Under the smart cities banner I have seen street lights that can be turned on/off as ambient lighting changes. Sensors in parking bays that can broadcast availability to motorists looking for a parking space.
Both laudable and important but in themselves just the application of sensors to improve service and not "Smart Cities".
Smart Cities involve a top-to-bottom cultural and digital transformation by central/local government, residents, businesses, visitors.... Good comment on three such cities.
And the integration of:
- analytics- better decision making,
- complex and cross organisation data,
- Structured & Unstructured
- Historic, current and predicted
- Batch and Real-time
- Location Intelligence
- IoT
- Machine learning
- AI
- Augmented Intelligence
Smart sensors are part of what makes a city smart. But recent visits to Berlin and Barcelona suggest that ground-up, collaborative efforts by citizens and entrepreneurs are the essential ingredients to turn a smart city into a truly compelling place to call home.
http://www.straitstimes.com/opinion/sensors-alone-dont-make-a-city-smart-people-do
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