A smart city is an ideology which uses digital technologies
or information and communication technologies to enhance quality and
performance of urban services, to reduce costs and resource consumption, and to
engage more effectively and actively with its citizens. A city equipped with
basic infrastructure to give a decent quality of life, a clean and sustainable
environment through application of some smart solutions.
They are primarily developed with the goal of improving the
urban flow management and allowing real time responses to challenges, thereby
prepared to respond to challenges with a manageable relationship with its
citizens. Smart-cities mostly involve the use of new age Internet technologies
promoting cloud-based services, real-world user interfaces, use of smart phones
and smart meters, networks of sensors and RFIDs, and more accurate
communication systems based on the semantic web, that open new ways to
collective action and collaborative problem solving.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi had announced his vision to set
up 100 smart cities across the country soon ever since his government was sworn
into power last year. Since then a race has been on among cities to land on the
list that the ministry of urban development is compiling. The 100 smart cities
mission intends to promote adoption of smart solutions for efficient use of
available assets, resources and infrastructure. One familiar example of an
Indian Smart City can be seen in Delhi, in the Delhi L Zone Smart-City, which
is aimed at facilitating the growing need of housing in Delhi.
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