Environment and Big Data: Role in Smart Cities of India

Abstract

The intention of India’s Smart City Mission program is to achieve better living conditions in a sustainable environment with smart solutions. This program identifies the key challenges of urbanization and the environment. The mitigation of these challenges depends on the monitoring and assessment of multiple factors, including demography, education, health, and the environment; however, the inclusion of environmental factors are limited. The monitoring and assessment of environmental factors will continuously generate big data and hence would require scientific and technological innovation for a sustainable management plan. This study identifies six environmental factors, which should be integrated in the development of smart cities. These environmental factors include indicators of landscape and geography, climate, atmospheric pollution, water resources, energy resources, and urban green space as a major component of the environment. This paper also discusses the importance of these environmental components and the maintenance of big data in the management of smart cities.

Lagoa Uma Visão Chis Cidades Mais Humanas, Inteligentes E Sustentáveis: Inovação Urbana E Cocriação

“…Todas as UCs foram conectadas em razão das ligações entre UCs não possuírem ponderação de limite de distância para a dispersão de espécies, forçando dessa forma, a ligação entre elas. KUMAR, 2018). A rede ecológica urbana proposta neste estudo é uma solução baseada na natureza que pode proporcionar o aumento de fluxos biológicos na paisagem urbana, e consequentemente a manutenção ou a melhorias dos serviços ecossistêmicos prestados à população, além de proporcionar melhores experiências ao ar livre para a população urbana (METZGER, 2006;MELLO et al, 2020;WHEELER et al, 2020;XIE;BULKELEY, 2020).…”

Role of Smart Cities in Creating Sustainable Cities and Communities: A Systematic Literature Review

“…Some studies focus on the importance of environment monitoring in smart cities [43]. For example Dwevedi et al [43] identified six environmental factors, such as landscape and geography, climate, atmospheric pollution, water resources, energy resources, and urban green spaces for Smart City Mission in India.…”

“…Some studies focus on the importance of environment monitoring in smart cities [43]. For example Dwevedi et al [43] identified six environmental factors, such as landscape and geography, climate, atmospheric pollution, water resources, energy resources, and urban green spaces for Smart City Mission in India. These factors should be integrated in the development of smart cities and to be included in the monitoring system, which will be available through online platform to public to ensure that the society can participate in identifying the problems and offering help with the solutions.…”

“…The studies focused on energy for smart cities, particularly on renewable and green energy [13][14][15], and energy efficiency [20][21][22]. Also, the reviewed studies paid attention to the environment monitoring [42,43], air quality [44][45][46], and water quality [2,49,50]. For the city environment to be sustainable it is important to monitor the quality of water and air and also use energy resources efficiently.…”

“…Future studies should focus on other parameters such as sulphur dioxide, PM10 Particles, and Nitrogen Dioxide. Finally, with the increasing number of natural hazards and climate-related challenges [43], it is important to find a way of using resources and provisioning for the future generations. This study has a number of limitations.…”