceived as elite concept might improve efficiencies in public infrastructure but ultimately prove too costly to be affordable to the urban poor.
The adoption of such technologies have also differed in the west and rest of the world. It is the developing countries, huge population acting as test beds for the technologies developed in the west. For instance in South Korea, these digital technologies for smarter living and infrastructure can be tested easily by MNCs as there are fewer social and regulatory obstacles to implementation. Also, developing countries are willing to put off the sensitive questions to take the early lead and set standards
“Our Future Selves” by Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen construct views on countries’ technologies that changes the world on a daily basis. Conversely, technologies reconstruct countries in various simpler ways to live throughout economic trends. Furthermore, the quality of life is massively changing with new technologies. Consequently, wealthy countries are viewed differently from poor countries towards technological advantages. Ordinarily, technologies have made the difficult obstacles so much easier than just by hand. Industries have utilized the advanced technologies to provide huge manufacturing productivity. Moreover, Eric Schmidt and Jared Cohen have some very compelling reservations within their article, “Our Future Selves”, on the trends
promoting smart growth. It will be clear that smart growth is the better policy when it comes to building and maintaining America’s towns and cities. One of the most startling consequences associated with urban sprawl is the endless array. of health implications that it has been linked to. According to Public Health Grand.
According to the US Census Bureau report (2012), urban areas are defined as a densely residential, commercial, and other non-residential areas that account for more than 50,000 people. In the US urban population increased by 12.1 percent between 2000 and 2010. In general, urban population account for 80.7 percent of US total population. Other studies also indicate that urban areas are the engines of the United States of America’s economy, creating big opportunities for the entire population in the country. In fact, America’s top hundred urban areas alone comprise at least 75 percent of the country’s gross domestic product (GDP). Urban areas connect consumers and suppliers together in a relatively close proximity leading driven innovations,
Malaysia is an ambitious country which has its own target and goals. A vision known as Vision 2020 was developed in order to make Malaysia as good as other well develops country by the year 2020. In order to achieve the vision, a first step was taken. On 27th June 1998, our fourth Prime Minister had launched Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) which a world-first, world-class act- in order to help world’s companies test limits of technology and prepare themselves for the future. For the first time ever, the MSC bring together an integrated environment with all the unique elements and attributes that are necessary to build a perfect global multimedia climate. Length of this ‘greenfield’ corridor consumes of 15 kilometers wide and 50 kilometers long which starts from the Kuala Lumpur City Centre (KLCC), itself an intelligent precinct, which houses the world’s tallest buildings – down south to the site of the region’s largest international airport, the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA). There are two world’s first Smart Cities are being develop in the Corridor which are Putrajaya known as the new seat of government and administrative capital of Malaysia where the concept of electronic government will be introduced and Cyberjaya, the intelligent city with multimedia industries, R&D centres, a Multimedia University and operational headquarters for multinationals wishing to direct their worldwide manufacturing and trading activities by using multimedia technology. In order to accomplish the initiative, Multimedia Development Corporation (MDC) – fully empowered “one-stop super shop” wholly focused on ensuring the unconditional success of the MSC and its companies which has envisions ...
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With this day and age, many people are in a rush with their cell phones or tablets in hand. In my household, there is rarely a day where we leave the house without our mobile devices; they are literally glued to our hand and city government is racking in money based on our addiction. Many cities are making it accessible to pay for parking meters using our cellphones. Instead of running back to put more coins in the meter or taking the risk of getting a costly parking ticket, the ease of refilling the meter is literally at our fingertips. In 2015, the Obama Administration announced, “a new “Smart Cities” Initiative that will invest over $160 million in federal research and leverage more than 25 new technology collaborations to help local communities
As an easy scope of defining it, urban smart city is a wicked problem since it represents the inability of city planners to incorporate information technology in the daily processes of every urban area to increase their effectiveness and efficiency due to lack of adequate knowledge concerning the outcome of such initiatives. It is a fact that information technology’s limitless uses are likely to create urban centers that make living easier and better, but there is uncertainty with reference to their interconnectivity impacts (Chen par.2). The easiness of identifying the causes of the wicked problem of urban smart city prompts the consideration of various factors. These factors include the issues of privacy and security that surround technological devices, lack of clarity on eventual impact to urban livelihoods, lack of proper operation and maintenance funds, and non-commonness of policies that promote smart city agendas. Fortunately, a solution is available that can alienate all the afore-listed causes of the wicked problem of urban smart city. It involves the adoption of a leadership plan that centers on harmonizing all elements that typify urban smart city. Harmonized leadership is poised to describe systematically the vital features and functions of a typical urban smart city that covers conception, design, implementation, operation, and maintenance. These descriptions are what every involved
The Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC Malaysia) was establish in 1996 with the aspiration of becoming global hub for ICT and multimedia innovation, operation and services and to transform Malaysia into a knowledge- economy and achieve develop nation status in line with vision 2020. The number of companies that have status MSC rise in 1994 to 1997 approximately 2000 companies join it. Malaysia is the nations that live by guiding in five years developments master plan. Providing the ultimate background to these programmes is Vision 2020, a national agenda sets out specific goals and objectives for long-term development which is related with MSC. The chief architect of this vision is Malaysia's Prime Minister, Dato' Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad. Malaysians have responded robustly to his challenge to become a fully developed and knowledge-rich society by year 2020. The length of the Multimedia Super Corridor is 15 kilometer wide and 50 kilometre longs and call as ‘greenfield corridor’. MSC location starts from the Kuala Lumpur City Centre (KLCC) and down south to the site of the region’s largest international airport, the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) which launched on the 27 Jun 1998. Putrajaya and Cyberjaya is the two of the world’s first smart cities that being developed in the corridor. Now Putrajaya is the new seat of government and administrative capital of Malaysia where the concept of electronic government. Cyberjaya become an intelligent city because have multimedia industries, R&D centres, a Multimedia University and operational headquarters to direct their worldwide manufacturing and trading activities through multimedia technology.
At present we are facing many problems in our cities such as structural health of building, waste management, air and noise pollution, energy consumption and traffic congestion. Our project is to monitor these problems and provide a solution. By using an IOT, monitoring becomes quite easy as from anywhere we can monitor it. In our project, we will work on problems of waste management, air and noise pollution, street lighting and make a city “The Smart City”.
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Analogous to the way humans use the Internet, devices will be the main users in the Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem. Therefore, device-to-device (D2D) communication is expected to be an intrinsic part of the IoT. Devices will communicate with each other autonomously without any centralized control and collaborate to gather, share, and forward information in a multihop manner. (Bello and Zeadally, 2014). The word Smart is used in conjunction with various words such as Living, Cities, Metering, Grids, Water Levy and Lighting to describe a variety of applications t...
As previously implied, cities are currently the antithesis of even the barest sense of sustainability. To succinctly define the term “sustainability” would be to say that it represents living within one’s needs. When it comes to the city, with almost zero local sources of food or goods, one’s means is pushed and twisted to include resources originating far beyond the boundaries of the urban landscape. Those within cities paradoxically have both minimal and vast options when it comes to continuing their existence, yet this blurred reality is entirely reliant on the resources that a city can pull in with its constantly active economy.
I personally believe that it depends on the person using the smart technology and how they are using it to their advantage. Without smart technology, we wouldn’t have many things that we have today. For example, smart technology can play a big role in architecture, architects could be trying to research which is the best material to build with and check if there are any good deals as
Load of electricity usage is increasing. So load on generation and transmission lines are also increasing. So these few issues telling about the why we need smart grid.
There are three kinds of development in megacities we would like to explore in this paper, they are sustainable development, economic development and human development. Those kinds of development face many problems in megacities. In 1950 there were only New York and Tokyo as megacities and now in this 21 century the number of megacities are increasing.In 2013 noted there are 28 megacities (New Geography, 2013). Industrialization in developing countries is the main reason why the poor peasant in rural area moved to the cities in the name of better job and higher wages. This urbanization will change the population proportion which is decreasing the rural population and on the other side, increasing the population of urban areas. This continuing movement will inevitably create big and even bigger community in the city and in the end a megacity will be formed. This big number of population influences development of megacities.