Word of the Day: smart city

Word of the Day Daily updates on the latest technology terms |February 7, 2017

smart city A smart city is a municipality that uses technology to increase operational efficiency, disseminate information to residents and visitors and improve the quality of government services. Adoption of the smart city concept is being driven by emerging technologies and trends such as automation, machine learning and the Internet of Things. The push to create smart cities is also being spurred on by environmental concerns about wasting energy and social concerns such as citizen safety.   Theoretically, any area of city management can be incorporated into a smart city initiative, including such things as water usage, infrastructure design, emergency response, parking spot availability and snow removal. For example, some city planners and managers are using sensor technology and advanced data analytics tools to monitor, analyze and optimize the way traffic flows on city streets and ensure that public transportation supply meets user demand. Data democratization is a key component of the smart city concept. Advocates of smart city projects maintain that making large municipal data sets available to citizens will increase civic engagement and enable residents to develop new ways to use the data a city collects. Opponents worry that city managers will not keep data privacy top of mind and handle the huge amount of data that citizens produce on a daily basis sensitively. Quote of the Day "Dubai has emerged as one of the few places in the Middle East to offer smart city benchmarks, and its evolution will be closely watched." - Edward Banda   Trending Terms control network advanced analytics database management system strategic innovation Internet of Everything data democratization   Learning Center The evolution of smart Dubai Aisha Bin Bishr, director general at Smart Dubai Office, discusses how Dubai is evolving as a smart city with the support of local telecoms provider Du. Building a smart city: It takes a village Building a smart city in which government, businesses and residents will prosper requires just the right mix of vendors, technologies and standards. Three steps towards a hierarchy of needs for smart cities Smart cities face challenges around network connectivity, standardisation and data governance, say IoT experts, and these needs must be met for them to flourish. Tel Aviv: A smart city where community engagement is the measure of success Like many locations across the world, Tel Aviv is using the latest technologies to create a smart city. Get smart about data integration for a truly smart city To avoid ending up siloed, city leaders should plan ahead and create a blueprint of how they want data to integrate and flow in their smart city. Writing for Business In the United States, smart city deployments are often funded as pilots, _______ this is not always made clear to taxpayers. A. though B. although Answer       Stay In Touch For feedback about any of our definitions or to suggest a new definition, please contact me at: mrouse@techtarget.com   Visit the Word of the Day Archives and catch up on what you've missed!   FOLLOW US About This E-Newsletter This e-newsletter is published by the TechTarget network. To unsubscribe from Whatis.com, click here. Please note, this will not affect any other subscriptions you have signed up for. TechTarget, Whatis, 275 Grove Street, Newton, MA 02466. Contact: webmaster@techtarget.com Copyright 2016 TechTarget. All rights reserved.