Smarter Cities and Their Innovation Challenges
Autor: | Colin Harrison, Milind Naphade, Jurij R. Paraszczak, Robert J. T. Morris, Guruduth Banavar |
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Rok vydání: | 2011 |
Předmět: |
Strategic planning
Information privacy Process management General Computer Science Status quo Computer science business.industry media_common.quotation_subject Interoperability Innovation management Computer security computer.software_genre Renewable energy Return on investment Urbanization business computer media_common Building automation |
Zdroj: | Computer. 44:32-39 |
ISSN: | 0018-9162 |
Popis: | The transformation to smarter cities will require innovation in planning, management, and operations. Several ongoing projects around the world illustrate the opportunities and challenges of this transformation. Cities must get smarter to address an array of emerging urbanization challenges, and as the projects highlighted in this article show, several distinct paths are available. The number of cities worldwide pursuing smarter transformation is growing rapidly. However, these efforts face many political, socioeconomic, and technical hurdles. Changing the status quo is always difficult for city administrators, and smarter city initiatives often require extensive coordination, sponsorship, and support across multiple functional silos. The need to visibly demonstrate a continuous return on investment also presents a challenge. The technical obstacles will center on achieving system interoperability, ensuring security and privacy, accommodating a proliferation of sensors and devices, and adopting a new closed-loop human-computer interaction paradigm. |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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