Technological Influences over Factors for Sustainability of Smart Cities

Abstract

Purpose: Emerging technologies have completely revolutionized the world and helped people getting connected to each other than ever before. Due to rise in population and urbanization, transformation of cities into Smart Cities is a necessity which can be fulfilled through Internet of Things and other emerging technologies.

Although the paper describes the kind of support given by emerging technologies to the development and measurements of smart cities worldwide, it gives emphasis to the infrastructural development and service deliveries of smart urban development in India based on its own standards.

Design Methodology/Approach: This research work was based on secondary data. The secondary data was collected from various journals, newspapers and annual reports such as World Population Review and World Economic Forum etc.

The methodology for this research work was [4] –

Parameters for measurement of smart cities development were set. For establishment of these parameters, 37 different journals, newspaper articles and annual reports were studied. These parameters are shown in Figure 4.

Establishment of elaborated sections for parameterizing Indian smart cities development was done and 12 essential parameters were established which are shown in Table 1 and Table 2.

Analysis of major contribution and influence of emerging technologies for development of smart cities was done. It is shown in table 3.

Critical analysis of measurement of Delhi as a smart city based on secondary data was done.

Finally, a conclusion for smart urban planning, based on the above steps, was constructed.

Findings: At the end critical analysis of Delhi as a smart city was done based on the same parameters of measurements. Rapid urbanisation in India has impacted the development of the capital city very negatively. The improvement needs public decision-makers, policy officials, technology developers and citizens of India to not only look for increasing infrastructure of the cities but also make policies for improvement of environmental sustainability and quality of life.

Originality Value: This research work is original.

Paper Type: Theme Based Paper