Smart Cities are all about improving infrastructure, efficiency, convenience, and quality of life for inhabitants. A key enabler of Smart Cities today are smartphones that put instant information about transit, traffic, health services, safety alerts, and community news into millions of hands.
However, there are much more to cities than just Smartphone. The rise of the Internet of Things, commonly known as IoT devices, have become advanced enough that their adoption throughout cities can help to collect more accurate data and generate actionable results. These results could be making a city more sustainable or locating the busiest areas of one.
With the help of 5G technology, IoT devices can be placed anywhere, and lots of them. Some may say that this is just mass surveillance. However, how is it surveillance if the technology is not intruding on your privacy and also helping you to stay safe and make your life easier? This is why we are so embedded with technology, after all.
Smart City Sectors
These are the areas Cities are innovating to make cities smart.
City Transport
- Public transport apps with live data.
- Dynamic traffic management.
- efficient public transport routes.
City Safety
- Protecting the public from health hazards and security alerts.
- Proactive response from emergency services.
- Better alerting and information systems to the public.
City Health
- Spotting health trends and locating links to causes.
- Accurate feedback on pandemics.
- Wellness management.
City Connectivity
- Always having a connection so you can better utilise mobile services.
Where Does Smart City Operating System Get Involved?
Many smart city “programs” are focused on individual aspects of cities like the sectors mentioned above. This leads to repeating the wheel and poor communication between sectors. scOS is a Web 3.0 Smart City platform, that embeds all city sectors and manages them with AI architectures. Our AI architectures share data instantaneously to make decisions a single human cannot. This could be managing a car crash on an intersection where scOS will take live data to control emergency service sectors and utility sectors; dispatching fire and ambulance services and cutting off gas mains to the area if predictions lead to a more serious event.
