Smart Cities: Accelerating Sustainable Development Agenda
Continuing with my previous editorial notes on smart cities and technology advancement, this note discusses how smart cities can be enablers to achieving sustainable development agendas. Smart cities harness technological and digital solutions to address urban challenges and...
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| description | Continuing with my previous
editorial notes on smart cities and technology advancement, this note discusses
how smart cities can be enablers to achieving sustainable development agendas.
Smart cities harness technological and digital solutions to address urban
challenges and continuously improve citizens’ quality of life. The key benefits
of smart cities include maximizing benefit optimization and resource
efficiency, creating sustainable built environments and infrastructure,
increasing citizens’ productivity, and producing better social, economic, and
environmental benefits. The use of artificial intelligence (AI) for actionable
insights into improving the planning, construction, and operations of city
development has provided citizens with more efficient, integrated, and
sustainable city services. Smart cities promote equitable access to education,
healthcare, and social services, creating a more inclusive and resilient
society. Smart
cities are able to deliver better services to their citizens. Big data—data
collection and utilization—for different areas of public services are
integrated, secured, and constantly updated to solve city problems and create
faster solutions. Through the Internet of Things (IoT), sensors, and online
platforms, the city can be continuously monitored and measured. This allows any
policy and required action to be quickly decided upon to ensure a sustainable,
positive impact on the city and its residents. Surveillance systems, early
warning systems, and citizen collaboration platforms are among the pathways
that are capable of preserving the city’s ecosystem and environment. For
example, part of the ongoing development of Indonesia’s new capital, Nusantara,
is dedicated to building a smart, sustainable forest city. Besides
infrastructure and physical buildings as the city’s backbone (hardware) and
integrated systems that enable the city to operate by connecting physical
buildings through digital technology (software), they aim to build the capacity
and capability of human resources through technological advancement
(brainware). The six sectoral domains of the Nusantara smart city include smart
governance, smart transportation and mobility, smart living, smart natural
resources, smart industry and people, and smart built environments and
infrastructure. Innovative
technology use is required to balance economic advancement and environmental
regeneration for social well-being. Science and technology play a significant
role in achieving sustainable smart cities by improving the efficiency and
effectiveness of new ways of development. Investments in green technology,
streamlined processes, safer materials, and improved performances and outcomes
are some of the results of such development. Technological investments in utilizing
renewable energy resources, building urban water systems and sustainable public infrastructure, increasing food production, and
producing environmentally friendly materials and products are the pathways
through which smart technology will significantly contribute to achieving
sustainable development targets. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7a13c1445a254ef3927eadc1bf1190b02023-01-18T07:23:19ZengUniversitas IndonesiaInternational Journal of Technology2086-96142087-21002023-01-011411410.14716/ijtech.v14i1.63236323Smart Cities: Accelerating Sustainable Development AgendaMohammed Ali Berawi0Faculty of Engineering, Universitas Indonesia, Kampus UI Depok, Depok 16424, Indonesia Continuing with my previous editorial notes on smart cities and technology advancement, this note discusses how smart cities can be enablers to achieving sustainable development agendas. Smart cities harness technological and digital solutions to address urban challenges and continuously improve citizens’ quality of life. The key benefits of smart cities include maximizing benefit optimization and resource efficiency, creating sustainable built environments and infrastructure, increasing citizens’ productivity, and producing better social, economic, and environmental benefits. The use of artificial intelligence (AI) for actionable insights into improving the planning, construction, and operations of city development has provided citizens with more efficient, integrated, and sustainable city services. Smart cities promote equitable access to education, healthcare, and social services, creating a more inclusive and resilient society. Smart cities are able to deliver better services to their citizens. Big data—data collection and utilization—for different areas of public services are integrated, secured, and constantly updated to solve city problems and create faster solutions. Through the Internet of Things (IoT), sensors, and online platforms, the city can be continuously monitored and measured. This allows any policy and required action to be quickly decided upon to ensure a sustainable, positive impact on the city and its residents. Surveillance systems, early warning systems, and citizen collaboration platforms are among the pathways that are capable of preserving the city’s ecosystem and environment. For example, part of the ongoing development of Indonesia’s new capital, Nusantara, is dedicated to building a smart, sustainable forest city. Besides infrastructure and physical buildings as the city’s backbone (hardware) and integrated systems that enable the city to operate by connecting physical buildings through digital technology (software), they aim to build the capacity and capability of human resources through technological advancement (brainware). The six sectoral domains of the Nusantara smart city include smart governance, smart transportation and mobility, smart living, smart natural resources, smart industry and people, and smart built environments and infrastructure. Innovative technology use is required to balance economic advancement and environmental regeneration for social well-being. Science and technology play a significant role in achieving sustainable smart cities by improving the efficiency and effectiveness of new ways of development. Investments in green technology, streamlined processes, safer materials, and improved performances and outcomes are some of the results of such development. Technological investments in utilizing renewable energy resources, building urban water systems and sustainable public infrastructure, increasing food production, and producing environmentally friendly materials and products are the pathways through which smart technology will significantly contribute to achieving sustainable development targets.https://ijtech.eng.ui.ac.id/article/view/6323 |
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