Big Data Tools, Techniques and Technologies Looking at Insights in Smart Cities

Abstract

The concept of “Big Data” has drawn considerable attention from researchers in information sciences, policy, and decision-makers in governments and enterprises such a new scientific paradigm is emerging as Data-Intensive Scientific Discovery (DISD). The speed of growing excessive data causes great troubles to a wide range of fields and sectors from economic and business to public administration, from national security to scientific researches in many areas as it makes potential values and brilliant opportunities. Therefore, decision-makers have a strong tendency to manage this growth, in particular from the viewpoint of data capture, data storage, data analysis, and data visualization. This paper aims to review deeply the current literature and classify tools, techniques, and technologies using to handle the data deluge. After that, authors have focused on reviewing and discussing insights and applications of big data benefits in smart cities such as traffic data centers, information transport systems, citizen demands and etc.