What Should a Smart City Look Like?

Cities need to be an economic hub for growth, but when more people leave rural areas and flock to cities, infrastructure and hundreds of other elements suffer. Smart cities can help with more easily scalable infrastructure and more during periods of growth. Let’s look at a few.

New technologies that help city managers, government, and planners determine where and how to deploy scarce resources help build a solid foundation for controlling economic development and growth. By adopting and adapting a smart city framework built on open source technology, cities of tomorrow can bring together industry, public policy, and innovative technology in new ways.

Smart cities gather a lot of data both physically and electronically. It’s important that any smart city be constructed on a secure foundation that eliminates the possibility the city could be compromised. Collecting, managing, and using data must be secure from the beginning for the city to be successful. Individuals, agencies, and government bodies must feel comfortable sharing data openly and efficiently.

The whole point behind a smart city is to digitalize both government and industry and connect them in ways that facilitate a unified vision. Smart cities need a platform that complements and enhances how city managers and industry executives use machine learning and artificial intelligence to establish a stable environment for citizens.

Part of digitalization is including applications that improve both living conditions and workplaces as well as efficiencies in city services. A smart city must focus on an application-driven environment that supports responsible digitalization from the start.

A smart city will use technology such as sensors, wireless technology, machine learning, and more to access data from the physical world and make it usable and understandable. The sole purpose is to benefit citizens, local government, and businesses by using innovation and efficiencies generated by both artificial intelligence and human beings.

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