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To make civic processes more cost-effective and environmentally competitive, smart cities make use of digital technologies. By turning streetlights on only when a road is in service, sensors installed in buildings and grid networks will help communities embrace green technologies and conserve electricity [32]. Sensors, smart cards, and digital cameras feed real-time data into advanced control systems, and better infrastructure and analytical technologies will enable decision-making. Rapid urbanization has contributed to extreme road jams as large numbers of citizens choose to enter cities by vehicle. As a result, air pollution has been a major challenge for cities. Development in smart cities has led to the introduction of creative integrated transport networks designed to satisfy the needs of residents. For starters, able to implement real-time mobility systems, smart travel passes, shared car trips, smart vehicles (driverless cars), and personal rapid transit.

One of the largest smart city projects currently taking place is the India Smart Cities Competition, a contest where 100 cities can receive funds from the Ministry of Urban Development and Bloomberg Philanthropies. Competition is meant to promote more innovation from municipal officers and their partners, as well as more involvement from people, in the development of smart city plans [31, 32]. As several critics find out that critical needs such as drinking water and sanitation need to be resolved, this problem has been scrutinized.

Using technologies and data improves resistance to urban problems, through greater efficiencies, and using creativity and industry introduces these fantastic opportunities for our communities. Those with good leadership and productive public-private collaborations working with community participation are the cities positioned to build on these possibilities.