SMART CITY- SMART LIVES

Suresh Sahu

Abstract: The concept of smart city is a revolution in itself. Due to constraint in resources, there might be problem in providing services to the residents in future, so maintain a standard of living for growing population, necessity of smart city has aroused. This paper aims at describing the word smart along with its objectives. A Smart city mainly comprises of four pillars of infrastructure i.e. Institutional, Physical, Social and Economic Infrastructure, on which entire city is developed. In past few years, the different aspects of urban smartness is reviewed and compared with traditional cities to know how feasible it is in the respective cities. Smart City is defined on basis of Smart Transport, Smart Health, Smart Retail, Smart Factory, Smart Home and Smart Fitness which are known as the Elements of Smart City. A city to be known as smart city requires fulfilling certain criteria which has been discussed in detail in the paper.To support this information some images and few examples have been given.

Keywords: Pillars of Smart City, Elements of Smart City, Bench Mark of Smart City

DOI: https://doi.org/10.15623/ijret.2016.0532049