L. HOW DO YOU ENVISION THE CITY OF

FUTURE?

EVOLUTION OF CITIESTechnology has played a very fundamental role in evolution of a city.

City’s evolution is dependent on the need of its resident and if any new technology can be integrated inside the current city network which could benefit its resident without causing them any problems during its integration phase.

a) Transport Systems such as Metro, Monorail, etc b) Water Distribution Network c) Electricity Networks are all examples that have changed the lives of people and made it more simpler.

The next process in this constant phase of evolution is the introduction of smart infrastructure and service management through the use of information and communication systems.

Twentieth century cities evolved due to modernisation and applications of technology in that era. But twenty-first century will evolve on the basis of artificial intelligence i.e. cities which can work independently without being dependent on humans for input.

This is the major concept on which the Smart Cities are based upon.

The Smart Cities have started becoming a reality with development of projects in the cities such as Dubai, Barcelona and many more. These all cities will be stepping stone as it will demonstrate the ease of life, improved quality of life, reduce environmental pollutions and better use of available resources.

CITY OF FUTUREThe city of future will provide its resident with better facilities compared to the current city.

It will have its new amenities and some amenities will be upgraded.

Everything will be connected to each other for better utilisation of the city facilities.

The features which i envision in the city of future in about 10 years are as follows:

SMART PARKINGIn big cities, the major problem is the parking of vehicles.So there will be system which will show whether any parking slot is free.

Due to this, citizen will no longer have to waste time looking for free parking slots and due to which pollution will also decrease.

SMART TRANSPORT All the public transport systems will be interconnected. This will allow coordinating of different transports in real time.

So if there is a stop which is crowded then the buses will coordinate their timings and route so that they can reach that stop as early as possible.

Hyperloop which is being developed by Elon Musk will also be part of Smart Transport.

SMART TRAFFIC SYSTEMDriver will be alerted which route has heavy traffic and intelligent path selection will route them to their destination through alternate route.

Traffic lights will be automatically controlled in order to reduce the congestion to the minimum taking into account the traffic at certain times of day.

SMART URBAN LIGHTINGThe street lights uses a large amount of energy at night time.

There are some streets where at night time nobody or very few people are around.

So the intensity of light will depend on the people who are around.

SMART CITY MAINTENANCE

Citizens will now be connected to the government through an application.

They can lodge any complaint regarding potholes, road issues, water problem, electricity distribution, etc through that application.

SMART MEDICAL MONITORING

There will be monitorization systems which will update the doctor if there is any critical events such as heart attack, blood pressure, etc.

Under any critical event, an ambulance will be dispatched automatically to the patient location.

SMART SURVEILLANCE AND ID

In the surveillance cameras, there will be face recognition software which will recognise the person identity and if any rule is broken automatically a receipt is dispatched to his location.

Smart Id will be used which will be linked to the bank account, so no credit cards will need to be used the ID can be used as a mode of payment.

SMART ROBOTS

Robots will start replacing people in the system due to their reliability and accuracy.

Such as sweeper jobs will be replaced by cleaning robots and many more such jobs will start becoming more machine based.

CONCLUSION

City of Future will be a boon for its resident as their life will get easier.

More and more jobs will start generating such as engineers, managers, etc due to demand of the city.

Everything will be connected, so everything will work in parallel manner and in a case of failure there will be immediate replacement.