What Are Smart Cities?

A Smart City is characterized by its ability to make evidence based decisions for resource allocation and interaction with its residents, businesses, and other levels of government. A Smart City leverages specific emerging technologies to:

• Organize data capture and management to enable integrated models for planning, and for sharing with outside entities (sensor data from IoT-connected devices, ranging from traffic lights to sanitation trucks)

• Augment the intelligence of human staff or automate tasks that previously required human judgment

• Communicate with constituents and partners (other government and commercial entities) using natural language interfaces to promote interaction

• Predict (anticipate) and respond to resident and business wants, needs, and behaviors based on analysis of historical and current contextual data (using predictive analytics and machine learning)

• Learn from data to continuously improve efficiency throughout government, and effectiveness for specific functions such as public safety, health, and social services

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Recent Research

Digital Cities—A Solid Foundation for Smart Cities

This Note discusses the strategies and tactics cities need to address to build out their applications and infrastructure to become true digital cities, laying the foundation to begin the journey to becoming a “smart city.”

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Smart Cities: Powered by Integrated Intelligence

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