scholarly journals Criteria for assessing action undertaken by border municipalities towards a “green smart city”

2021 ◽  
pp. 195-213
Author(s):  
Ewa Łaźniewska ◽  
Izabela Janicka ◽  
Tomasz Górecki
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Evaluation Criteria ◽  
Research Tool ◽  
Sustainable Growth ◽  
Living Standards ◽  
Systematic Research ◽  
Online Research ◽  
National Boundaries

The article presents a proposal for a research tool that might assess the ecological activity of municipalities, with particular emphasis on those that lie on national boundaries. With climate change, it has become necessary to take into account the principles of sustainable growth while maintaining high living standards in the long term. Systematic research on the action undertaken by municipalities in this area is a necessary requirement in the coming years. For this reason, the main directions and areas of research in the process of approaching the concept of a “green smart city” have been outlined. The available literature is limited to research in the field of smart cities and examines solutions for large urban agglomerations. The evaluation criteria of “ecological maturity” proposed in this paper are designed for small border municipalities. One may accept the thesis that due to their specificity, location, natural diversity and the opportunities for cooperation with a foreign partner that they offer, border municipalities can create a model of ecological behaviour in terms of a “green smart city”. This evolution requires support and monitoring for policymakers, and the proposed online research tool may reveal “ecological immaturities”, decisional errors or just plain negligence. One might only hope that, as a result of these indications, the recommendations will prove valuable for all local government units. On the other hand, a number of doubts and dilemmas are raised that researchers are unable to eliminate at this stage.

ICT and sustainability in smart cities management

2016 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 132-147 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francesco Bifulco ◽  
Marco Tregua ◽  
Cristina Caterina Amitrano ◽  
Anna D'Auria
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
City Planning ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Research Report ◽  
City Managers ◽  
Content Type ◽  
New Research ◽  
Local Agencies

Purpose – Contemporary debate is increasingly focused on ICT and sustainability, especially in relation to the modern configuration of urban and metropolitan areas in the so-called smartization process. The purpose of this paper is to observe the connections between smart city features as conceptualized in the framework proposed by Giffinger et al. (2007) and new technologies as tools, and sustainability as the goal. Design/methodology/approach – The connections are identified through a content analysis performed using NVivo on official reports issued by organizations, known as industry players within smart city projects, listed in the Navigant Research Report 2013. Findings – The results frame ICT and sustainability as “across-the-board elements” because they connect with all of the services provided to communities in a smart city and play a key role in smart city planning. Specifically, sustainability and ICT can be seen as tools to enable the smartization process. Research limitations/implications – An all-in-one perspective emerges by embedding sustainability and ICT in smart interventions; further research could be conduct through direct interviews to city managers and industry players in order to understand their attitude towards the development of smart city projects. Practical implications – Potential approaches emerging from this research are useful to city managers or large corporations partnering with local agencies in order to increase the opportunities for the long-term success of smart projects. Originality/value – The results of this paper delineate a new research path looking at the development of new models that integrate drivers, ICT, and sustainability in an all-in-one perspective and new indicators for the evaluation of the interventions.

scholarly journals Innovative Business Models for Smart Cities – A Systematic Research

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (12S) ◽  
pp. 339-343
Keyword(s):  
Business Model ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Best Practice ◽  
Business Models ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Systematic Research ◽  
City Development ◽  
Model Cities ◽  
Smart Technologies

Cities are the engines of growth for a nation. Smart technologies can help address the urban challenges and improve quality of life, economic opportunity, and liveability for citizens. Cities benefit from a transparent overview of best practice solutions to become smarter and from identifying best-suited solution providers. Companies that make cities smarter benefit from becoming more visible to cities around the globe with their newly developed or proven solutions. Innovative business models help accelerate the adoption of smart technologies. Various funding mechanisms have been used by cities to develop smart city projects. However, it has been revealed that the literature does not provide enough thoughts on these concepts. This paper provides an insight to the concept of innovative business models and the adoption of these in smart cities. Further the paper advances the understanding on the evolving business models and city procurement policies that could be used to accelerate smart city development. The paper seeks to address the question: What are the challenges faced by organisations and smart cities to develop a successful innovative business model? Cities have designed well defined strategies and are in the process of developing strategies for smart city. The paper address the challenges and functions of an innovative business model for development of smart cities.

scholarly journals Smart City Design Principles

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (VIII) ◽  
pp. 865-899
Author(s):  
Prachi Deora
Keyword(s):  
Natural Resources ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Design Principles ◽  
Sustainable Growth ◽  
City Design ◽  
Cost Efficient ◽  
The City

: A smart city should embrace the concept of sustainable growth, as it is an urgent need, and we cannot hesitate in coping with precious natural resources and plunge into crisis. To make the city run as a smart city, several things should be included in the situation. To make the city run as a smart city, several things should be included in the situation. In the long term, smart city visions that are inclusive, pluralistic, and citizen-centric, focused on developing services and resolving local challenges, would be the most effective and cost-efficient. They are most likely to avoid potential issues by strengthening both physical facilities and amenities, as well as the city’s sense of culture.

Smart City: The State of the Art, Definitions, Characteristics and Dimensions

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (8) ◽  
pp. 3525-3531 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hemalata Vasudavan ◽  
Saraswathy Shamini Gunasekaran ◽  
Sumathi Balakrishnan
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Living Standard ◽  
Systematic Research ◽  
Process Data ◽  
Sustainable Living ◽  
Scarce Resources ◽  
Physical Infrastructure ◽  
Multidimensional Process ◽  
Universal Standard

The notion of smart city embrace from urbanization with the unceasing boom of population in a city. The rising population in cities require high demand on living standard, facilities and social sustainability, in fact, it is challenging for the existing scarce resources and services to complement the citizen’s needs and demand. Thus, the model of smart city emerges as a solution to strategically integrate people, process, data and computing technology. Technologies such as Internet of Things, Big Data and Cloud Computing can be integrated with physical infrastructure to support efficient resourceful services and assure sustainable living standard for the citizens. To transform a city into a smart city it involves a complex and multidimensional process which rapidly changes according to the citizen’s needs. Conversely, there is a lack of universal standard route in being smart and various cities has implemented many methods in understanding a smart city. This paper aims to produce a systematic research to comprehend the fundamental concept of smart city’s characteristics and dimensions. This research presents various literature definitions of smart cities, followed by commonly discussed smart city characteristics and dimensions.

scholarly journals Smart Cities of the Future as Cyber Physical Systems: Challenges and Enabling Technologies

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (10) ◽  
pp. 3349
Author(s):  
Antonio Puliafito ◽  
Giuseppe Tricomi ◽  
Anastasios Zafeiropoulos ◽  
Symeon Papavassiliou
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Social Services ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Social Systems ◽  
Sustainable Growth ◽  
Information And Communications Technology ◽  
Urban Issues

A smart city represents an improvement of today’s cities, both functionally and structurally, that strategically utilizes several smart factors, capitalizing on Information and Communications Technology (ICT) to increase the city’s sustainable growth and strengthen the city’s functions, while ensuring the citizens’ enhanced quality of life and health. Cities can be viewed as a microcosm of interconnected “objects” with which citizens interact daily, which represents an extremely interesting example of a cyber physical system (CPS), where the continuous monitoring of a city’s status occurs through sensors and processors applied within the real-world infrastructure. Each object in a city can be both the collector and distributor of information regarding mobility, energy consumption, air pollution as well as potentially offering cultural and tourist information. As a consequence, the cyber and real worlds are strongly linked and interdependent in a smart city. New services can be deployed when needed, and evaluation mechanisms can be set up to assess the health and success of a smart city. In particular, the objectives of creating ICT-enabled smart city environments target (but are not limited to) improved city services; optimized decision-making; the creation of smart urban infrastructures; the orchestration of cyber and physical resources; addressing challenging urban issues, such as environmental pollution, transportation management, energy usage and public health; the optimization of the use and benefits of next generation (5G and beyond) communication; the capitalization of social networks and their analysis; support for tactile internet applications; and the inspiration of urban citizens to improve their quality of life. However, the large scale deployment of cyber-physical-social systems faces a series of challenges and issues (e.g., energy efficiency requirements, architecture, protocol stack design, implementation, and security), which requires more smart sensing and computing methods as well as advanced networking and communications technologies to provide more pervasive cyber-physical-social services. In this paper, we discuss the challenges, the state-of-the-art, and the solutions to a set of currently unresolved key questions related to CPSs and smart cities.

scholarly journals Introduction Of Energy Saving Principles: Technologies And Awareness, Latvian Experience

2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (6) ◽  
pp. 52-62 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Mutule ◽  
J. Teremranova
Keyword(s):  
Energy Saving ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Energy Efficient ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Current Situation ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
New Energy

Abstract The article presents an overview of the current situation of awareness of the Latvian citizens in the field of state-of-the-art energy-saving technologies. The authors present a wide range of data obtained as a result of a survey on the attitude of residents to new technologies and readiness to follow the development trends of a smart city. The article contains the analysis and recommendations for improving the efficiency of introducing new energy-saving and energy-efficient technologies into each household in order to create the most favourable conditions for the implementation of long-term plans for the development of smart cities in Latvia.

scholarly journals The Concept of a Smart City Communication in the Form of an Urban Mobile Application

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (17) ◽  
pp. 9703
Author(s):  
Patricia Janoskova ◽  
Katarina Repkova Stofkova ◽  
Martina Kovacikova ◽  
Jana Stofkova ◽  
Kristina Kovacikova
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Interface Design ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Living Standards ◽  
Gradual Improvement ◽  
Usability Tests ◽  
The City

The current state of technological progress offers extensive opportunities for the development of urban infrastructure and the construction of Smart Cities, but the city will only become intelligent if it raises the living standards of all citizens in it. The Smart City uses information and communication technologies to improve its functionality and long-term sustainability and to increase the living standards of its citizens. In this context, it is necessary to address the issue of mutual communication between the city and the citizen and its implementation. The aim of the paper is to design a suitable smart solution that would streamline two-way communication between the city and its citizens. This solution is an urban mobile application, which is also a simple and yet sufficiently effective solution for the transformation of cities into Smart Cities. The main benefit is the implementation of research assessing the requirements of the citizens of a particular city for the services and functions that the application should offer. After analysing the results, a specific urban application design was processed using User Interface and User Interface design. The proposal consists of seven consecutive phases. All phases were completed in solving the design and the result can be seen in the resulting interactive prototype, which was finally tested by authors and random users representing all age categories. The results of the prototype usability tests enabled a gradual improvement of the solution, which culminated in the confirmation of its effectiveness.

scholarly journals A Cross-Reading Approach to Smart City: A European Perspective of Chinese Smart Cities

Smart Cities ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 26-52 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eleonora Riva Sanseverino ◽  
Raffaella Riva Sanseverino ◽  
Enrico Anello
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Development Project ◽  
Catching Up ◽  
City Model ◽  
The Many ◽  
Planning Capacity ◽  
Holistic Vision

The present study, after a literature review of the smart city definitions and ranking tools in Europe and in China, presents a cross-reading approach to the Chinese smart cities concept and implementation. It is indeed nowadays mandatory to re-convert cities in sustainable and smart ecosystems and this can be done with different approaches. In this frame, the role of ICT—the glue of the smart city concept—is central and pervasive. The Smart city model could be a way to reverse the actual trend of cities, re-defining an integrated approach between tangible and intangible infrastructures of cities. Future cities are influenced by two main different visions with different connotations that come along with the planning capacity and with the ability of countries to follow a coherent and sustainable development project. European approach for planning is quite consolidated and based on a long term holistic vision, while Chinese vision is catching up with the dramatic speed of urbanization, deploying critical infrastructures in most cases without a long-term view. On the other hand, Chinese projects are in some cases exemplary for Europe where many constraints and regulatory issues put a strong limitation on the many possible implementations.

scholarly journals Co-producing smart cities: A Quadruple Helix approach to assessment

2021 ◽  
pp. 096977642110160
Author(s):  
Krassimira Paskaleva ◽  
James Evans ◽  
Kelly Watson
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Third Sector ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Quadruple Helix ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Sustainable City ◽  
Third Sector Organisations ◽  
Innovation Approach

Cities are increasingly expected to bring urban stakeholders together to deploy smart solutions that address urban challenges and deliver long-term positive impacts. Yet, existing theory and practice struggle to explain how such impacts can be achieved, measured or evidenced. This paper makes two major contributions. Firstly, the paper shows how the Quadruple Helix (QH) innovation approach can be used as the basis for co-producing smart city projects in order to better capture their impacts. In doing so we present a synthesis of current smart city and QH literatures to argue that assessment criteria and indicators must be co-produced with the full set of smart city stakeholders to ensure relevance to context and needs. Secondly, we present an example of a co-produced monitoring and assessment framework and methodology, developed to capture and measure the impacts of smart and sustainable city solutions with the stakeholder teams involved in the European Union Triangulum smart city programme. The paper draws on experiences working with 27 smart city demonstration projects involving public, private and third-sector organisations and communities across Manchester (United Kingdom), Eindhoven (The Netherlands) and Stavanger (Norway). We show how involving QH stakeholders in co-producing impact assessment improves the ability of projects to deliver and measure impacts that matter to cities and citizens. We conclude with a series of lessons and recommendations intended to be of use to the range of organisations and communities currently involved in smart city initiatives across Europe and the world.

scholarly journals Smart Cities Landscape and Urban Planning for Sustainability in Brno City

Land ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (8) ◽  
pp. 870
Author(s):  
Jitka Fialová ◽  
Dastan Bamwesigye ◽  
Jan Łukaszkiewicz ◽  
Beata Fortuna-Antoszkiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Sustainable City ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
Energy And Environment ◽  
Smart Governance ◽  
The City ◽  
City Models

This study aimed to explore the case study of Brno city regarding smart city models. We analyzed Brno considering smart and sustainable city elements, i.e., smart mobility/public transport, smart technology, smart people, smart governance, smart economy, smart living, and smart environment based on transport, energy, and environment referred herein as the smart city and sustainability model. Therefore, we investigated a case study of Brno city in the Czech Republic. We used qualitative techniques such as case study, exploration, observation, and description. We analyzed and comprehended the trends in the various features of smart city and sustainable development of the city of Brno. The findings showed that Brno city is doing its best to maintain smart city models through its governance organs and structures. The city is also working hard to improve some of the aspects that are still lagging. The ongoing developments and the future ones are based on strategic planning for both the short term and long term such as Brno2023, Brno2030, and Brno2050. It was found that Brno has a very well-planned transport system and is integrated with other aspects such as technology, energy, such as the electricity that moves the trolleybuses and trams, and environment. We strongly conclude that even though Brno city still struggles to achieve total sustainability, it is still a model and reflection of a smart and sustainable city. Finally, we noted that Brno city has very good plans and vision the “DNA” of a smart city. However, the implementation still suffers political willingness.

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