Evaluation of Smart Infrastructure Systems and Novel UV-Oriented Solution for Integration, Resilience, Inclusiveness, and Sustainability

Abstract

Rapid urbanization nowadays demands the stable functioning of a city’s infrastructure, but the traditional infrastructure system faces numerous challenges: unpreparedness for extreme situations, aging and deterioration of existing facilities, costly maintenance, and lack of coordination. Moreover, the transformation from traditional infrastructure into smart infrastructure introduces new challenges both from the underdevelopment of information network and the limitation of AI technologies. In this paper, we evaluate, from the UV perspective, the challenges of the infrastructure system and the current status of the smart infrastructure system based on the framework of closed feedback control loops: data acquisition, communication, decision making, and action. We propose that an effective smart infrastructure system should take into consideration the interaction between the smart infrastructure system and other seven smart city subsystems: smart home, smart medicine and healthcare, intelligent transportation, urban planning and crowd management, smart energy management, smart response for city emergency, smart environmental protection, and smart humanity, and also study how the smart infrastructure system would be affected by four major impacting factors of smart cities: information flow, material cycle, lifestyle, and community. This systematic study will help us explore in-depth the complicated dynamic relationship between multiple impacting factors and propose a UV-oriented, integrated, resilient, inclusive, and sustainable development framework design to address current imminent challenges and to improve the efficiency and safety of city infrastructure through vulnerability-oriented sensing and active monitoring; defining shared responsibilities; communication reinforcements; data visualization; static and dynamic data integration; hierarchical decision making; and optimized and coordinated demand response management.