Demystifying Smart Cities: Practical Perspectives on How Cities Can Leverage the Potential of New Te

Anders Lisdorf

236 pages, parution le 29/12/2019

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Cut through the hype surrounding Smart Cities. This book looks at the facts on the ground and realities, coming to a more adequate understanding of where technology can and cannot help in a city context, specifically pulling on insights gained from smart city initiatives in New York, Chicago, Amsterdam and Copenhagen.
Currently, the concept of Smart Cities is rightfully touted as a transformative power in our lives. The use of Internet of Things, Artificial Intelligence, Big Data and Blockchain are some of the most hyped technologies that promise to bring about significant changes to how we live and manage our cities. While some isolated solutions have been implemented with great success and impact, the full potential of smart cities have so far not been realized. Practical realities often interfere, bringing initiatives to a screeching halt or stopping them before they even start. By better understanding the practical realities of a city we may be able to better make use of technology to make smarter cities.
To that end end, this book provides a number of practical guidelines on how to make cities smarter with the aid of technology. You'll also dive into the practical understanding of managing and securing thousands, possibly millions, of devices and the accompanying data. Demystifying Smart Cities evaluates how technology can behave in a more intelligent way and how producing novel solutions can pose problems of their own.
What You'll Learn

Practical issues and challenges of managing thousands and millions of IoT devices in a city
The different types of city data and how to manage and secure it
The possibilities of utilizing AI into a city (and how it differs from working with the private sector)
Examples of how to make cities smarter with technology

Who This Book Is For
Primarily for those already familiar with the hype of smart city technologies but not the details of its implementation, along with technologists interested in learning how city government works when integrating technology. Also, people working for smart city vendors, especially sales people and product managers who need to understand their target market.
Chapter 1: IntroductionChapter Goal: to set the scene for the focus of the book and create interest in the subject

The history and future of cities
The smart city landscape

Part 1: Understanding smart citiesThe purpose of part 1 is to describe the basics of smart cities
Chapter 2: ConnectivityChapter Goal: describing the different ways in which the city technologies can be connected and illustrate with real world examples

Networks
Broadband
WiFi
LinkNYC
NYC Mesh

Chapter 3: DevicesChapter Goal: Define what is meant by devices and IoT and give examples of the practical issues and challenges managing thousands and millions of devices in a city

What is a device?
Managing a device - the power of platforms
Protecting a device - IoT Security
Developing device standards - an interagency effort

Chapter 4: DataChapter Goal: Making clear the different types of city data and how they need to be managed and secured

Different kinds of data Sharing data Retention of data
The data explosion

Chapter 5: IntelligenceChapter Goal: Putting the possibilities of Artificial Intelligence into a city context to explain key differences with application in private companies

Algorithmic transparency - the drive is toward transparency not the efficiency of AI.
Legislation about AI.
Political accountability - even if it is AI politicians will be accountable and understanding for AI is low
AI in real life - how different types of AI will play out in a city context
Ethics and AI - who decides the ethics?

Chapter 6: Engagement

In house development
Traditional procurement
Sponsored
Hackathons
Civic technology
Public private partnerships
University Collaboration

Part 2: Towards smarter citiesThe purpose of Part 2 is to be more prescriptive and offers a series of essays related to how to make cities smarter Chapter 7: "Architect with imagination" - could payphones show the way in an emergency
Chapter 8: "Make innovation a habit" - why most innovation is like low fat yoghurt"
Chapter 9: "Build the data refinery" - because cities run on data
Chapter 10: "Optimize data value not just data quality" - how to avoid another Mars Climate Orbiter disaster
Chapter 11: "Employ pragmatic idealism", bridging the ivory tower and the trenches
Chapter 12: ConclusionAnders Lisdorf has worked with innovative technologies for more than a decade in many different settings and industries. The last couple of years he has been responsible for developing the data services of New York City, but previously he has worked as an entrepreneur, taught at the university level and worked as a consultant.

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Éditeur(s)	Apress
Auteur(s)	Anders Lisdorf
Parution	29/12/2019
Nb. de pages	236
EAN13	9781484253762

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