Enabling technologies and sustainable smart cities

Ahad, Mohd Abdul; Paiva, Sara; Tripathi, Gautami; Feroz, Noushaba

doi:10.1016/j.scs.2020.102301

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“…Constructive measures and standards (in history) for preventing and delaying epidemic diseases mainly include: water and sewerage systems in urban and rural areas (separation of rain and sewage) ( Sheela et al, 2017 ; Zhu & Chang, 2020 ), residential spacing related to the health of sunlight, the layout of cities and buildings relating to ventilation orientation. Nowadays, green building, ecological city, healthy city and other related theories and practical exploration have come into the world ( Li, Yi et al, 2020 , Li, Sun et al, 2020 ; Li, Chow et al, 2020 ; Ahad, Paiva, Tripathi, & Feroz, 2020 ) ( Lilis, Conus, Asadi, & Kayal, 2017 ). For the post-epidemic era, urban development needs to be optimally formulated based on multiple objectives, through establishing emergency control mechanisms, balancing short-term costs and long-term benefits, giving appropriate financial support, and building a comprehensive and integrated prevention system for urban disaster.…”

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Vision of China’s future urban construction reform: In the perspective of comprehensive prevention and control for multi disasters

Wang

2021

Sustainable Cities and Society

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Highlights Reform of urban design regulations required considering multi disasters’ prevention A integrated prevention system to be established based on multiple objectives’ optimization The equilibrium of disaster occurrence probability and stop loss cost Providing reference for the prevention and control of cities epidemic and urban disasters

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Vision of China’s future urban construction reform: In the perspective of comprehensive prevention and control for multi disasters

Wang

2021

Sustainable Cities and Society

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“…Although during recent years, several outstanding studies have been conducted assessing the impact of smart measures in regard of carbon reduction targets (e.g. Ahad et al, 2020), more studies with a practical approach are still needed in order to determine which of the smartness aspects can serve as useful. One important topic that should be futher studied is the environmental impact caused by the use of smart technogolies.…”

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Pleasure is the profit - The adoption of solar PV systems by households in Finland

Karjalainen

Ahvenniemi

2019

Renewable Energy

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“…The environmental dimension involves various aspects of urban context such as: Waste management, capable of providing real-time type and quantity of waste via cloud solutions, to optimize time and resources [ 10 , 134 ]. With the development of new technology devices, electronic waste (e-waste) represents an environmental and health challenge due to its difficult disposal and potential impacts on the environment.…”

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Understanding Sensor Cities: Insights from Technology Giant Company Driven Smart Urbanism Practices

D’Amico

L’Abbate

Liao

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Sensors

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The data-driven approach to sustainable urban development is becoming increasingly popular among the cities across the world. This is due to cities’ attention in supporting smart and sustainable urbanism practices. In an era of digitalization of urban services and processes, which is upon us, platform urbanism is becoming a fundamental tool to support smart urban governance, and helping in the formation of a new version of cities—i.e., City 4.0. This new version utilizes urban dashboards and platforms in its operations and management tasks of its complex urban metabolism. These intelligent systems help in maintaining the robustness of our cities, integrating various sensors (e.g., internet-of-things) and big data analysis technologies (e.g., artificial intelligence) with the aim of optimizing urban infrastructures and services (e.g., water, waste, energy), and turning the urban system into a smart one. The study generates insights from the sensor city best practices by placing some of renowned projects, implemented by Huawei, Cisco, Google, Ericsson, Microsoft, and Alibaba, under the microscope. The investigation findings reveal that the sensor city approach: (a) Has the potential to increase the smartness and sustainability level of cities; (b) Manages to engage citizens and companies in the process of planning, monitoring and analyzing urban processes; (c) Raises awareness on the local environmental, social and economic issues, and; (d) Provides a novel city blueprint for urban administrators, managers and planners. Nonetheless, the use of advanced technologies—e.g., real-time monitoring stations, cloud computing, surveillance cameras—poses a multitude of challenges related to: (a) Quality of the data used; (b) Level of protection of traditional and cybernetic urban security; (c) Necessary integration between the various urban infrastructure, and; (d) Ability to transform feedback from stakeholders into innovative urban policies.

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Enabling technologies and sustainable smart cities

Cited by 388 publications

References 67 publications

Vision of China’s future urban construction reform: In the perspective of comprehensive prevention and control for multi disasters

Vision of China’s future urban construction reform: In the perspective of comprehensive prevention and control for multi disasters

Pleasure is the profit - The adoption of solar PV systems by households in Finland

Understanding Sensor Cities: Insights from Technology Giant Company Driven Smart Urbanism Practices

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