BUI91001-2019-2 Smart Liveable Cities: Stage 3 Assessment

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BUI91001-2019-2 SMART LIVEABLE
CITIES - SHORT WRITTEN ANSWERS -
STAGE 3 FULL ASSESSMENT
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Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Understanding..................................................................................................................................3
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................4
References........................................................................................................................................5
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Introduction
A smart city can be understood as a city and its features that incorporate information and various
process associated with communication technology. This is used to enhance the quality of the
city and develop the performance associated with the services making substantial reduction in
consumption, wastage and overall costs (Lillevold, et. al., 2019). The discussion in this
assignment will be based on the study of Norway as one of the latest and best example of smart
cities in the world. This assignment will focus on the study of various factors that contributes to
the city and its development and also make effective outcomes from the study to have better
understanding of overall process. The study includes various steps taken by Norway authorities
to sustain the resources and develop better city for not only their residents but also the travellers.
The aim of the study is determine effective maturity model that has been adapted by the
authorities that best represent the city.
Understanding
The factors that has made Norway a smart city includes effective usage of Internet of Things
(IoT) and open data features to optimise the flow of energy, people and data associated with the
organization. In Norway the culture is very strong and innovation is high thus there are large
number of technologically literate citizens in public and private sectors. They have been using
stringent procedure to promote innovation and sustainability. The capital city of Norway is Oslo
that has been awarded as European Green Capital for 2019 thus showing great examples of
various methods adapted by the authorities and people to develop resources. By studying the
EIAM applications in Norway this has been noted that there buildings uses green technology
thus they uses 40% less energy as compared to others. The application of smart technology and
IoT can drastically help in the collection of sensory data that can help in identification of areas of
distortion and automatically control lighting, heating and cooling in the environment and deliver
them wherever they are needed. In a process to adapt technology Norway is very quick as they
have technologies like Statsbygg which is responsible for all government-funded construction
projects and has been helping in the operations and resources associated with the overall needs
and associated features in order to develop an effective way to deal with the construction.
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Taking the example of mobility Oslo has been one of the most famous city to promote green
transport in the country (Kamel, et. al., 2014).
The maturity model that has been identified in Norway is Smart city liveable index.
Figure 1: Smart city liveable index
(Source: Researchgate, 2012)
The overall smarty city concept of Norway is based on the idea to welfare the demographics and
the liveability index of the country. They have adapted green transportation like cycling and car
pools in daily life and have adapted green building ideas for conservation of resource and
maintain air quality. They have develop technology to educate children and has used these
features in colleges and schools. Application on phones has been used to diagnose medical
emergency and make changes in the process to identify the needs of the people. The smart city
concept also includes good housing options and safe environment for people. This also includes
making changes in the socio cultural outlook and adapting values to serve all the people in
community. In order to make the country smarter and more liveable the concept of open data has
been used in the process in order to better public sector platform for all. The data is available in
different sectors like environment, health, geography, agriculture, traffic and demographics to be
used by all. The example can be car sharing companies and them using traffic data to provide
better transport. All these features has made Norway a future of smart cities and an example to
look upon (Tan, et. al., 2016).
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Conclusion
This has been highlighted from the assessment that smart city is not just a simple definition but
an applied concept to the community. This has helped in the development of smart city concept
as per the nature and comfort associated with the people living in there. The analysis helped in
developing various features associated with smart city needs and steps taken by the authorities to
maintain and develop it like that.
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References
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sustainable local transformation’, Local Environment, vol. 24, no. 4, pp. 329–341.
https://www-tandfonline-com.ezproxy.scu.edu.au/doi/full/10.1080/13549839.2019.1567481
Kamel Boulos, Maged N, Tsouros, Agis D & Holopainen, Arto 2015, ‘“Social, innovative and
smart cities are happy and resilient”: insights from the WHO EURO 2014 International Healthy
Cities Conference’, International Journal of Health Geographics, vol. 14, no. 1, p. 3.
https://ij-healthgeographics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1476-072X-14-3
Tan, Khee Giap & Kaur, Sujata 2016, ‘Measuring Abu Dhabi’s liveability using the global
liveable city index (GLCI)’, World Journal of Science, Technology and Sustainable
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