What is a Smart City?
Fast forward to a time when we live in what is dubbed as the "City of the Future" or a Smart City. In this city, the average day to day problems we face in our city have been minimized or eliminated thanks to technology.
Let's take a look at that scenario we talked about in Part 1 of this Smart City series.
Picking up from the moment you get off from work. Before you get into your car, you pull out your phone and check which store has all the items you need. In an instant, you already get the information you need. It is the store that is close to your house. You get in your car and drive off.
The drive to the store is relatively smooth. That is because traffic has been minimized--or eliminated in some areas--thanks to state of the art traffic control monitoring systems. These systems collect data on which roads are congested and using this data, it is able to adjust the traffic lights to signal which lanes need to be in the green and which roads should stop for now. This adjustment helps to ease the traffic congestion and cars don't end up getting stuck on a road for an hour.
On the way, an accident takes place. A car loses control an slams into the bumper of the car in front of it. Normally, it would take a while for the authorities or paramedics to arrive. But with the new smart monitoring cameras on the road, the proper authorities are contacted and the nearest unit is immediately dispatched on the scene to assist and solve those issues.
You arrive at the store parking lot and find a parking spot in no time thanks to the parking finder app that the store has created for customers. You are in and out of the grocery store in 30 mins.
You arrive home, prepare dinner, and watch some T.V. at around 9 pm, the garbage truck drives by to pick up the neighborhood's trash. Data gathered on the city about what time of the day has the least people on the streets have given the City Sanitation Department a clear idea of when the best time to collect garbage is so it won't affect anyone with its foul odor.
At around 10:30 pm, you get into bed and a few minutes later you drift into peaceful slumber. There are no more regulated power outages since the city has implemented green energy technologies. Thanks to satellite imaging, the government has determined what areas see the most sunlight and have placed solar panels all over these areas to make sure there is enough energy to sustain the city.
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