2. What is Smart City ?
“The real ‘smartness’ of a ‘Smart city’ is
in using IoT Communication in
standardized, safe, and secure way to
fulfil the dreams and aspirations of its
citizens.”
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a smart city is a city that uses technology to provide
services and solve city problems. A smart city does things
like improve transportation and accessibility, improve social
services, promote sustainability, and give its citizens a voice.
The main goals of a smart city are to improve policy efficiency, reduce
waste and inconvenience, improve social and economic quality, and
maximize social inclusion. The main goals of a smart city are to
improve policy efficiency, reduce waste and inconvenience, improve
social and economic quality, and maximize social inclusion.
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Promoting mixed land use in area based development.
Smart City Feature
Creating walkable localities –reduce congestion, air pollution and resource depletion,
boost local economy, promote interactions and ensure security.
Promoting a variety of transport options Transit Oriented Development (TOD), public
transport and last mile para-transport connectivity;
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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.
Applying Smart Solutions to infrastructure and services in area-based development in
order to make them better. For example, making Areas less vulnerable to disasters, using
fewer resources, and providing cheaper services.
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5. Key elements of Smart City5
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People
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econom
y
Smart
governance
Smart
living
Smart
environme
nt
Smart
Mobilit
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people
Level of qualification, flexibility to get more opportunities, knowledge about the
policies and schemes launches by the govt would be the first step of each and every
individual, public participation
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economy
Indicators like entrepreneurship, productivity, self— employment rate, GDP per
person, flexibility of labour market, reliability , smart infrastructure which directly
proportional to the per capita income
Efficient govt. services such as e-government portal service, e-learning project, e-
passport, public participation in decision making,
Smart energy: smart grid, energy storage, smart meters
streamlined transportation in order to optimise traffic flow and increase connectivity
renewal of energy, waste water management and provide proper sanitation to
citizens
build intelligent building management systems, which will help save up to 30% of
water usage, 40% of energy usage and reduction of building maintenance costs by 10
to 30%, smart cooling, smart heating
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governance
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mobility
Smart
environment
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living
8. It's hard to ignore the many benefits of smart
cities.
Efficient service delivery in urban areas using
information and digital technologies.
The success of the programs will be judged by
its power to transform the life of the people,
and their ability to reduce growing inequality in
our society.
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