Smart city technological base
Abstract
Smart city technological base
Incoming article date: 15.09.2017This paper describes the smart city definitions and expresses a view that smart city infrastructure consists of digital technologies and information and communication technologies. We make the point that the terms Urban Digitality, Urban Computing and Urban Informatics are used to describe smart city’s underlying digital technologies in English language scientific literature. The three-step American smart city model is analyzed. The model supposes a city to collect information about itself using sensors and other devices on the first stage. On the second stage collected data is transferred by means of wired and wireless networks to be analyzed on the third stage for better understanding of the present situation and what may happen in the future. Having found that the digital technologies of internet of things, social networks and mobility correspond to the stage of «Collect», so as the technology of cloud computing is brought into correlation with the stage of «Communicate» and, finally, that the digital technologies of big data and analytics are compared to the stage of «Crunch», we reveal the substance of smart city technological base.
Keywords: smart city, digital economy, crucial digital technologies, information and communication technologies, three-step smart city model, cloud computing, internet of things, social networks, mobility, big data