۱- Introduction

۲- Related work

۳- Smart city axes

۴- Smart city standardization

۵- Smart city software systems

۶- Conclusion

Acknowledgments

References

Abstract

The concept of a smart city has recently gained attention in academic, industry, and governments. Smart cities could be considered as urban areas that use data collection sensors and digital technologies which cooperate to create benefits for citizens in terms of well being, inclusion and participation, environmental quality, and intelligent development. Smart city vendors provide software systems to support application developers, city managers, urban planners, and policy-makers in designing, implementing, deploying, and managing smart city applications for an effective urban development and management. Although there exist a variety of smart city software systems, their benefits and limitations are still unknown. In this paper we review smart city vendors and we provide insight into their software systems for smart cities. Thus, we come up with a good entry point, and here survey a large amount of information to help developers, city managers, urban planners, and policy-makers to take better decisions when choosing smart city software systems.

Introduction

The urban population of the world has grown rapidly from 751 million in 1950 to 4.2 billion in 2018. For the past ten years, more than half of the world’s population (55%) has lived in cities. In fact, the latest United Nations forecast predicts that 68% of the world’s population will be living in cities by 2050.1 At that point, the world’s total urban population will be almost equal to the earth’s entire population today. Thus, the number of people living in big cities will have grown from one billion to more than five billion. This trend will also lead to the rise of more megacities (cities that have over 10 million inhabitants). By 2030, the world is projected to have 43 megacities, most of them in developing regions. Therefore, demands on infrastructures will grow accordingly.

Smart cities have become a global phenomenon and municipal leaders around the world are interested in the potential opportunities of adapting their cities for the future. Although there is no consensus of what exactly a smart city is (Camero & Alba, 2019), a smart city can be defined as a geographical area in which high technologies such as information and communication technologies (ICT), logistic, energy production, and so on, cooperate to create benefits for citizens in terms of well being, inclusion and participation, environmental quality, and intelligent development (Dameri, 2013).