Author :
Naphade, Milind ; Banavar, Guruduth ; Harrison, Colin ; Paraszczak, Jurij ; Morris, Robert
Abstract :
The transformation to smarter cities will require innovation in planning, management, and operations. Several ongoing projects around the world illustrate the opportunities and challenges of this transformation. Cities must get smarter to address an array of emerging urbanization challenges, and as the projects highlighted in this article show, several distinct paths are available. The number of cities worldwide pursuing smarter transformation is growing rapidly. However, these efforts face many political, socioeconomic, and technical hurdles. Changing the status quo is always difficult for city administrators, and smarter city initiatives often require extensive coordination, sponsorship, and support across multiple functional silos. The need to visibly demonstrate a continuous return on investment also presents a challenge. The technical obstacles will center on achieving system interoperability, ensuring security and privacy, accommodating a proliferation of sensors and devices, and adopting a new closed-loop human-computer interaction paradigm.
Keywords :
data privacy; human computer interaction; innovation management; investment; open systems; planning; politics; public administration; security of data; socio-economic effects; city administrator; closed-loop human-computer interaction; innovation challenge; management; operation; planning; political hurdle; privacy; return on investment; security; smarter cities; smarter transformation; socioeconomic hurdle; system interoperability; technical hurdle; urbanization challenge; Cities and towns; Economics; Environmental factors; Renewable energy resources; Smart buildings; Strategic planning; Urban areas; Smart cities; Ubiquitous cities; Urban infrastructure management;