Characteristics of Smart Cities and Their Relationship to Sustainability

Abstract

Making cities easier to live in requires a focus on issues like ensuring that everyone has access to resources, reducing poverty, managing disasters and risks, allocating land in a way that reduces biodiversity loss and deforestation, and building an energy-efficient, low-carbon society. Any way you slice it, using huge quantities of data in the building of sustainable cities is essential to overcome the daunting problems of urban living. The huge volumes of data being created from environmental and financial sources present an opportunity to improve resilience to natural disasters, the equitable allocation of scarce resources, the quality of life in urban areas, and the speed with which we can adapt to environmental shifts. As more people move to already overcrowded cities in India, they put further pressure on the country's already strained infrastructure and natural resources, leading to a number of social and environmental issues. Managing the infrastructure and asset needs of urban regions presents certain difficulties for policymakers and politicians in general. Included in this list are problems with administration, emissions of ozone-depleting materials, a lack of infrastructure, unemployment, a high waste age, impromptu land utilization, biological system debasement, and the loss of green space. Seeing the critical situation in India's major cities, the government launched the Smart City Mission to address the situation.