Smart Technologies: The Key for Sustainable Smart Cities [Notes from the Editor]

IEEE Consumer Electron. Mag. Pub Date : 2018-03-01 DOI:10.1109/MCE.2017.2776439

S. Mohanty

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It reminds me the kind help of emeritus EiC Dr. Peter Corcoran who made Smart Cities article authored by me as the cover article in July 2016 issue of CE magazine. Then from the October 2016 issue I started functioning as the EiC to driver the EiC to next level which had a strong start by Dr. Peter Corcoran. The smart cities article in July 2016 titled “Everything You wanted to Know about Smart Cities” has been very influential on the global community as evident from 5500 download till date in IEEE Xplore. That motivated me to deliver my IEEE distinguished lecture (broadcasted as CE society webinar) on the Smart Cities that I also made available in linkedin which as viewed 2500 times. Based on the above facts, I dedicate this issue cover theme to smart technologies which are needed to realize sustainable smart cities. I sincerely hope the January 2018 issue which has been dedicated to smart healthcare, an important component of smart cities, will be a good reading. As discussed in the smart cities article Internet-of-Things (IoT) is the backbone of smart cities which provides instrumentation (I), interconnection (I) and intelligence (I) capabilities to the smart cities. While IoT is the technology that makes smart cities possible, the associated or related technologies such as physical infrastructure, electrical infrastructure, electronics, communication infrastructure, information technology infrastructure, and software, make the smart cities happen. It is a matter of design and operation cost tradeoffs to have a proper mix of the smart technologies so that the smart cities are not over smart, rather sufficiently smart to be sustainable for years and years.

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