Smart cities: understanding the challenges and …

Infrastructure intelligence in one place Smart cities : understanding the challenges and opportunities How do you make a city Smart ? That is the underlying question that unites the responses to the SmartCitiesWorld/Philips Lighting survey, which draws on input from 150 thought leaders from across the world in association with Introduction The Smart city concept will have different meanings in different cultures and can sound elusive until you break it down into practical terms. A good place to start is with the stupid realities many city dwellers ac- cept as part of their daily lives. In some major cities , residents will spend four years of their lives trying to find a parking place.

If smart cities are to become the ‘new normal’, local authorities and key decision makers need to navigate such difficult areas as technology, communications, data and security, knowing that costs can be difficult to predict and that the project will grow in complexity. Nor can they afford to underestimate the internal challenges, such as ...

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