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Table 4 – Examples of city infrastructure applications

Infrastructure Example components

Real estate and  Synergies between energy efficiency, comfort and safety and security
buildings  Building as a network: Integration of multiple technologies (HVAC, lighting, plug
loads, fire, safety, mobility, renewable, storage, materials, IAQ, etc.)
 Software: Efficiency, automation and control, analytics and big data
management
Industrial and  Data interoperability
manufacturing  Sustainable production and zero emissions
 Networked sensors and cloud computing
 Factories of the future
Energy and  Smart grid and smart metering: Generation/distribution/measurement
utilities  Wireless communications
 Analytics and policies
 Load balancing, decentralization and co‐generation
Air, water and  Water information systems (WIS)
waste  Integrated water, waste and energy savings optimization schema
management  Sensor networks for water and air systems
Safety and  Video surveillance and video analytics
security  Seamless communication during natural and man‐made disasters
Health care  Smart hospitals
 Real‐time health care including analytics
 Home and remote health care including monitoring
 Electronic records management

Education  Flexible learning in an interactive learning environment
 Accessing world class digital content online using collaborative technologies
 Massive open online course (MOOC)

Mobility and  Intelligent transportation technologies in the age of smart cities
transportation  Traffic management: Monitoring and routing
 Real‐time linkage to emissions, traffic patterns, reduced fuel consumption

3.3 ICT infrastructure

There are a number of additional studies 48, 49, 50, 51 that suggest the existence of a series of key
dimensions and attributes for cities that are striving for "smartness" and sustainability. Throughout
these dimensions, there is a recognition of the essential aspects of an overarching ICT infrastructure
that enables all these “smart” attributes to become realized.

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48 Giffinger R. et al. (2007). Smart cities, ranking of European medium‐sized cities, Final report from Centre
of Regional Science, Vienna UT, October 2007.
49 http://www.smart‐cities.eu/
50 Pan J.‐G., Lin Y.‐F., Chuang S.‐Y., Kao Y.‐C. (2011). From governance to service‐smart city evaluations in
Taiwan, Proceedings from the 2011 International Joint Conference on Service Sciences, pp. 334‐337.
51 http://www.fastcoexist.com/1680538/what‐exactly‐is‐a‐smart‐city

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