Basic smart city model
Abstract
Basic smart city model
Incoming article date: 12.11.2018Having appeared on fusion of two megatrends – urbanization and digital revolution – the smart city paradigm signifies transition to modern cities digital governance. The history of the origin and evolution of the smart city concept is shortly given with the role of high-tech giants and the world's largest international organizations in the process. The steps of the Russian Government, high-tech companies and an academic community, which contribute to the emergence of smart cities in Russia, have been presented. The IBM and The World Bank declare that smarter cities make their systems instrumented, interconnected or integrated and intelligent. These three ways to use of information and communications technology we have interpreted as a smart city model. According to the Smart Cities Council a smart city enhances its livability, workability and sustainability by collecting, communicating and “crunching” data. These three core functions of a smart city have been described here as the second model. Smart Cities Council Chairman Jesse Berst on the third-annual Smart Cities Week D.C. have presented four actions a smart city performs: it collects, communicates, computes and controls. We can consider now the process of improving decisions and behavior had been separated from “crunching” as a new stage. The KPMG sets the smart city principle: it operates on a 4-step process of capturing data, communicating, analyzing and acting. Although KPMG’s model appears earlier, we suggest the model presented by Jesse Berst to be considered as the basic smart city model. It emphasizes four substantial stages in the use of ICT in smart cities
Keywords: smart city, digital economy, sustainable development, digital technologies, urban management, smart city model, data, information