A review on conglomeration of Technologies for Smart Cities

Abstract

The dream of creating Smart Cities is associated with many desires, aspirations, technological limitations and concerns related to a safe and secure human life. This paper is an effort to assess the desired features in a smart city and explore the available solutions by means of upcoming technologies. The key aspects that are prominent for a smart city: infra, economy and policy, technology, sustainability, and health are enumerated with key desired features. These aspects can be fulfilled only by means of available technology solutions. The paper discusses the role of (IoT, Cloud Computing, Big Data, AI &ML and Block chain technology in developing a solution to fulfil the needs of a smart city. The strength and dependence of the technologies on one another is discussed to take the maximum benefit of these technologies while designing an appropriate solution for the smart city.