8 Smart Cities Employing Big Data and Disruptive Technologies for Happy Living
Businesses today are progressively embracing and leveraging smart technologies to transform their business models and stay competitive in the marketplace. Conversely, city leaders are also thinking about to embrace those smart technologies in innovative ways to reshape public services.
Currently, cities are shifting beyond the pilot stage and utilizing data and emerging technologies like artificial intelligence, big data, etc., to deliver outcomes that are more germane and meaningful to residents. As cities are getting smarter, they are becoming more livable and responsive. In this context, smartphones playing a key role in the cities, putting abrupt information about transit, health services, traffic, safety alerts, and community news to millions of hands.
So, let’s dive more into depth how leaders started putting their minds towards designing the cities at large.
Smart cities put data and digital technology to work to make superior decisions and advance the quality of life the people live. More comprehensive, real-time data provides agencies the ability to monitor events as they unfold, comprehend how demand patterns are changing, and respond with faster, lower and cost-effective solutions.
By using data and artificial intelligence in innovative ways, these 8 cities are reshaping public services.
Remarked as the 28th-most populated city in the United States, operating 24-hours a day, Las Vegas is home to almost 650,000 dwellers. Hosting 43 million tourists each year, with its bustling casinos, the city officials recently turned to smart city data management to mitigate the pressure.
The city leveraged Hitachi’s Smart Spaces and Video Intelligence solution, an amalgamation of hardware and software that utilizes intelligent video and other IoT (Internet of Things) data. The city uses this solution to provide a single view of activity, operations, and safety issues with intelligence for real-time data and analysis, implementing resources more effectively.
Understand the city’s trend with an instance. If a pothole in the city is likely to develop in a given location, the city can generate heat maps of streets that can indicate and take steps to fix the issue before it starts to mutilate vehicles.
With a vast metropolis where modern skyscrapers, high-tech subways, and pop culture meet Buddhist temples, palaces, and street markets, Seoul is the capital of South Korea. In the city, waste management has become an area of interest and in today’s digital age, big data and IoT has become part of the solution that can ease the issues efficiently.
To do so, a smart waste management solutions maker Ecube Labs came into the city when the first smart city projects started to emerge in Korea. The company focuses on four main products – solar-powered waste bins which compact waste, fill-level sensors monitoring the quantity of waste in each bin, a big data platform collecting the information from the bins and a platform that automatically refines manual collection routes based on machine learning algorithms. These solutions bring massive cost-savings and a cleaner city.
The company’s products have now been installed in more than 150 locations in Seoul, from parks to department stores, leisure venues and tourist districts, according to Guillaume Weill, project director at Intralink.
Known for its artistic heritage, networks of canals and narrow houses with gabled facades, Amsterdam is the Capital of the Netherlands. Place of around 1,800 bridges in total that is far more than any other city in the world, the city has the world’ s first 3D-printed steel bridge. Named as the MX3D bridge, it uses industrial six-axis robots, proprietary software and welding machines that deposit stainless steel from thin, molten wire to develop the 40-foot-long smart pedestrian bridge spanning the Oudezijds Achterburgwal, one of the oldest canals in Amsterdam.
