Do we really need Smart Cities?

Yes, we should definitely think and take action for the smart cities. But for the smart cities, people need to be more smarter and should have wider mindset. Since smart cities implies better infrastructure such as proper water management and supply system, power supply system, roads and transportation system, use of renewable sources of energy, digitalisation, information and communication technology, use of newer technologies, people need to be aware about this. So, govt should go hand on hand with the vision of smart cities and create awareness about it in every nook and corner in the country.

According to me, YES, we really need to convert our city's into smart cities.

I'll give all of you one simple example, which I had experienced before 3 days.

There were drinking water supply pipeline leakage, and after 6 hours we came to know that, we won't have the water supply on that day.

So there was a time delay of information and inconvenience of common people.

So smart city will include embedded systems, software, control room. So if there is any leakage embedded systems informed to control systems and without any time delay it'll convey to common people.

In my Opinion, yes, we need smart city, smart city means advanced technology, improvement in leaving standard, changes in leaving style of the people, in short it reduce the time and human effort, if we have smart cities it also contributes to economic development as well, so I think it is required more as possible.

Hi, this is Priya.

According to me, the need of smart cities quite embracing as we already came up with smart cities like Mumbai, Chennai, Kolkata, Bangalore, Hyderabad wes developed technologically and commercially. Due to the migration from villages to nearby cities leads to increase in population. It may create employment opportunities but general consumers facilities will be worse and the cost of living will also more it becomes difficult for middle and poor class families.

We can expect more smart cities only when making already existed smart cities to pollution-free and with abundant resources.

Many people have different ideas about the smart city concept. The problem is that the vision of a smart city is small and the idea is old. If you mean digitization instead of smart cities then it would sound better.

If villages of this country are developed then people will shift from cities to villages and if we concentrate on the cities itself then people will move from villages to cities (for their betterment and trying to achieve their goals and Desires).

But the name smart city is to High-Fi for small changes such as efficient processes in banks and governments and cleanliness and stuff you get it right!

So our vision must increase beyond these small imaginations! And we must have a smart city which will not be overcrowded.

Easy movement for people and have efficient transportation.

Your idea of a smart city may be much different than how I imagine it to be!

This is my opinion, current situation we need smart cities. Because we need a lot if things and facilities also. So the smart cities also give this types of facilities and also improve technology. If the rural areas people come to the smart cities and improve themselves. If we implement the smart city and increase the people economic level. That all !.

Hi guys,

Yes, we do need smart city and for why "we always look into very generic problem like unemployment, poverty, education system, but after knowing particular field can we able to point out things that are going wrong".

Now from why our question is converted into how? "how can we find the problem (corruption, unemployment poverty, education system) in most optimistic way" so for that we have use digitalization in each every field and IOT can be huge help on this. Now we have data as evidence to justified the facts bring a solution for problem.

So, yes, we do really need smart city.

First develop villages it automatically develops the cities.

Hello everyone,

Yes, we really need smart cities. The relevant points are-

1) In smart cities there will be a smart government office It's mean the time duration to complete the work will be less and peoples save their time in government offices.

2) Smart cities important to connect there nearest small town or villages so the development and growth of business is possible.

3) Important to improve government hospital, police station, railway station, bus stand and many government sectors to connect with public.

4) Smart cities important to increase job opportunity.

SMART CITY is a really good initiatives taken by the government of India. They have shortlisted some cities and will work enough to provide easy access to everything which are generating electricity, generating water supply, good housing facility, efficient transportation.

But to do this work it will have to pass through many loopholes one of them is corruption and lack of resources. It further can lead to a vast difference between rich and poor where working class may find it difficult to reside there.

Idea is good but sufficient effort should be made to execute it successfully.