HDI based data ownership model for smart cities

The advent of Machine to machine communication, and the indomitable push of the scientific community towards smart living has given birth to a new reality. This reality includes waking up to a smart home, travelling to work place using a smart vehicle, making smart decisions for the day which are backed more by technology than by instincts and that reality has been given a name and a physical existence in the form of “Smart City”. The single most characteristic quality of a smart city is categorized by the large amounts of data it produces. This data which is generated provides a lot of information about the usage as well as the user characteristics of the devices used. At, this point we look towards an important aspect which deals with humans as the center of the data ecosystem. In this paper we systematically analyze different facets of human data interaction with respect to the smart cities. The paper revolves around the parameters on the basis of which the ownership of data is decided which has been derived from an extensive survey and how the ownership aspect pans out with the dimensions of smart city. Finally, we discuss about the category of devices which dominate the smart city system and conclude upon how HDI could shape the future of smart cities.