Smart City Digital Future Ahead. Cities are home to world's population and still the number is increasing - aim is to provide quality of life to all

      Аннотация: This book is about the urgent need of an hour to transform the phase from rural cities to the advanced ones, calling them the digitally advanced and smart. We aspire to do it for delivering better quality of life and at a sustainable cost. Smart cities provide a livable future ahead by providing digital solutions to mankind. A smart city is the one which increases efficiency, productivity and sustainability by improving quality of life of an increasing population and completing their demands. Data is being collected, stored and analyzed all the time, as all the devices around us keeps on collecting all the data from equipment such as vehicles, healthcare, wearable devices, management systems, infrastructural devices etc. A smart city is a designation given to only those cities that incorporates the information and communication technologies (ICT) to enhance quality of urban areas efficiently. Smart cities are made in a manner that they reduce resource consumption, wastage of energy resources and maintaining the overall cost and development in a judicious manner using smart technologies. This book tries to cover all the areas through which more smart cities can be developed.

Ключевые слова: Informatics, Smart Cities, digital solutions, digital solutions for cities, Information and Communication Technologies, ICT, city logistics, Quality of Life, smart technologies