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Smart City Infrastructure
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Smart City Infrastructure

by Vishal Kumar, Vishal Jain, Bharti Sharma, Jyotir Moy Chatterjee, Rakesh Shrestha
March 2022
Intermediate to advanced
384 pages
9h 36m
English
Wiley-Scrivener
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13Applicability of Utilizing Blockchain Technology in Smart Cities Development

Auwal Alhassan Musa1,2*, Shashivendra Dulawat1, Kabeer Tijjani Saleh3 and Isyaku Auwalu Alhassan2

1Civil Engineering Department, Mewar University, Chittorgarh, Rajasthan, India

2Civil Engineering Department, Kano University of Science and Technology, Wudil, Kano, Nigeria

3Regional Planning Department, Mersin University, Mersin, Turkey

Abstract

The focus of this work is to highlight general overview of reliability and resiliencies of smart cities and their devastating challenges which includes security, energy consumption, and need for controlling huge amount of data that can be done by the use of blockchain technology through the integration of smart sensors, Internet of Things (IoT), artificial intelligence, cloud computing, and powerful software. Its benefits are to both dwellers and managers involved in the smart cities development. Apart from the problems and solutions of smart cities that are related to technology, other related challenges hindering its development are lack of intervention from policy-makers, funding, skilled workforce, and existing gap between industries and academia. Therefore, there is an urgent need to invest hugely to the sector, equipped it with enough skilled manpower, as well as special fund package to support both small- and medium-scaled industries. Hence, proper implementation of proposed recommendations made, the future of smart cities especially in developed countries ...

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