A Study on Integration of ICT in Smart Cities

摘要

A smart city is a place where people would live with improved quality of life. For a smart city, its subsystems like energy, transport system, hospital, education, water supply, etc. need to be interconnected to make smart use of city assets and resources. Information and communication technology (ICT) enables these subsystems for making interconnections. Various ICT solutions already have been proposed and lot of work is going on to identify new solutions. A study is done with an objective to understand present integration of ICT solutions in smart city and how the ICT technology is enabling the interconnection with the help of real world example. The study also incorporates identification new opportunities of integration of ICT solutions in smart city such that people would get a sustainable and liveable place with reduced environmental and climate footprints.