What is Smart City

A city is considered smart if it has at least one running initiative targeting one of the six key areas (Smart Governance, Smart Economy, Smart Mobility, Smart Environment, Smart People, Smart Living). Learn more in: Smart City Solutions and the Potential of Using Web APIs: End-User and Technical Perspectives

An urban area that uses different types of electronic Internet of things (IoT) such as sensors to collect data and use of insights gained from that data to efficiently manage assets, resources and services. Learn more in: Integration of Tellurism and Sacred Geometry in Professional Training: Innovation, Healthy Architecture, and Landscape

An urban area that uses electronics to collect and interoperate data; a municipality that uses technologies based on electronics to improve operational efficiency, to share data with the public and to improve services. Learn more in: Cybersecurity in Europe: Digital Identification, Authentication, and Trust Services

A City that enhances the quality of life of its inhabitants by taking advantage of the possibilities offered by digitalization and technology in order to solve urban problems and challenges in a more efficient and sustainable manner. Learn more in: Smart City = Smart Citizen = Smart Economy?: An Economic Perspective of Smart Cities

City that employs digital technology to enhance the quality and performance of urban services (such as transportation, energy, environment, etc.) through the leverage of modern technologies such as IoT. Learn more in: Edge-of-Things Computing-Based Smart Healthcare System

One city that uses digital technologies to make processes and relations between different urban actors more efficient. Learn more in: Smart Cities and Sustainability: A Complex and Strategic Issue – The Case of Torino Smart City

Finding solutions to tourism related problems of tourists by employing information and communication technologies in cities supported by different stakeholders. Learn more in: Smart Tourism in Destinations: Can It Be the Way Forward?

A smart regional ecosystem that includes several partners and stakeholders interconnected. They develop collaborative networks (firms, citizens, public organizations, cultural, economic and social infrastructure) to create an open and creative environment useful to live and to develop smart and innovative businesses and social projects. These regions present high standards attending to some indicators associated with innovation, creativity, environment, life quality, entrepreneurial activities and support infrastructures. Learn more in: Entrepreneurial Ecosystems: Lisbon as a Smart Start-Up City

It is a place where traditional networks and services are made more efficient with the use of digital and telecommunication technologies for the benefit of its inhabitants and business. A smart city goes beyond the use of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for better resource use and less emissions. It means smarter urban transport networks, upgraded water supply and waste disposal facilities and more efficient ways to light and heat buildings. It also means a more interactive and responsive city administration, safer public spaces and meeting the needs of an ageing population. Learn more in: The DIM Approach for Digital Twin

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A model of city conception and organization based in human and social capital, technological development and social and environmental sustainability. Learn more in: Cities Really Smart and Inclusive: Possibilities and Limits for Social Inclusion and Participation

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A city based on the concepts of knowledge society, competitiveness and sustainable development. Learn more in: Evaluating the Smart and Sustainable Built Environment in Urban Planning

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A city or town aims to apply integrated technology and internet to administer and control infrastructural facilities & services. Learn more in: Tourist Experience in Smart City Destination of Jaipur (Rajasthan)

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It uses different types of sensor systems to derive data which is used to manage assets and resources efficiently in order to improve the lives of citizens and visitors. Learn more in: Telematics and Mobile Internet: Current Situation and 5G Networks

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Is the designation given to a city that integrates procedures, actions and IT to enhance its sustainability in terms of providing better quality in its landscape, governance, urban services for citizens, environmental responsibility, education, etc., and reduces consumption and costs. Learn more in: Research Trends in Information Systems From the Management Discipline Based on Co-Occurrence Analysis

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A community in which citizens, business firms, knowledge institutions, and municipal agencies collaborate to achieve systems integration and efficiency, citizen engagement, and a continually improving quality of life for their inhabitants. Learn more in: Smart Territory Initiatives in an Emerging Economy: The Case of Chihuahua City in Mexico

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The smart city is the name given to an environment where technology is integrated into the city. Learn more in: Smart Tourism, Smart Cities, and Smart Destinations as Knowledge Management Tools

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A city which bears the traits of smartness that is smart infrastructure (hard and soft) smart governances. Learn more in: Smart Cities in Sub-Saharan Africa: Opportunities and Challenges

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A smart city is a city that provides a high quality of life with the effective use of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) applied to critical infrastructure components and services sustainably. Learn more in: Social Innovation as a New Social Policy Tool for Regional Government Institutions in Smart Territories

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Should be regarded as system of intensive, upgraded interactions between self-decisive residents that use natural resources and provide services in order to finance and enforce sustainable economic development and overall quality of life; these interactions become enhanced by making strategic use of traditional and modern information and communication technology and services in a progress of wise governance and urban planning management that address society needs. Learn more in: Strategic Directions in European Sustainable City Management

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The concept of a smart city or intelligent city describes a developed urban area that creates sustainable economic development and high-quality life by excelling in multiple key areas: economy, mobility, environment, people, living, education and government. Excelling in these key areas may be achieved through human capital, social capital, relational capital, education and ICT infrastructure as important drivers of urban growth. Learn more in: Role of Emotions in Interactive Museums: How Art and Virtual Reality Affect Emotions

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Also known as intelligent cities, this refers to a new vision for urban development, using IoT-based technologies and tools, to integrate and effectively manage a city’s resources and processes (e.g., transportation, healthcare, commerce, utilities, city’s e-government functions), to improve the quality of life of citizens. Learn more in: Intelligent Cities: A Compendious and Multidisciplinary Approach – Issues and Opportunities

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Eco-city, a city that is created with high-technology and utility to engage eco-energy for the citizens. Learn more in: Towards Smart Cities in Turkey?: Transitioning from Waste to Creative, Clean and Cheap Eco-Energy

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City in which smart technologies and services are implemented to improve the efficiency of public services and the quality of life of citizens. Learn more in: Citizen Perceptions and Support for Smart City Projects: The Case of “Smart Santander”

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A city that uses computer technology and electronic information to improve and enhance city infrastructure. Learn more in: Digital State Strategy

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is an urban area where different cyber-physical systems interact to provide services to citizens based on the Internet of Thing infrastructure. Learn more in: Autonomous Communication Model for Internet of Things

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City that creates an environment where different mechanisms are interconnects among them, all by using sensors and automations. Learn more in: MUSPEL: Generation of Applications to Interconnect Heterogeneous Objects Using Model-Driven Engineering

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A modern form of urban area that operates more on digital platforms, uses niche technologies like IIoT and is driven by information provided by EMIS. Learn more in: Circular Economy in Energizing Smart Cities

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A model of city directed towards a more sustainable, efficient and inclusive organization, supported by technology, connectivity, green energy and transports, innovation, governance and creativity, with the aim of making cities more resilient, competitive, and better places to live and visit. Learn more in: Application of Smart Tourism to Nature-Based Destinations

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An innovative city that uses ICT and other means to improve quality of life, efficiency of urban operation and services, and competitiveness, while ensuring that it meets the needs of present and future generations with respect to economic, social, and environmental aspects. Learn more in: Virtual and Augmented Reality for the Visualization of Summarized Information in Smart Cities: A Use Case for the City of Dubai

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An urban area using high-end information and communication technologies to efficiently manage resources leading to enhanced government services and citizen welfare. Learn more in: Smart Cities Project: Some Lessons for Indian Cities

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A smart city is an integration of information and communication technology and internet of things technology to manage the city's assets. Learn more in: Improve Home Energy Management System by Extracting Usage Patterns From Power Usage Big Data of Homes' Appliances

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A city using internet of things (IOT) sensors to collect data and garner insights gained from the data to manage all aspects encompassing the city efficiently and transparently. Learn more in: Building Intelligent Cities: Concepts, Principles, and Technologies

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Is an urban area that uses different types of electronic Internet of Things (IoT) sensors to collect data and then use insights gained from that data to manage assets, resources and services efficiently. Learn more in: Intelligence Applied to Smart Cities Through Architecture and Urbanism: Reflections on Multiple and Artificial Intelligences

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An urban area that uses different types of electronic data collection sensors installed in different areas of that city to collect, supply, and analyze, information to provide better service. Learn more in: The Co-Evolution of Cloud and IoT Applications: Recent and Future Trends

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An urban area or territory where exist skilled population called knowledge workers who use ICT (Information and communications technology) or digital technologies for learning, creativity, and innovation purposes also to enhance the quality of life on the economic, environmental, and governmental sectors. Learn more in: Inter and Intra Cities Smartness: A Survey on Location Problems and GIS Tools

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The term smart city refers to a city/town/area that adopts an interactive/participative management style and aims to enhance the residents’ quality of life and the quality of services provided in the city/town/area thanks mainly to advanced ICTs. Other technologies are also important since they can serve the same purposes. A cleaner environment, minimum levels of CO 2 emissions and ideally zero-emission, effective and efficient use of resources, and ultimately sustainability are at the focus of a smart city’s efforts. Learn more in: A New Concept in Tourism: Smart Tourism Destinations

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A developed urban area that creates sustainable economic development and high quality of life by excelling in multiple key areas; economy, mobility, environment, people, living, and government. Learn more in: Smart Government: Opportunities and Challenges in Smart Cities Development

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Is an urban area that uses different types of electronic methods and sensors to collect data. Learn more in: Unleashing the Convergence of Cloud Computing With Internet of Things: Drivers for Integration

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An urban area that uses different types of electronic data collection sensors to supply information which is used to manage assets and resources efficiently. Learn more in: “Smart City”: The Concept of Resolving the Contradiction Between Production and Urban Life

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Sensed urban area that shares information in a smart way to ease communication and to improve life quality of its inhabitants. Learn more in: Future Reconfigurable Radio Frontends for Cognitive Radio and Software Defined Radio: From Functional Materials to Spectrum Management

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Cities operating as well as solving their existing and potential problems with the help of smart technologies supported by big data, IoT, and ICT. Learn more in: Circular, Smart, and Connected Cities: A Key for Enhancing Sustainability and Resilience of the Cities

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City aiming to optimize resource production and consumption, expand the life quality of people and the community using its the capability of using advanced ICTs. Learn more in: Integrating Big Data to Smart Destination Heritage Management

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A smart city is an urban area that incorporates information and communication technologies to enhance the quality and performance of urban services such as energy, transportation, and utilities in order to reduce resource consumption, wastage, and overall costs. The overarching aim of a smart city is to enhance the quality of living for its citizens through smart technology. Learn more in: Smart Cars, Smart Cities, and Smart Sharing: The Changing Nature of Urban Public Spaces

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The concept of smart city is related to the integration of information and communication technology, human and relational capital, and business-led urban development. The vision behind this concept is the generation of urban development. In this chapter we include the system of innovation as an integral part of the business-led urban development. Learn more in: Strategic Challenges of the Portuguese Molds Industry: A Sectoral Innovation Perspective

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Is a city in which the integration of human and technological capital takes place in order to improve the quality of life and to stimulate economic growth based on optimization in terms of natural resources management and participatory management. Learn more in: Urban Farming in Sustainable City Development

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It’s a smart regional ecosystem that includes several partners and stakeholders interconnected. They develop collaborative networks (firms, citizens, public organizations, cultural, economic and social infrastructure) to create an open and creative environment useful to live and to develop smart and innovative businesses and social projects. These regions present high standards attending to some indicators associated with innovation, creativity, environment, life quality, entrepreneurial activities and support infrastructures. Learn more in: Best Practices to Become a Sustainable Smart City: The Case of Singapore

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Population seeking sustainable development in a broad sense and providing the most appropriate response to the basic needs of its residents. Learn more in: The Perception of the Effect of Tourism on the Local Community before the Ibiza Smart Island Project

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is an urban area that integrates Internet of Things (IoT) devices, Artificial Intelligence (AI) and information and communication technologies in order to optimize the efficiency of city operations, services and infrastructure use, keeping citizens permanently informed and increasing contact between citizens and government. Learn more in: Smart Homes as a Solution for Sustainable and More Inclusive Retrofitting of Existing Buildings

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A well-defined geographical area, in which high technologies such as ICT, logistic, energy production, and so on, cooperate to create benefits for citizens in terms of wellbeing, inclusion and participation, environmental quality, intelligent development; it is governed by a well-defined pool of subjects, able to state the rules and policy for the city government and development. Learn more in: Participatory Design of Use Cases for an IoT Open Platform to Support Smart Urban Development: Approach and Method

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It is the holistic vision of a city that applies ICT for the improvement of the quality of life and accessibility of its inhabitants and ensures a sustainable economic, social, and environmental development in permanent improvement. Learn more in: Effects of COVID-19 on Small Businesses in the Catering Sector: Measures for recovery

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An urban area that uses information and communication technology to improve the quality of citizen’s life and efficiently manage public services. Learn more in: Review of the Role of the Internet of Things (IoT) on the Consumer Market: Focusing on Smart Tourism, Healthcare, and Retailing

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A city in which all the available resources are efficiently managed in order to improve the wellbeing and quality of life of its residents. Learn more in: Building Smarter Cities through Social Entrepreneurship

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The concept aimed at fostering a sustainable city development through the optimal management of the resources, offering a comprehensive, high-quality life for the citizen. Learn more in: Smart City and Digital Twins: Definitions, Methodologies, and Applications

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It is a city model where smart technologies are used to increase the life quality of local people, improve and manage the services offered to them. Learn more in: Accessible Tourism Experiences in Smart Destinations: The Case of Breda (Netherlands)

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The term smart city is often used to describe cities that enrich functions relevant to the city using advanced information and communication technologies that can contribute to an efficient and sustainable development of the social-ecological design of urban space. Learn more in: Ontological Design for Cognitive Cities: The New Principle for Future Urban Management

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Cities that are using digital technologies in advancing the quality of life, economic and social organization as well as governing urban populations. Learn more in: Crafting Smart Cities in the Gulf Region: A Comparison of Masdar and Lusail

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The quality of smartness applied to cities is a multiscaling concept and one that has been subjected to many definitions. The one adopted in this chapter understands a smart city as a city whose citizens (residents and workers) conceive of innovative and sustainable ideas to the city experience, at different levels, thus contributing to smart living in all its forms, urban, social, cultural, economic and environmental. This experience is often enhanced by the instrumental role of ICT in many areas of city living (transportation, communication, waste management, among others), wise governance and more sustainable mobility options. Learn more in: Smart Citizens, Wise Decisions: Sustainability-Driven Tourism Entrepreneurs

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An urban area that uses different types of electronic Internet of things (IoT) such as sensors to collect data and use of insights gained from that data to efficiently manage assets, resources, and services efficiently. Learn more in: Landscape and Water Networks: Impact on Health for the Smart City – Case Study: El Pardo and the Manzanares River Basin

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Smart Cities uses digital technologies and technological convergence to reduce costs and resource consumption and enhance urban areas to achieve more livable, efficient and safe cities. Learn more in: Smart CCTV and the Management of Urban Space

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urban area that uses different types of electronic Internet of things (IoT) sensors to collect data collected from citizens, devices, buildings and assets. Insights gained from that data are then processed and analyzed to monitor and manage assets, resources and services efficiently; in return, that data is used improve the operations across the city. The smart city concept integrates information and communication technology (ICT), and various physical devices connected to the IoT network to optimize the efficiency of city operations and services and connect to citizens. Learn more in: KPIs to Drive Smart City Assessment

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Smart City is existing infrastructures integrate with technology and ensure sustainability, as a city that directs the focus directly to people and integrates people with people, institutions and people aims to maximize the interaction between people and institutions. Learn more in: A Comprehensive Systematic Literature Review About Smartness in Tourism

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In urban planning, is a set of urban planning strategies aimed at the optimization and innovation of public services. Learn more in: Immersive Technologies and Smart Cities in ASEAN: Discovering the Future Innovation Challenges

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A holistic urban system, involving components such as transportation, healthcare, utilities, education, housing, public safety and security, communications and businesses, that integrates sensors and actuators in the infrastructure to operate an integrated, self-sustaining management system through the intelligent use of information and communications networks. Learn more in: Smart, Sustainable, and Safe Urban Transportation Systems: Recent Developments in the Asia-Pacific Region

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It is a designation given to a city that incorporates information and communication technologies (ICT) to enhance the quality and performance of urban services – such as energy, transportation, and utilities –to reduce resource consumption, wastage, and overall costs. The main goal of a smart city is to optimize city functions and promote economic growth while improving the quality of life for citizens by using smart technologies and data analysis. Learn more in: How Can Technology Advance the Public Administration Discipline in Higher Education?: A Comprehensive Analysis of the U.S. Scenario

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An urban environment that employs technology with the main motive of enhancing citizens’ quality of life. It widely employs sensors to gather and analyze data, to handle the city’s resources efficiently. Learn more in: Sustainable Mobility in Smart Cities: The Key Role of Gamified Motivational Systems for Citizens' Engagement and Behavior Change

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In the smart city vision, the city develops by analyzing data from IoT-related connections and sensors. The main advantage of the Smart City stems from the processing of sensor data and analyzing data for making better decisions. On the way to smart cities, an essential component will be the algorithms for machine learning and predictive analysis. Today, “smart cities” are considered as the places where different stakeholders use technology to make better decisions and achieve a superior quality of life. Learn more in: Disruptive Logistics and Green Supply Chain Management

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A smart or intelligent city refer to new breed of technology -cities. Its elements include smart homes, smart manufacturing, intelligent transportation, etc. Development and management of such cities is technology based. The goal is to enable people living more comfortably in smart homes and work in more desirable environments. Learn more in: A Machine Learning-Based Cyber Defence System for an Intelligent City

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A smart city is a city that uses technology to provide services and solve city problems. Learn more in: Approaches to Tackle Smart Cities Challenges in Brunei

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