Cloud Based Big Data Analytics for Smart Future Cities

Khan, Zaheer; Anjum, Ashiq; Kiani, Saad Liaquat

doi:10.1109/ucc.2013.77

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“…These characteristics include sustainability, resilience, governance, enhanced quality of life, and intelligent management of natural resources and city facilities. There are well-defined components of the smart city, such as mobility, governance, environment, and people as well as its applications and services such as healthcare, transportation, smart education, and energy [2]. To facilitate such applications and services large computational and storage facilities are needed.…”

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Applications of big data to smart cities

Nuaimi¹,

Neyadi²,

Mohamed³

et al. 2015

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Many governments are considering adopting the smart city concept in their cities and implementing big data applications that support smart city components to reach the required level of sustainability and improve the living standards. Smart cities utilize multiple technologies to improve the performance of health, transportation, energy, education, and water services leading to higher levels of comfort of their citizens. This involves reducing costs and resource consumption in addition to more effectively and actively engaging with their citizens. One of the recent technologies that has a huge potential to enhance smart city services is big data analytics. As digitization has become an integral part of everyday life, data collection has resulted in the accumulation of huge amounts of data that can be used in various beneficial application domains. Effective analysis and utilization of big data is a key factor for success in many business and service domains, including the smart city domain. This paper reviews the applications of big data to support smart cities. It discusses and compares different definitions of the smart city and big data and explores the opportunities, challenges and benefits of incorporating big data applications for smart cities. In addition it attempts to identify the requirements that support the implementation of big data applications for smart city services. The review reveals that several opportunities are available for utilizing big data in smart cities; however, there are still many issues and challenges to be addressed to achieve better utilization of this technology.

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“…To top all that there are also the technical challenges requiring highly Fig. 1 Using the Cloud to store data generated from different components of a smart city [2] advanced technological solutions. Conversely, new and emerging technologies can help transform such challenges into opportunities.…”

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confidence: 99%

Applications of big data to smart cities

Nuaimi¹,

Neyadi²,

Mohamed³

et al. 2015

J Internet Serv Appl

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“…Ten papers [6,[30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38] offered a variety of nuanced theoretical discussions about the smart city, at times even calling for increased citizen participation, but the wants, needs, perspectives, and actual involvement of smart city residents was absent from these papers. The remaining set of ten papers [39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48] presented smart city technologies that were being, or had been designed and developed, without the involvement of local residents. From the deployment of "smart dust" [39] to the development of "cloud-based big data analytics" [43], the involvement of local residents seemed to be an unnecessary issue for many smart city technology developers.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…The remaining set of ten papers [39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48] presented smart city technologies that were being, or had been designed and developed, without the involvement of local residents. From the deployment of "smart dust" [39] to the development of "cloud-based big data analytics" [43], the involvement of local residents seemed to be an unnecessary issue for many smart city technology developers. As Khan, Anjum, and Kiani suggested, "at the core of smart cities is the collection, management, analysis and visualisation of huge amount of data that is generated every minute in an urban environment due to socioeconomic or other activities" [43].…”

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“…From the deployment of "smart dust" [39] to the development of "cloud-based big data analytics" [43], the involvement of local residents seemed to be an unnecessary issue for many smart city technology developers. As Khan, Anjum, and Kiani suggested, "at the core of smart cities is the collection, management, analysis and visualisation of huge amount of data that is generated every minute in an urban environment due to socioeconomic or other activities" [43]. Their view suggests that people are not at the core of the smart city; rather, people matter merely because of their ability to provide the data that drives the smart city.…”

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Where’s Wally? In Search of Citizen Perspectives on the Smart City

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This paper builds upon an earlier conference publication by the authors, offering contributions based on a systematic literature review and qualitative study. The paper begins by drawing attention to the paucity of "citizen"-more appropriately, "situated"-perspectives on what a smart city should and could be. The paper then addresses that absence by detailing a research project that explored how people in London, Manchester, and Glasgow responded to the smart city concept. Participants were asked questions regarding their prior familiarity with the phrase "smart city", their thoughts relating to what it means for a city to be smart, and what a "true" smart city might mean to them. The paper analyses and offers a synthesis of the responses collected throughout the research with the dominant rhetoric about smart cities, as identified through a recent systematic literature review, thereby providing a critical assessment of the values underlying the smart city. It aims to explore and present some of the expectations that citizens hold for their cities' politicians, policy makers, planners, academics, and technology companies. We believe that these perspectives from citizens can be used to inform responsible development, spatially and socially inclusive technologies, and ultimately more resilient cities.

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