Smart sustainable cities of the future: the untappec potential of big data analytics and context-aware computing for advancing sustainability.

摘要

It is well acknowledged that urban populations will increase exponentially. Global bodies like the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) are quite engaged with this issue, articulating the role of information and communication technologies (ICT). However, the basic tenets of such strategies need proactive planning and execution. Proactive planning that leads to sustainable urban areas is an unavoidable challenge for policymakers and planners. It needs systems thinking that argues in favor of a holistic approach by critically analyzing and evaluating past trends, cause-effect relationships, and patterns of exceptions in occurrences, recurrent events, and the way challenges are addressed. Proactive planning also includes present situations and linking behaviors to the past while predicting future behaviors. Such studies are not new in business situations that determine sustainable interventions based on holistic analyses (social, technical, economic, environmental, and ecological dimensions). Proactive planning examples from business argue for preventive actions and being prepared for unknown situations leading to sustainable actions and steady states. Smart cities are no different in this context; any intervention should have sustainable effects with steady states.