Sustainable Energy: Challenges and Innovations in Smart Cities

This article discusses the challenges and innovations in creating smart cities, including the six key dimensions of smart cities and the difference between smart and liveable cities. It also explores sustainable resources for building design and facilities for students in university areas.

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Reflective Report
Smart and Liveable city
There are so many challenges in converting urban areas to the smart cities. Most of the countries
are changing with the technologies. Still, so many things are not implemented in the urban areas
because of few reasons, such as less understanding, lack of knowledge, cost effective, and less
knowledge about the sustainable engineering (Giffinger & Gudrunace, 2010).
I learnt about the six key dimensions of smart cities from the activities of the workshop, which
are following:
 Smart people
 Smart Economy
 Smart Mobility
 Smart Environment
 Smart living style
 Smart Governance
All these things are so necessary for the smart cities in the future.
In that workshop, different actives are providing lots of information about the smart cities. All
information is useful for me and it was a nice way of learning for me. I learnt about the different
attributes of the smart city’s from those activities, which are following:
 Smart city
 Intelligent city
 Sustainable city
 Knowledgeable city
 City 2.0
 Creative city
 Digital city
 Innovative city
 Universal city

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All are different attributes of a smart city. I also learnt about the difference between the smart
and liveable city versus intelligent cities. There are few differences in the both cities that,
synchronization of the information technology with the social infrastructure is converted into
smart and liveable city, rather than an intelligent system is handling different works of human
beings (Kosowatz, 2017).
Smart Accommodation for Students:
It was an intelligent idea that a university area converted for the accommodation for students
with the latest technologies, such as Internet of Things (IoT).
IoT is nothing but a integration of embedded systems with Internet. It is a highly secure and
advanced technology, which is used artificial intelligence and machine learning for the different
works. In that case, I learnt about the sustainable resources for the building design and facilities
for the students.
I had an awesome experience from the workshop – 1’s activities. There are many things matters
a lot for the development of smart cities. According to Eger, different communities are having
their cultural, ethnic, and artistic diversity. From new information infrastructures, they can create
a new age. Creative peoples are generating new patents and innovations for the society. In 21st
century, all cities are less with the economic, social, and political viability (Cohen, 2012). I learnt
about the smart cities from that video.Small residences are growing fast in coming years.
Therefore, there are so many challenges in front of engineers to maintain facilities according to
those changes. I learnt about the integrity of human with the technologies in a right manner.
Sustainability and integration makes a different city, which is liveable with a proper
environment. I also learnt about the city of the future. There are so many ideas for converting a
city into a smart city based on the characteristics of the city. Engineers are working on the
sustainable engineering for managing different resources in the smart cities. Proper arrangements
of resource make a city smarter. There is basic need for converting the source to the useful assets
for the smart city (Willke, 2007).
There are so many innovations for creating an accommodation for the students in the university
areas, such as online library.

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References
Cohen, B., 2012. What exactly is a smart city?. [Online]
Available at: www.fastcoexist.com/1680538/
[Accessed 12 December 2018].
Giffinger, R. & Gudrunace, H., 2010. Smart cities ranking: an effective instrument for the
positioning of cities?. Architecture, City and Environment, 4(1), pp. 7-25.
Kosowatz, J., 2017. 2017. Building a Smart City.. Mechanical Engineering Magazine Select
Articles, 139(1), pp. 32-37.
Willke, H., 2007. Willke, H. 2007. Smart governance: governing the global knowledge society.
2nd ed. new york: Campus Verlag.