Methodological Proposals for the Development of Services in a Smart City: A Literature Review

Abstract

This literature review analyzes and classifies methodological contributions that answer the different challenges faced by smart cities. This study identifies city services that require the use of artificial intelligence (AI); which they refer to as AI application areas. These areas are classified and evaluated, taking into account the five proposed domains (government, environment, urban settlements, social assistance, and economy). In this review, 168 relevant studies were identified that make methodological contributions to the development of smart cities and 66 AI application areas, along with the main challenges associated with their implementation. The review methodology was content analysis of scientific literature published between 2013 and 2020. The basic terminology of this study corresponds to AI, the internet of things, and smart cities. In total, 196 references were used. Finally, the methodologies that propose optimization frameworks and analytical frameworks, the type of conceptual research, the literature published in 2018, the urban settlement macro-categories, and the group city monitoring–smart electric grid, make the greater contributions.

The government of Indonesia’s smart city development: Fiscal capacity, cognitive models in decision making, excessive caution about future accrual of benefits, and null regulatory leadership

“…From other perspectives, developing smart city applications did not disrupt the former administrative process for local citizens to new defragmented activities promising cost reductions (Appio et al, 2019;Kakderi et al, 2021;Nikki Han and Kim, 2021). Thus, we infer that regencies or cities did not act as disruptors of existing administrative processes, innovating these processes efficiently and social welfare congruently (Serey et al, 2020;Ramirez Lopez and Grijalba Castro, 2021;Okafor et al, 2022). Finally, we reveal that developing a smart city with an unclear mission to be accomplished would not move local citizens to be involved and used as a learning repository (Ma et al, 2018;Tomor et al, 2019;Zhao et al, 2021).…”

Opportunities of the Technological Trends Linked to Industry 4.0 for Achieve Sustainable Manufacturing Objectives

“…The methodology used for analyzing the studies is the systematic literature review (SLR) used by [5,[75][76][77][78][79][80][81]. This document integrates and relates 14 technological trends linked to I4.0 with three thematic areas: financial (FI), operational (OP), and sustainable (SU).…”

Reverse logistics models for the collection of plastic waste: A literature review

“…This research includes four stages: the collection of research material, description of the analysis, general characterization, and details. Several authors have used content analysis to carry out their research; for example, literature review to analyze advances in nanotechnology applied to smart packaging systems (Fuertes et al, 2016), conceptual framework for strategic management (Fuertes et al, 2020), identification, classification, and analysis of smart city services (Serey et al, 2020) and WM of electrical and electronic equipment (Ismail and Hanafiah, 2019) for RL problems in PW collection.…”

“…Based on the study of Serey et al (2020), regarding the distribution of publications by research type, the most used was conceptual research (with 22 publications) followed by qualitative studies 21, quantitative studies 18, case studies 8, and literature review 1 (Figure 3).…”