Abstract

Recent years have seen an increase in varied social and urban issues such as shortages, unequal resource allocations, and unpredictable weather and geopolitics. Advances in technology in both data management and collection (particularly from sensors and mobile devices), and Artificial Intelligence areas like Semantic Web and Natural Language Processing, present an unprecedented opportunity for addressing such social and urban problems without massive infrastructural investments. Within the context of an urban region, a ‘Smart City’ approach to these issues considers both the collective scope of individual problems and their interdependencies, and practical (including technological) steps that present a reasonable solution. In this chapter, we will describe both the scope of Smart Cities i.e. what defines a Smart City, according to various discussions in the literature, alternate definitions, nomenclatures …

Date

2020

Authors

Mayank Kejriwal

Book

Handbook of Big Geospatial Data

Pages

563-587

Publisher

Springer International Publishing