Yes, smart city, it’s today’s topic. We often hear about smart cities. Every developing country wants a smart city in their country. In our country, 5 smart cities under construction. But why every country wants a smart city?
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What is Smart City?
A smart city is a designation given to a city that incorporates information and communication technologies (ICT) to enhance the quality and performance of urban services such as energy, transportation, and utilities in order to reduce resource consumption, wastage and overall costs. The the overarching aim of a smart city is to enhance the quality of living for its citizens through smart technology. The factors that contribute to a city being classified as smart are:
1) The application of a wide variety of digital and electronic technologies to the city and its communities
2) The application of ICT to uplift life and the working environments in the region
3) The embedding of such ICT within government systems
4) The territorialization of practices that bring the people and ICT together in order to foster innovation and enhance the knowledge that they offer.
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What are the civil engineering aspects of the smart city?
The role of civil engineering in some key components of smart city infrastructure are discussed below:
Smart Transportation
A smart city is all about all-round connectivity and accessibility. The storage and efficient transfer of data by and between roads, vehicles, highways, bridges, traffic lights and even the relevant building is capable of assisting with the public as we as commercial transportation management, route information system, vehicle control and safety, and traffic congestions.
Through the intelligent the transportation system has been there for a while, the latest generation of solutions come with features like traffic prediction, analytics and decision support, traveler information, advisory services, ticketing, and face the collection that are capable of enhancing a current system to a whole new level.
A lot of sensors need to be embedded into new and existing roadways, building, bridges, post, and signs that continuously gather data from passing vehicles. All the different kind of vehicles on the road need to be able to interact with each other and the infrastructure without any interruptions.
City planners, therefore, are required to go an extra mile and work with civil engineers to upgrade their urban infrastructures to incorporate sensors and lot devices.
Smart Building
In a smart city, Civil engineers have to plan the construction of a building to the installation of smart management systems.
With the advent of a lot and AI, the working mechanisms for lighting systems, fire protection systems, security the system, CCTV, HVAC have undergone a complete overhaul. Motion sensors can sense when an area is vacant or occupied and turn off on or the lights and lower the temperature; crews can be monitored using passive RFID as they check-in; IP networks let the users adjust the HVAC setting of the building over their smart phone or tablet so the desired temperature is achieved by the time they arrive.
Another important technology is the adoption of smart concrete sensors. These sensors are embedded within concrete at the time of placing and are able to relay necessary information like concrete’s health, temperature, etc. that ultimately helps with increased sustainability and infrastructure lifespan a huge benefit to Civil engineers.
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Smart Water and Irrigation Systems
Lot has revolutionized the conventional water and irrigation system as well. Now, the system uses digital technology to help save water, reduce costs, and increase the reliability and transparency of water distribution.
Physical pipe networks are embedded with sensors that help analyze the available flow and pressure data to determine aberrations (such as leaks) in real-time to manage water flow. Real-time information can be provided to customers to help conserve water leading to lower water bills.
In the field of irrigation, Automatic irrigation systems are set to replace the traditional irrigation systems. Again, the conjunction of lot and sensors is used for controlling the the basic switching mechanism of motors by sensing moisture present in the soil.
Automatic irrigation system makes it possible to identify the amount of water to be delivered that will assist in maintaining the level of soil moisture and monitoring the level of the water tank which stores the water that will aid in the irrigation system.
Smart Sewerage Management
A smart sewerage management system is required to manage the flow of waste through low volume and high volume periods and, occasionally, at times of high precipitation that brings in a the heavy influx of water, making the way into the sewers.
Smart sewerage systems allow the city sewer infrastructure to store overflows in huge tanks (interceptors) constructed in various parts of the system. The addition of smart sensors to detect and monitor flow levels allows smart sewer systems to manage gates and valves that direct wastewater to locations where there is sufficient storage space.
Sensors are also used to monitor sewer lines for any weaknesses or damage that may require attention providing time to enable convenient scheduling of maintenance trips and routines.
Importance of Smart City
In the 21st century, we have to agree, we need a lot of smart cities now. All the cities we have are old models, now times to change them. In these old cities, the population is increasing day by day. And as a result, the city’s balance is deteriorating, enlarging cities, growing roads. And big trees, small forests are being cut down to make the city bigger.
This is a global challenge. Examples in China, India, Africa, and Australia vividly illustrate the need for smarter solutions to deal with massive population growth, rural to urban migration, and resource depletion.
We need to transform our cities. Not just once, but continuously.
Advantages of Smart City
There are lots of advantages in the smart city. This article we discuss the main 10 advantages –
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High-Quality Transportation: We can call a city better when its communication or transportation system is improved. Then the smart city provided very developing transportation for us.
Seamless Communication: In a smart city, communication is very developing. Communication between the various systems and sensors in a smart city is important.
Easier life: In smart city our lifestyle is much easier.
Terrorist Free: In a smart city, you don’t care about various illegal works and terrorist attacks.
Fast Service: A team always monitoring to address water leaks, road accident, sewage problem, communication problem and many other problems.
Production: In a smart city, it provides fresh food, organic the food at a reasonable price.
Well Plan Sewage Management: In a smart city, it provides a smart sewage system. All sewage systems are underground and routinely cleaned.
High-speed Internet: It provides high-speed internet and endless internet at a low cost.
Artificial Intelligent System: Maximum system like car parking, bus parking, traffic, Rail ticket these all things are under the control of the AI system.
Healthy Environment & recycle: It easily helps in controlling water, environment, waste management, recycle and reduce and also animal conservation.
Disadvantages of Smart City
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