scholarly journals Smart City in Practice: Learn from Taipei City

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 50-59
Author(s):  
Muhammad Iqbal
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Smart Transportation ◽  
Smart Building ◽  
Smart Healthcare ◽  
Taipei City ◽  
Smart Education ◽  
Smart Mobility ◽  
Smart Governance

The main aspects of building a smart city according to Frost and Sullivan in 2014 are smart governance, smart technology, smart infrastructure, smart healthcare, smart mobility, smart building, smart energy and smart citizens. The smart city's purpose is to form a comfortable, safe city and strengthen its competitiveness. Based on these indicators, Taipei City can become one of the cities with the best Smart City implementation globally. This article uses a qualitative approach with literature review techniques in data collection. This study's findings indicate that the Smart Education, Smart Transportation, Smart Social Housing and Smart Healthcare policies are essential policies in supporting the successful implementation of smart cities in Taipei City. The four main pillars in implementing smart city in Taipei City have integrated Artificial intelligence and big data in smart city governance in Taipei City.

Multi-criteria analysis of smart cities in Poland

2020 ◽  
Vol 93 (2) ◽  
pp. 163-181
Author(s):  
Karolina Ogrodnik
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Multiple Criteria Decision Making ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
Multiple Criteria ◽  
Sustainable Solutions ◽  
Models Of Development ◽  
Promethee Method ◽  
Smart Mobility ◽  
Smart Governance

The primary objective of the work is to analyze the largest Polish cities in terms of the smart city indicators, which currently form one of the most important models of development. Special attention was paid to smart and sustainable solutions for public transport and infrastructure. An MCDM (Multiple Criteria Decision Making)/MCDA (Multiple Criteria Decision Analysis) method was used. First, the selected method (PROMETHEE) allowed to indicate the smartest and least smart cities with respect to six main dimensions: smart economy, smart people, smart governance, smart mobility, smart environment, and smart living. Secondly, the PROMETHEE method allowed compilation of a final ranking, taking into account publicly available indicators of the smart city concept. Finally, 43 smart city indicators that are available in public statistics were proposed. In addition to the primary goal of the study, i.e., diagnosis of Polish cities in terms of the global concept of smart city, a critical analysis of the availability of necessary statistical indicators was also carried out, indicating potential directions for database development.

scholarly journals MAIN CRITERIA IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SMART CITIES DETERMINED USING ANALYTICAL METHOD

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zurinah Tahir ◽  
Jalaluddin Abdul Malek
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Strategic Decisions ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
Technological Infrastructure ◽  
The Status ◽  
Smart Mobility ◽  
Smart Governance

A smart city is one that is highly developed, innovative, environment-friendly, and incorporates relevant aspects of the economy, technology, mobility, quality of life and other aspects that contribute to the well-being of its residents. To achieve the status of a smart city, several requirements, criteria or indicators need to be considered. Strategic decisions by planners of a smart city play an important role in determining how the city uses resources and opportunities through the harnessing of modern technology to build a framework of innovation that nurtures a healthy society in an economy that is dynamic and environment-conscious. Smart cities focus on various elements of humanity, learning, the environment, technological infrastructure, social development, and urban growth. The aim of this study is to examine these requisites of a smart city, and to use the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) methodology in assigning weightage to each element that is considered essential to its development. Smart environment and smart mobility were found to be the top two important factors in the successful building of a smart city. The actual values that shape smart cities are based on a balance of factors such as smart environmental practices, smart governance, smart living, smart mobility, smart people, and smart economy. These principal key elements work together to exploit the technologies that help bring about the realization of a smart city.

scholarly journals Big Data Dreams and Reality in Shenzhen: An Investigation of Smart City Implementation in China

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 205395172110451
Author(s):  
Jelena Große-Bley ◽  
Genia Kostka
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Digital Systems ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
City Development ◽  
Technical Problems ◽  
Smart Systems ◽  
Smart Governance

Chinese cities are increasingly using digital technologies to address urban problems and govern society. However, little is known about how this digital transition has been implemented. This study explores the introduction of digital governance in Shenzhen, one of China's most advanced smart cities. We show that, at the local level, the successful implementation of digital systems faces numerous hurdles in long-standing data management and bureaucratic practices that are at least as challenging as the technical problems. Furthermore, the study finds that the digital systems in Shenzhen entail a creeping centralisation of data that potentially turns lower administrative government units into mere users of the city-level smart platforms rather than being in control of their own data resources. Smart city development and big data ambitions thereby imply shifting stakeholder relations at the local level and also pull non-governmental stakeholders, such as information technology companies and research institutions, closer to new data flows and smart governance systems. The findings add to the discussion of big data-driven smart systems and their implications for governance processes in an authoritarian context.

scholarly journals Mobile Applications in China's Smart Cities

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (6) ◽  
pp. 1-18
Author(s):  
Bingqian Zhang ◽  
Guochao Peng ◽  
Fei Xing ◽  
Si Chen
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Interface Design ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Smart Transportation ◽  
Smart Healthcare ◽  
Global Trend ◽  
Functional Interface

Aligned with the global trend of smartness, China has invested heavily in over 700 smart city projects across over 500 cities. Hundreds of smart city apps, initiated by local authorities, have so emerged in the daily lives of Chinese citizens, but anecdotal evidence showed that these official apps have many problems and deficiencies. This study captures a snapshot of current development and problems of official smart city apps in China. A total of 333 such apps, together with 15754 comments, were collected, reviewed and analyzed. The results showed that China’s smart city apps fall into three application areas, i.e. smart transportation, smart healthcare, and smart livelihood, of which each provides some promising features and services. However, a range of functional, interface, design, usage and service-related problems were found in these apps. This paper concluded that further to the very efforts on infrastructure and hardware, local authorities in China and worldwide need to pay more attention to smart apps, in order to maximize potential return of their smart city investments.

scholarly journals EXPLORING SMART CITY RESEARCH FROM INFORMATION SYSTEMS AND MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVES

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario Jadrić ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Focal Points ◽  
Research Subjects ◽  
Smart Mobility ◽  
Mining Procedure ◽  
Smart Governance ◽  
Scientific Fields ◽  
Additional Interpretation

Research in the smart city domain is characterised by distinct multidisciplinarity. The reason for this is the broadness of the domain, classified into six key categories: smart governance, smart people, smart living, smart mobility, smart economy, and smart environment, all focal points of research in separate scientific fields. Also, many researchers argue about the best approach and steps in the development of smart cities highlighting different technological, economic, or sociological aspects of research. This paper aims to explore and clarify the differences in smart city research from two different perspectives - information systems and management. Abstracts from almost 5.000 papers from the WoS database and more than 7.000 papers from the Scopus database were downloaded and analysed. Publications categorised into two perspectives were then analysed descriptively, including data about the number of papers, year of publication, and country of publishing. Furthermore, automated text mining procedure was performed for additional interpretation of attributes and occurrences from the two observed perspectives. The use of six smart city categories as keywords within each set was also analysed and visualised. The results indicate clear differences in both research approaches and research subjects between the two perspectives.

scholarly journals Mobile Applications in China’s Smart Cities

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (6) ◽  
pp. 0-0
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Interface Design ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Smart Transportation ◽  
Smart Healthcare ◽  
Global Trend ◽  
Functional Interface

Aligned with the global trend of smartness, China has invested heavily in over 700 smart city projects across over 500 cities. Hundreds of smart city apps, initiated by local authorities, have so emerged in the daily lives of Chinese citizens, but anecdotal evidence showed that these official apps have many problems and deficiencies. This study captures a snapshot of current development and problems of official smart city apps in China. A total of 333 such apps, together with 15754 comments, were collected, reviewed and analyzed. The results showed that China’s smart city apps fall into three application areas, i.e. smart transportation, smart healthcare, and smart livelihood, of which each provides some promising features and services. However, a range of functional, interface, design, usage and service-related problems were found in these apps. This paper concluded that further to the very efforts on infrastructure and hardware, local authorities in China and worldwide need to pay more attention to smart apps, in order to maximize potential return of their smart city investments.

scholarly journals MAIN CRITERIA IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF SMART CITIES DETERMINED USING ANALYTICAL METHOD

2016 ◽  
Vol 14 (5) ◽  
Author(s):  
Zurinah Tahir ◽  
Jalaluddin Abdul Malek
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
Strategic Decisions ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
Technological Infrastructure ◽  
The Status ◽  
Smart Mobility ◽  
Smart Governance

A smart city is one that is highly developed, innovative, environment-friendly, and incorporates relevant aspects of the economy, technology, mobility, quality of life and other aspects that contribute to the well-being of its residents. To achieve the status of a smart city, several requirements, criteria or indicators need to be considered. Strategic decisions by planners of a smart city play an important role in determining how the city uses resources and opportunities through the harnessing of modern technology to build a framework of innovation that nurtures a healthy society in an economy that is dynamic and environment-conscious. Smart cities focus on various elements of humanity, learning, the environment, technological infrastructure, social development, and urban growth. The aim of this study is to examine these requisites of a smart city, and to use the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) methodology in assigning weightage to each element that is considered essential to its development. Smart environment and smart mobility were found to be the top two important factors in the successful building of a smart city. The actual values that shape smart cities are based on a balance of factors such as smart environmental practices, smart governance, smart living, smart mobility, smart people, and smart economy. These principal key elements work together to exploit the technologies that help bring about the realization of a smart city.

scholarly journals Smart Building Integration into a Smart City (SBISC): Development of a New Evaluation Framework

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 2190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rasa Apanaviciene ◽  
Andrius Vanagas ◽  
Paris A. Fokaides
Keyword(s):  
Smart Materials ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Evaluation Framework ◽  
Evaluation Methodology ◽  
Smart Buildings ◽  
Smart Building ◽  
Smart Mobility ◽  
Time Frames ◽  
The City

The aim of this study is to define the features that smart buildings should fulfil in order to be compatible with the overall context of the smart city and to introduce a new evaluation framework of Smart Buildings Integration into a Smart City (SBISC). By analysing scientific literature as well as existing international and local project examples, the features of smart buildings that are expected to be adopted in smart cities were identified. The SBISC evaluation methodology was developed and applied to a set of selected projects. The literature review revealed that the smart building and smart city concepts were developed in different time frames and by different stakeholders and, thus, need to be realigned. The most important aspect is to employ in a smart building all the functionalities proposed by the smart areas of the city and vice versa by enabling the recommended features of smart materials, smart building services, and smart construction to serve for the surrounding systems. Nine office buildings representing smart building concept in different smart cities built within the period 2007–2018 with a total area from 10,000 m2 to 143,000 m2 were selected for the analysis. The research of selected projects revealed that the smart buildings have more potential to become smarter by utilizing smart cities capabilities in the areas of smart energy, smart mobility, smart life, and smart environment. Smart cities are the most prominent trend in creating a cohesive environment.

scholarly journals IoT for Smart Cities: Machine Learning Approaches in Smart Healthcare—A Review

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (8) ◽  
pp. 218
Author(s):  
Taher M. Ghazal ◽  
Mohammad Kamrul Hasan ◽  
Muhammad Turki Alshurideh ◽  
Haitham M. Alzoubi ◽  
Munir Ahmad ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Machine Learning ◽  
Sensor Networks ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Healthcare Sector ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Learning Approaches ◽  
Smart Healthcare

Smart city is a collective term for technologies and concepts that are directed toward making cities efficient, technologically more advanced, greener and more socially inclusive. These concepts include technical, economic and social innovations. This term has been tossed around by various actors in politics, business, administration and urban planning since the 2000s to establish tech-based changes and innovations in urban areas. The idea of the smart city is used in conjunction with the utilization of digital technologies and at the same time represents a reaction to the economic, social and political challenges that post-industrial societies are confronted with at the start of the new millennium. The key focus is on dealing with challenges faced by urban society, such as environmental pollution, demographic change, population growth, healthcare, the financial crisis or scarcity of resources. In a broader sense, the term also includes non-technical innovations that make urban life more sustainable. So far, the idea of using IoT-based sensor networks for healthcare applications is a promising one with the potential of minimizing inefficiencies in the existing infrastructure. A machine learning approach is key to successful implementation of the IoT-powered wireless sensor networks for this purpose since there is large amount of data to be handled intelligently. Throughout this paper, it will be discussed in detail how AI-powered IoT and WSNs are applied in the healthcare sector. This research will be a baseline study for understanding the role of the IoT in smart cities, in particular in the healthcare sector, for future research works.

scholarly journals Making a Building Smart with a Co-Created and Continuously Evolving Enjoyable Service Entity—Insights from a Collaborative Study

Smart Cities ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Maaria Nuutinen ◽  
Eija Kaasinen ◽  
Jaana Hyvärinen ◽  
Airi Mölsä ◽  
Sanni Siltanen
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Collaborative Study ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Smart Services ◽  
Smart Building ◽  
Quality Of Urban Life

Buildings shape cities as those cities grow from and nurture people living and working within the built environment. Thus, the conceptualization of smart building should be brought closer to the smart city initiatives that particularly target ensuring and enhancing the sustainability and quality of urban life. In this paper, we propose that a smart building should be interlinked with a smart city surrounding it; it should provide good experiences to its various occupants and it should be in an ongoing state of evolving as an ecosystem, wherein different stakeholders can join to co-produce, co-provide and co-consume services. Smart buildings require a versatile set of smart services based on digital solutions, solutions in the built environment and human activities. We conducted a multiphase collaborative study on new service opportunities guided by a Design Thinking approach. The approach brought people, technology, and business perspectives together and resulted in key service opportunities that have the potential to make the buildings smart and provide enjoyable experience to the occupants who support their living and working activities in smart cities. This paper provides the resulting practical implications as well as proposes future avenues for research.

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