SMART GRID AND TRAFFIC CONGESTION MANAGEMENT WHERE BIG DATA ANALYTICS CAN BE USEFUL FOR DECISION MAKERS AND CITY PLANNER
To start with this concept, we need to have a knowledge of a few basic things like what is a smart city, how and which technologies are put in to use for its planning and management like big data or IoT.
WHAT IS A SMART CITY?
Smart city means different thing to different people. Its conceptualization varies from city to city, country to country depending on the level of development, willingness to change and reform, resources and aspirations of the city residents. A smart city would have a different connotation in India than, say, Europe. Even in India, there is no one way of defining a Smart city. In the imagination of any city dweller in India, the picture of a smart city contains a wish list of infrastructure and services that describes his or her level of aspiration. Urban planners ideally aim at developing the entire urban eco-system, which is represented by the four pillars of comprehensive development-institutional, physical, social and economic infrastructure.
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It includes substation, switches, wires, transformer etc. Like Smart Phone means a phone with a computer in it, Smart Grid means computerizing the electric utility grid. A Smart Grid is an electricity network based on digital technology that is use to supply electricity to consumers via two-way digital communication. This system allows for monitoring, analysis, control and communication within the supply chain to help improve efficiency, reduce energy consumption, reducing cost, and maximize the transparency and reliability of the energy supply chain. The Smart Grid is introduced with the aim of overcoming the weaknesses of conventional electrical grids by using smart meters where each device on the network can have sensors to gather data - power meters, voltage sensors, fault detectors,
Anselm’s classical ontological argument is criticized precisely for its attempt to define God into existence. The argument is deductive and its form known as reduction ad absurdum. “That is, it begins with a supposition S (suppose that the greatest conceivable being exist in the mind alone) that is contradictory to what one desires to prove” (Pojman 41). In other words, the argument attempts to show a contradiction or absurdity in the opposite view in order to claim his own view is correct.
Big Data is a term used to refer to extremely large and complex data sets that have grown beyond the ability to manage and analyse them with traditional data processing tools. However, Big Data contains a lot of valuable information which if extracted successfully, it will help a lot for business, scientific research, to predict the upcoming epidemic and even determining traffic conditions in real time. Therefore, these data must be collected, organized, storage, search, sharing in a different way than usual. In this article, invite you and learn about Big Data, methods people use to exploit it and how it helps our life.
The strength of any analysis lies in garnering a profound understanding of the phenomena under review. Using the principles of systems thinking the authors – three researchers from Bristol University, U.K. - first set about on the task of improving their understanding of a highly complex proposition such as a smart city. They did not become starry-eyed by the glamour of current technology offerings. Instead, they went about the painstaking task by developing a value-chain of a smart city, and checking for linkages between activities and viable opportunities for further research and development.
With these technological advances, increasing reliance on complex technological networks for survival and the connection of bodies with the urban space through electronic and digital mediums, the city cannot simply be explained in terms of physical, tangible territories and material networks. Instead, the city should be thought more like urban systems, circuits and networks operating like a computer matrix, where urban experiences and environments are straddling the boundary between real and virtual, which is becoming increasingly blurred by cybernetic and bio technologies.
Greater shift towards smart grids, smart metering and building automation: Smart grids helps in intelligent distribution resulting in minimal losses whereas measurement and reporting of consumption in real time is achieved by smart meters.
Malaysia is an ambitious country which has its own target and goals. A vision known as Vision 2020 was developed in order to make Malaysia as good as other well develops country by the year 2020. In order to achieve the vision, a first step was taken. On 27th June 1998, our fourth Prime Minister had launched Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC) which a world-first, world-class act- in order to help world’s companies test limits of technology and prepare themselves for the future. For the first time ever, the MSC bring together an integrated environment with all the unique elements and attributes that are necessary to build a perfect global multimedia climate. Length of this ‘greenfield’ corridor consumes of 15 kilometers wide and 50 kilometers long which starts from the Kuala Lumpur City Centre (KLCC), itself an intelligent precinct, which houses the world’s tallest buildings – down south to the site of the region’s largest international airport, the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA). There are two world’s first Smart Cities are being develop in the Corridor which are Putrajaya known as the new seat of government and administrative capital of Malaysia where the concept of electronic government will be introduced and Cyberjaya, the intelligent city with multimedia industries, R&D centres, a Multimedia University and operational headquarters for multinationals wishing to direct their worldwide manufacturing and trading activities by using multimedia technology. In order to accomplish the initiative, Multimedia Development Corporation (MDC) – fully empowered “one-stop super shop” wholly focused on ensuring the unconditional success of the MSC and its companies which has envisions ...
The Multimedia Super Corridor (MSC Malaysia) was establish in 1996 with the aspiration of becoming global hub for ICT and multimedia innovation, operation and services and to transform Malaysia into a knowledge- economy and achieve develop nation status in line with vision 2020. The number of companies that have status MSC rise in 1994 to 1997 approximately 2000 companies join it. Malaysia is the nations that live by guiding in five years developments master plan. Providing the ultimate background to these programmes is Vision 2020, a national agenda sets out specific goals and objectives for long-term development which is related with MSC. The chief architect of this vision is Malaysia's Prime Minister, Dato' Seri Dr Mahathir Mohamad. Malaysians have responded robustly to his challenge to become a fully developed and knowledge-rich society by year 2020. The length of the Multimedia Super Corridor is 15 kilometer wide and 50 kilometre longs and call as ‘greenfield corridor’. MSC location starts from the Kuala Lumpur City Centre (KLCC) and down south to the site of the region’s largest international airport, the Kuala Lumpur International Airport (KLIA) which launched on the 27 Jun 1998. Putrajaya and Cyberjaya is the two of the world’s first smart cities that being developed in the corridor. Now Putrajaya is the new seat of government and administrative capital of Malaysia where the concept of electronic government. Cyberjaya become an intelligent city because have multimedia industries, R&D centres, a Multimedia University and operational headquarters to direct their worldwide manufacturing and trading activities through multimedia technology.
From 13% world urban population in twentieth century to 50% in 2010 shows the urban trend. This trend of urban growth is more rapid in the developing countries. There is a need to implement sustainable development and urban development to decrease human activities on environment. To achieve sustainable urban development there are four urban forms Neo-traditional development, Urban Containment, Eco-city and Compact city. These all urban form are comprised of seven design principles a) compactness b) density c) Mixed land use d) sustainable transportation e) passive solar design f) diversity g) green
Fog computing ‘s characteristics like mobility, proximity to end-users, low latency,location awareness, heterogeneity and due to its real-time applications fog computing platform make fog the appropriate platform for Internet of Things and it can positively affect operational costs. All problems related to congestion and latency are now resolved by Fog computing.Fog computing also provides an intelligent platform to manage the distributed and real-time nature of emerging IoT infrastructures. Developing these services at the edge through fog computing will lead to new business models and opportunities for network operators. By using the concepts of fog computing, if the these kind of processing use the same device, data generated can be use immediately and give user better experience. Therefore fog computing will play a vital role in Internet of things
Traffic data are needed in research, planning, designing and regulation phases of traffic engineering and are also used in established priorities and schedules of traffic improvements. The traffic engineer must acquire general knowledge of traffic volume characteristics in order to measure and understand the magnitude, composition, and time and route distribution of volume for each area under his jurisdiction.
There is no clear definition of smart city. Smart city carry a vision that an urban space is well planned and structured, technologically sound and environment friendly. It should evolve itself as the technology advance. It should be highly integrated with latest technologies which help in making people live livable, workable and sustain able.
Smart Cities by focusing solely on technology can lead to continuation of suboptimal design of urban infrastructure thus leading to wastage and misallocation of public resources. Smart Cities have no incentive to upgrade the pre-internet physical infrastructure. Further the technology is short lived and risks of obsolescence would require constant investments. Thus smart cities are essentially being seen as smart services like smart grids, smart lighting, smart parking, smart buildings etc. and not the improvement of the core physical infrastructure, which enables all those services. The current discourse promotes a idea of smart cities as technocratic fiction for urban management wherein data and software suffice with knowledge, interpretation and thematic experience are superfluous
Building a GIS system from the ground up is a very time consuming and extremely expensive venture. This is why only large metropolitan areas have developed or are developing GIS systems.
One first issue is introduced in the article Civil Engineering Grand Challenges: Opportunities for Data Sensing, Information Analysis, and Knowledge Discovery written by several engineers. Ten current challenges were selected to be investigated further five have been included here. First to analyze was high building energy consumption, which includes: lightning, heating, cooling, and running of appliances. With the resource scarcity ...
The notion of sustainable city has mounted a paramount place in the contemporary urban planning. In the world Conservation strategies in1980, the concept of sustainable development was firstly introduced.