Integration of nature and technology for smart cities

The smart trend of new Internet technologies, promoting cloud-based services, the Internet of Things (IoT) and real-world user interfaces through smart phones, smart meters, and network of sensors and RFIDs, will continue to open new ways to collaborative problem solving. The use of ICT (information and communication technologies) to transform life and working environments within the region and territorialization of practices will bring people and nature together to enhance the innovation and knowledge. Things could be very different. Urban residents could enjoy clean air instead of smog, stress-free mobility instead of congested roads, clean drinking water instead of water sources that carry pathogens, and affordable electricity from renewable sources that is available on demand instead of expensive or dirty energy obtained from fossil fuels.
The path to that future does not lead back into a preindustrial age. Instead, it leads forward to an age of digital technologies in which cities operate like large computers. Many major cities are already on the way to that future at least in some areas. They are becoming smart in the modern sense: on the basis of data. And they are being helped by many sophisticated technologies.
Due to the breadth of technologies that have been implemented under the smart city label, it is difficult to distil a precise defi nition of a smart city. A smart city not only possesses ICT technology in particular areas but implements this technology in a manner that impacts the local community, environment, and health. A city can be defined as “smart” when investments in human and social capital and traditional
(transport) and modern (ICT) communication infrastructure fuel sustainable economic development. This leads to a high quality of life, with a wise management of natural resources, through participatory action and engagement.

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