Smart cities: understanding the challenges and opportunities

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. Elsewhere, they may find themselves stuck in an 182km-long traffic jam. Or they may have trouble sleeping because strong neon lights brighten up their street as if it were a soccer stadium.

The business of definition What does constitute a smart city? On this question, there was a reasonable degree of global consensus. More than two out of three respondents iden-tified inter-operability of systems as a key component, 59.0 per cent chose sustainability, specifically when it came to water and energy use, 57.0 per cent

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