Munoth Navneet, Anilkumar Nagaich Anugrah, Gehlot Shubham
Department of Architecture and Planning, Maulana Azad National Institute of Technology, Bhopal, M. P India.
Practicing Urban Planner, Indore, India.
GeoJournal. 2022;87(Suppl 4):999-1016. doi: 10.1007/s10708-022-10704-6. Epub 2022 Jul 12.
The contemporary technological advancements of the twenty-first century are introducing paradigm shifts in every aspect of life. The "Smart City" concept has also brought the latest emerging technologies and their applications to the urban areas. The integration of Nano-technological devices collecting and transmitting data coupled with the availability and penetration of high-speed internet will only raise this potential by providing an easy way to receive and send real-time data more swiftly. The devices could also be connected with each other via the internet under the Internet of Things (IoT), making it possible to establish the machine to machine (M2M) communication between them. This large amount of urban Big Data can also deploy machine learning assisted techniques to ensure robust and precise urban analysis for getting significant insights and desired simulations ensuring the proper deployment as well as utilization of the phenomenon of Urban Intelligence. As the cities are entitled to become "Smart" in due course of time, these Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) will play a major role in improving the efficiency and effectiveness of urban services and management. Due to their highly versatile and adaptable nature, these technologies can be linked with different components of Smart City thereby enhancing the efficiency and capability of the existing urban systems. This paper discusses the emerging concept of the Internet of Things (IoT) and other associated technologies within the context of contemporary urban scenarios through relevant case studies. It further presents crucial insights based on the influence of these technologies as well as their associated challenges while also exploring the implications of the concepts like 'Super City' on the cities of tomorrow.
21世纪的当代技术进步正在给生活的方方面面带来范式转变。“智慧城市”概念也将最新的新兴技术及其应用引入了城市地区。纳米技术设备收集和传输数据，再加上高速互联网的可用性和普及，这一切将通过提供一种更快捷地接收和发送实时数据的简便方式，进一步提升这种潜力。这些设备还可以通过物联网（IoT）在互联网上相互连接，从而实现它们之间的机器对机器（M2M）通信。这些大量的城市大数据还可以采用机器学习辅助技术，以确保进行强大而精确的城市分析，从而获得有意义的见解和理想的模拟结果，确保城市智能现象的正确部署和利用。随着城市在适当的时候必然会变得“智能化”，这些信息通信技术（ICT）将在提高城市服务和管理的效率及效力方面发挥重要作用。由于其高度通用和适应性强的特性，这些技术可以与智慧城市的不同组件相连接，从而提高现有城市系统的效率和能力。本文通过相关案例研究，在当代城市场景的背景下讨论了物联网（IoT）及其他相关技术的新兴概念。它还基于这些技术的影响及其相关挑战给出了关键见解，同时探讨了“超级城市”等概念对未来城市的影响。
