Smart City Project
Smart City Project
Smart City Project
INTRODUCTION
The first question is what is meant by a ‘smart city’. The answer is,
there is no universally accepted definition of a smart city. It means
different things to different people. The conceptualisation of Smart
City, therefore, varies from city to city and country to country,
depending on the level of development,
FEATURES
• Smart parking
• Intelligent transport system
• Tele-care
• Traffic management
• Smart grids
• Smart urban lighting
• Waste management
• Smart city maintenance
• Smart taxi
• Digital-signage.
Some typical features of comprehensive development in Smart Cities
are described below.
1. Promoting mixed land use in area-based developments — planning
for ‘unplanned areas’ containing a range of compatible activities
and land uses close to one another in order to make land use more
efficient. The States will enable some flexibility in land use and
building bye-laws to adapt to change
2. Housing and inclusiveness — expand housing opportunities for all
3. Creating walkable localities — reduce congestion, air pollution and
resource depletion, boost local economy, promote interactions and
ensure security. The road network is created or refurbished not
only for vehicles and public transport, but also for pedestrians and
cyclists, and necessary administrative services are offered within
walking or cycling distance
4. Preserving and developing open spaces — parks, playgrounds, and
recreational spaces in order to enhance the quality of life of
citizens, reduce the urban heat effects in Areas and generally
promote eco-balance
5. Promoting a variety of transport options — Transit Oriented
Development (TOD), public transport and last mile para-transport
connectivity
6. Making governance citizen-friendly and cost effective —
increasingly rely on online services to bring about accountability
and transparency, especially using mobiles to reduce cost of
services and providing services without having to go to municipal
offices; form e-groups to listen to people and obtain feedback and
use online monitoring of programs and activities with the aid of
cyber tour of worksites
7. Giving an identity to the city — based on its main economic activity,
such as local cuisine, health, education, arts and craft, culture,
sports goods, furniture, hosiery, textile, dairy, etc
8. Applying Smart Solutions to infrastructure and services in area-
based development in order to make them better.
THE CORE INFRASTRUCTURE ELEMENTS IN A SMART
CITY WOULD INCLUDE:
1. Adequate Water Supply
2. Assured Electricity Supply
3. Sanitation, including Solid Waste Management
4. Efficient Urban Mobility and Public Transport
5. Affordable housing, especially for the poor
6. Robust IT connectivity and digitalization
7. Good governance, especially e-Governance and citizen participation
8. Sustainable environment
9. Safety and security of citizens, particularly women, children and the
elderly.
Challenges
• Strategy of area-based development.
• Citizen involvement is a key to the success of the Smart Cities
Mission.
• The involvement has to start from beginning to the end.
• The Smart Cities Mission requires smart people who actively
participate in governance and reforms. Citizen involvement is
much more than a ceremonial participation in governance. Smart
people involve themselves in the definition of the Smart City,
decisions on deploying Smart Solutions, implementing reforms,
doing more with less and oversight during implementing and
designing post-project structures in order to make the Smart City
developments sustainable.
Disadvantage
• Privacy concerns for its citizen
• Security and Safety concerns
• Cost of living
• Awareness of citizens
• Battery replacement and charging issues.
The technology will be more accurate or we can say there are some
lags we are facing presently like if we talk about India there is a huge
problem of internet speed so we have to overcome this and many
other problem similar to this problem.
➢ Smart Transportation
You have probably seen a lot of companies create vehicles that they
believe will play a major role in the coming age of the smart city.
From Toyota to Renault, these companies have showcased fully
autonomous vehicles, cars capable of understanding their
surrounding environment to make decisions.
➢ Smart Energy
The idea of having a zero emission city is not too far away from
becoming reality.
The future smart city will include a host of clean energy sources to
power its city. Energy in smart cities is efficient, using less energy
because of the constant real-time data collection and analysis
➢ Smart Infrastructure
As hinted on above, the large collection and analysis of data will play a
big role in the planning of more smart cities down the road. With the
data collected, city planners and architects could create buildings that
are optimized for people based on previous data.
City areas or technologies that were nonexistent can be tested on
citizens to ensure that they truly benefit citizens.
Even more so, smart infrastructure allows for the prevention of public
health issues, potentially stopping airborne illnesses or water
contaminations before they even happen.
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INDEX:
➢ Introduction
➢ Need of Smart City
➢ History of Smart city
➢ Feature of Smart City
➢ Working principle of Smart City
➢ Challenges
➢ Advantages
➢ Disadvantages
➢ Future of Smart City
➢ Conclusion
➢ References
Conclusion:
The smart cities concept has gained a lot of attention lately and it will
most likely continue to do so in the future. Cities are publishing smart
plans, related conferences are trending and more and more books are
being written on the subject.
Cities should find their own definition of what ‘smart’ means, mainly
by:
• Integrating smarter technologies with their economic development
and public services plans and considering how technology or use of
data might help them achieve existing objectives more effectively
• Focusing on pragmatic approaches
• Adopting a participatory approach to setting and delivering
strategies and initiatives.
The private sector should:
• Work in partnership with cities on designing products and services
that are financially viable and respond to local needs and challenges
• Work with relevant parties on identifying and building the business
models needed to enable to take projects forward.
The Government should continue to make funding available to test
new products and initiatives and also make sure that:
• Efforts are coordinated rather than isolated (across the different
Catapults for example, where there is currently a risk of unintended
duplication)
• Initiatives like the Smart Cities Forum involve representatives and
gather insights from all the relevant sectors