Fourth Journal - SMART CITY THROUGH A FLEXIBLE APPROACH TO SMART ENERGY (2018)

The paper provides an overview of the development trends of the smart city. Over the past decades, the trend of the new urban model called smart city has been gaining momentum, which is an aggregate of the latest technologies, intelligent administration and conscious citizens, which allows the city to actively develop, and effectively and efficiently solve the problems it is facing. Profound changes are also taking place in the energy sector. Researchers and other specialists offer a wide variety of innovative solutions and approaches for the concepts of intelligent cities. 

The paper reviews and analyses the existing methodological solutions in the field of power industry, as well as provides recommendations how to introduce the common platform on the basis of disparate sources of information on energy resources existing in the city as an optimal solution for developing the city’s intelligence, flexibility and sustainability based on its starting conditions.

REASEARCH MODEL-FRAMEWORK

VARIABLE & ITEMS (MEASUREMENTS)

Moving toward intelligent cities and improving the quality of our life in cities, we need to understand clearly, what we are speaking about. We need to keep in mind the whole concept of a smart city, its separate aspects and vectors of developing. Smart City is an urban development that unites the needs of the citizens in a sustainable and secure way along six vectors:

1. Smart Governance

 Public and private organisations, transparency of city management and its infrastructures, open data.Mostly the claim based of IT utilization for their governance. In general, a smart city definition is to describe a developed urban area that creates sustainable economic development and high quality of life by excelling in multiple key; economy, mobility, environment, people, living, and government.

2. Smart Economy

On the basis there are the processes that support the sustainable growth of the city, its individual parts and infrastructures. Smart Economy is defined as the main base of urban development in a smart community. Competitiveness: urban organization that fosters new entrepreneurial initiatives, an increase of competitiveness and high productivity in communities with the aim of improving the quality of life.

3. Smart People

People who contribute to creativity, have critical thinking and are able to apply innovative ICT for their everyday life. Including use data and technology to create efficiencies, improve sustainability, create economic development, and enhance quality of life factors for people living and working in the city. It also means that the city has a smarter energy infrastructure.

 4. Smart Mobility

 Integrated transport and logistic systems, innovative transport solutions. Mobility today also means that the smart city independently monitors the flow of traffic and reacts flexibly to problems. In addition, mobility can be more customized using the new communication infrastructure. ... The public transportation system is the lifeline of a smart city.

5. Smart Living

Healthy and safe living through smart technologies and applications that enable responsible lifestyles, behavior and consumption. Technology — and the use of it — is the fuel that will propel cities into the future. We are seeing massive digitization of physical infrastructure and the emergence of a new critical infrastructure in the form of sensors, networks and the Internet of Things.

6. Smart Environment

sustainable increasing of renewable energy sources and green energy managed by ICT control and monitoring, waste and pollution control and smart management. Also as opportunity to ensure efficient use of resources in buildings, and the incorporation of climate change considerations.