Managing a city entails diverse factors and cross organisation communication. A smart enabled city would facilitate the sharing of resource availability and enables data sharing and collection. With such information in hand one could take informed decisions for the betterment and smoother operation of  the community. Factors such as parking availability, pollution monitoring, air quality, street lighting automation, information displays, all benefit for an efficient, sustainable, healthy and safe environment.

With the availability of this data at hand - different organisations can direct their efforts toward the finetuning of their processes, making them more efficient and cost conscious. Efficiency will also lead to immediate problem solving and timely maintenance.

Smart City visions need to be holistic, pluralistic and citizen-centric, focusing on improving services and solving pressing urban issues.

Investing in technology for Smart Cities improves citizens’ quality of life.

Applications: 

• Outdoor air quality, pollution
• Indoor air quality
• Noise levels
• Water quality
• Floods, spills and leaks
• Parks and green areas
• Traffic and mobility
• Pedestrians traffic
• Social distance and capacity control
• Parking spaces
• Lighting
• Buildings
• Waste management
• Garbage trucks and containers
• Public service vehicles
• Public transport capacity
• LPG and other distribution Services
• Manhole and Service Access Monitoring
• Structural Health Monitoring

A city comprises of a huge amount of elements that has a direct impact on the quality of life. Managing such elements requires a means of monitoring and automating their function.

Using our ecosystem helps the administrators get a better picture of the status of the different components that make your city run smoothly and efficiently. Sensors deployed around the city will be measuring precise information which is collected by a central gateway which will feed a cloud service to reach the administrative teams to better their processes. The data collected will display any inefficiencies that are either acted upon automatically or by the administrators. This in turn will enable more efficient running of the daily city routine and improve the citizens quality of life. Such vast data collected from different cities can be viewed and compared to further increase the overall efficiency of a country. "Big Data" allows the central government to improve policy making by taking informed decisions based upon the collected dataset. Such data contributes towards the creation of  a new green economy and add the benefit of creating accountability where it matters.  

Citizens engage with smart city ecosystems in various ways using smartphones and mobile devices and connected cars and homes. Pairing devices and data with a city’s physical infrastructure and services can cut costs and improve sustainability.

Communities can improve energy distribution, streamline trash collection, decrease traffic congestion, and improve air quality with help from the IoT.

Together, these smart city technologies are optimizing infrastructure, mobility, public services, and utilities.

Example:

• Connected traffic lights receive data from pedestrian sensors and traffic flow, adjusting light cadence and timing to respond to real-time traffic, reducing road congestion.
• Connected cars can communicate with  electric vehicle (EV)charging docks and direct drivers to the nearest available spot.
• Smart garbage cans automatically send data to waste management companies and schedule pick-up as needed versus a pre-planned schedule.
• And citizens’ smartphone becomes their mobile driver’s license and ID card with digital credentials, which speeds and simplifies access to the city and local government services.