Digital Twin-Enabled Solutions for Smart City Applications

Abstract

The current advent of new technological advancements like the internet of things, artificial intelligence, and big data have not only ventured in applications management like regular transactional systems but also large applications like managing cities. The main objective of a “smart city” is the improvement in the living conditions of the people of all strata in the city. The city ideally should provide technological, innovative, and sustainable solutions by utilizing the resources. The smart city concept is providing a higher quality of life (QoL) for all its citizens. The areas which are mainly covered in the purview of smart city are governance, efficient mobility and public transport facility, healthcare facility, affordable housing for all citizens, digitization, and robust IT connectivity; along with focus on good sanitization, sufficient water supply, solid waste management, and electricity supply. In this chapter, the authors investigate the possibility and feasibility of the concept of digital twin in the applications of smart city.