SRP782 Smart Cities and Infrastructure | Report

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SRP782 SMART CITIES AND INFRASTRUCTURE
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By definition, a smart city is an urban area which utilizes various types of electronic internet of
things such as sensors in order to gather data which are then utilized for managing assets,
resources as well as resources in an efficient manner. The data is collected from devices, citizens,
as well as assets and thereafter analyses, to manage the transportation systems, information
systems, crime, libraries, schools, as well as other community services (Benevolo et al., 2016).
With the advancement in technology, majority of cities will become “smart”, and this is
concerning various steps taken towards the integration.
The first step is the infrastructure including connectivity and monitoring services for data
connections and reliability. Also, the security should be enhanced to prevent virtual breaching of
the public rights. The last step is centralization of the management; this entails local monitoring
of the cities using machine learning and artificial intelligence to promote efficient service
deployment (Anthopoulos, 2017). If these are effected, the possible implications of smart cities
will be unprecedented urban growth, improved transportation system, reliable data for logistic
purposes, efficient energy system, and infrastructure. Currently, there are few smart cities in the
world, including Singapore, Barcelona, London, San Francisco, Oslo among others. The major
focus will be on Singapore, and a detailed critical review of the smart city concept will be
presented while considering Singapore as a case study.
Undoubtedly, Singapore has positioned itself as the first smart city in the world going by the
global city performance index 2017. The diagrams below illustrate the design of Singapore
(Bhati et al., 2017)

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Fig 1: The Design of Singapore smart city (Bhati Et Al., 2017)
Fig 2: The Design of Singapore smart city (Bhati Et Al., 2017)