Smart City Quiz Round 1C

Cities are now transforming from digital cities to smart cities, digital

Or intelligent cities that are more technology oriented equivalents of

Smart city concepts. A city becomes “smart” when it is instrumented,

Interconnected, adaptive, autonomous, learning, self-repairing, and

Robust. Parts of its infrastructure and facilities are digitally connected

And optimized by using ICT to deliver services to their citizens and other

stakeholders. The theory of smart cities understood from the perception

of technologies and components has some exact properties within the

wider cyber, digital, smart, intelligent cities texts. Intelligent cities,

or intelligent spaces more generally, refer to a wide range of electronic

and digital applications related to digital spaces of communities and

cities, for example smart grids, smart meters, and other infrastructure

for electricity, water supply, and waste management. Digital cities,

derived from digital representation of cities, mean a digital metaphor

of cities, and intelligent cities, derived from the new intelligence of

cities that represent collective and distributed intelligence. Another

related label is “cyber city”, derived from cybernetics, cyberspace,

city governance and control based on information feedback. The

term digital city has been used as an equivalent of “intelligent city”,

“knowledge-based city”, “information city”, “cyberville”, “wired city”,

and “electronic communities”.

What is your take on Intelligent, smart and digital Cities?

• Intelligent city is the technological computing and management network required for the smooth urbanization of physical urban components, residents, and other city participants.

• Smart City is the product of Digital City combined with the Internet of Things

• The Smart City is a city that is connected to the net and is equipped with technological platforms for information and communications management that can enable the Internet of Things.

• Smart, digital and intelligent cities are similar concepts but they are not exactly the same thing.

The Internet of things (IoT) describes physical objects (or groups of such objects) that are embedded with sensors, processing ability, software, and other technologies that connect and exchange data with other devices and systems over the Internet or other communications networks.

IoT-based technology offers advanced levels of services and practically change the way people lead their daily lives. Advancements in medicine, power, gene therapies, agriculture, smart cities, and smart homes are just a very few of the categorical examples where IoT is strongly established.

Explain how can we efficiently use IoT in smart city?

Traffic Management: Modern cities are struggling with traffic congestion, as the number of vehicles continues to grow. Smart solutions for traffic management tackle traffic issues and help eliminate traffic jams. For example: some systems monitor traffic and estimates the arrival time for the next group of cars to ensure that the traffic light is green at that moment. Smart traffic management solutions such as the adjusting of traffic lights to real road situations, able the resolution of one of the most vital modern city problems.

Suggest such kind of different strategies that can be implemented in traffic prone areas of India.

New cities are continuously joining the ranks of smart cities. According to the International Institute for Management Development (IMD) 2020 Smart Cities Index, 109 cities worldwide are implementing technology across five key areas: mobility, health and safety, governance, activities, and opportunities. In so doing, they are mitigating the shortcomings of urbanization and can be side to be smart. The top ten 2020 rankings by IMD are as follows:

Singapore, Helsinki, Zurich, Auckland, Oslo, Copenhagen, Geneva, Taipei City, Amsterdam, New York

Why does no city from India qualify for being one of the best smart cities in world? What factors do you think affect the development of cities in our country?

Smart education is "a model of learning adapted to new generations of digital natives." In comparison to traditional classroom teaching models, smart education is an interactive, collaborative and visual model, designed to increase student engagement and enable teachers to adapt to students' skills, interests and learning preferences.

How would you provide smart education in your smart city? Consider the present COVID condition also.

A city’s smartness is determined using a set of characteristics, including:

An infrastructure based around technology

Environmental initiatives

Effective and highly functional public transportation

Confident and progressive city plans

People able to live and work within the city, using its resources

Apart from this suggest some characteristics of smart city that you think are important

In response to the challenge of today's cities, can the smart city approach in low-tech countries also be a solution for their cities, or is it only for developed countries?