Global Smart Infrastructure - Smart Cities and Smart Communities - Trends and Insights

Synopsis

A significant step forward for the development of smart cities and smart communities occurred in 2014 with the release of a standard by the International Standards Organization (ISO), which assists in setting indicators cities can benchmark themselves against.

Smart cities are going to be amazing community hubs which will be more sustainable, efficient and supportive of citizens. The concept of smart communities is based on intelligent infrastructure such as broadband (FttH) and smart grids, so that connected and sustainable communities can be developed. State-of-the-art telecommunications are also vital to a city's economic health and well-being.

Around the world there are already examples of some smart cities emerging and many countries have developed plans for smart infrastructure. 

Half of the world’s population are already city-dwellers, and the trend towards increased urbanization is accelerating rapidly. The future of the majority of the world’s citizens is undeniably urban – 70% will live in cities by 2050 - but how exactly that city of tomorrow will look, and how smart living is implemented and experienced is still being explored.

This BuddeComm report discusses and provides examples of some of the key developments taking place around the world towards building smart cities and communities, including the key components and insights into smart/connected homes development. The report includes smart city examples and explores the imperative need for smart communities going forward. For information on Smart Transport, see separate report: BuddeComm Intelligence Report - Smart Transport, Smart Vehicles and Drones.

Latest developments:

With increased climate change events around the world, the new definition of ‘smart community’ as set by Japan is relevant to other parts of the world. The definition of smart communities which is used in Japan is much broader even than what is being talked about elsewhere in the world. It is seen more as a social experiment than an energy or ICT issue.

Table of Contents

• 1. Synopsis
• 2. Introduction
  • 2.1 Smart cities: sustainable engines for growth
  • 2.2 The use of telecommunications in smart cities
  • 2.3 Smart city standards
• 3. Building smart cities to ease the stress
  • 3.1 A population of nine billion people
  • 3.2 The role of smart cities
  • 3.3 We need to use people power
  • 3.4 Education, information, empowerment
  • 3.5 Greenfield communities
  • 3.6 Intelligent/smart technologies and systems
  • 3.7 Smart city investment
    • 3.8 Big Data, M2M, cloud computing and smart cities
  • 4. Key components of smart cities
    • 4.1 A smart city built on three pillars
    • 4.2 Smart grids
    • 4.3 Next Generation Telecoms/National broadband networks
    • 4.4 Smart government
    • 4.5 Open networks
  • 5. Smart buildings/Connected homes
    • 5.1 Home Area Networks (HANs)
      • 5.1.1 Internal network connectivity
    • 5.2 Network devices
      • 5.2.1 Home media centres
      • 5.2.2 Interfacing with home networks
    • 5.3 Google, Microsoft, Samsung and Apple target smart Home market
      • 5.3.1 Why solar may not be the biggest threat to energy utilities
    • 5.4 Smart Home Cloud Services
  • 6. Wearable technology (separate report)
  • 7. Selected examples of smart cites and communities
    • 7.1 Australia
      • 7.1.1 Remote controlled sewer systems
      • 7.1.2 Smart infrastructure
      • 7.1.3 Smart water infrastructure
      • 7.1.4 Smart Work Hubs - NSW
    • 7.2 China
      • 7.2.1 Forming a silicon delta in Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau
    • 7.3 Singapore
      • 7.3.1 Intelligent Nation 2015 (iN2015)
      • 7.3.2 Next Generation National Infocomm Infrastructure (Next Gen NII)
    • 7.4 South Korea
      • 7.4.1 New Songdo City
      • 7.4.2 Seoul
      • 7.4.3 Ubiquitous Korea (u-Korea)
      • 7.4.4 Busan
    • 7.5 India
    • 7.6 Europe
      • 7.6.1 Amsterdam
      • 7.6.2 Portugal
      • 7.6.3 Stockholm
    • 7.7 Middle East
      • 7.7.1 Qatar
      • 7.7.2 United Arab Emirates
  • 8. Related reports
  • Table 1 – Global M2M connections – 2010; 2013; 2014
  • Exhibit 1 – Smart City Operating System (OS)
  • Exhibit 2 – The Intelligent Communities Forum
  • Exhibit 3 – Insights into Smart Community Conference Tokyo 2014
  • Exhibit 4 – Smart Homes
  • Exhibit 5 – Examples of HAN technology options
  • Exhibit 6 – Google's acquisition of Nest and smart homes
  • Exhibit 7 – Smart shopping
  • Exhibit 8 – Singapore - a snapshot of the Intelligent Nation 2015 (iN2015) project
  • Exhibit 9 – Smart energy project in Amsterdam