Urban Resilience and Inclusion of Smart Cities in the Transformation Process for Sustainable Development: Critical Deflections on the Smart City of Bhubaneswar in India

摘要

With the development of smart cities in the present scenario, a major change has been focused in the field of information and communication technology (ICT). One of the engineering consultant firms in UK Arup has expected the global market for a smart city to be valued up to 400 billion GBP by the year 2020. Building a smart city involves changes in engineering in multiple disciplines and several areas. The idea of a smart city is gaining momentum due to advancement of new technologies such as application of technology related to IoT, for instance, RFID (radio frequency identification), sensors used for environment, actuators, artificial intelligence, cloud computing, wearable sensors. The standard of living in smart cities are improved by involving the deep integration of ICT in every aspect of city life. The initiatives taken for the feasibility of a smart city will depend on an expansion in the expansion of big data with application of IoT in various areas [1].