4 Commonly-Used Smart City Technologies

Four common technologies are customarily used to create smart cities. These include smart IoT devices, geospatial technology, drivers and barriers of smart energy, and smart Mobility and transportation. Each of these technologies has unique uses that improve urban life. We will discuss them in depth and outline their strengths and weaknesses.

Smart IoT Devices

In today's transportation world, Smart IoT Devices are becoming more prevalent. The devices are fitted to vehicles so that fleet managers can receive real-time location data and other details about the vehicle. This can lead to decreased maintenance costs and greater safety. Moreover, smart IoT devices can even alert authorities if something goes wrong.

Smart IoT devices can help to improve traffic flow by providing real-time information about traffic conditions, road closures, and public transportation schedules. The technology may also help commuters reduce their time spent sitting in traffic. Traffic jams are one of the major causes of transportation spillages, and using IoT devices can help drivers avoid dangerous situations and improve efficiency.

Smart IoT devices are becoming more common in transportation. Besides making travel safer, they can also improve public transport security. Smart devices can also monitor traffic violations. A smart city should have smart pubilc transportation system and majorty of the cities across the U.S. are implementing advanced cloud-based technology in their transit sytems already. One of most advanced cloud-based technology is QRyde by HBSS.

Geospatial Technology

Using geospatial technology in smart cities is an important step towards a resilient and sustainable future. With the help of geospatial data, cities can predict changes in their environment and react to them accordingly. Smart cities have a variety of applications and can help improve citizens' quality of life and economic prospects.

One of the most common applications of geospatial technology is the global positioning system (GPS). This system uses satellites to collect data that enables geolocation and navigation. The system has been around since 1993 and is even built into most modern smartphones. Geospatial Technology can also use the technology for analyzing data and generating interactive maps. Today, the most advanced versions of the GPS system has been able to evolve in the industry through transit software companies like QRyde by HBSS.

Drivers and Barriers of Smart Energy

Smart Energy is a buzzword in the world of transportation, especially when it is coupled with renewable energy sources. A smart energy system will incorporate new forms of flexibility, demand side response, energy storage, and smart networks and interconnection. The following are some key elements of this technology. A smart energy system is a great way to make transportation more efficient.

Smart energy is a term referring to energy-efficient devices and systems. Its focus is on reusable energy, which helps create a greener world and reduces costs. Several benefits of smart energy include sustainability, lowering electric bills, and reducing carbon footprint. Here, we will discuss some key drivers and barriers of smart energy.

Smart grids break the one-way distribution of energy and create two-way relationships. As a result, smart functions appear on the network to balance supply and demand and reduce energy losses. A smart grid aims to reduce its environmental impact, including the cost of operation and management. Smart energy devices and systems can reduce greenhouse emissions by as much as 5%. On the other hand, when it comes to reducing carbon footprint, AI-based transit software experts such as QRyde are dedicated in optimizing routes and enabling ridesharing which results in reducing the overall vehicle miles traveled (VMT), thereby reducing carbon emission in the cities.

Smart Mobility and Transportation

Smart Mobility and Transportation is an important parts of a city's long-term plan to improve public transportation. Cities are increasingly aware of the benefits of new mobility technologies and are also looking for ways to implement them in their cities. For example, Berlin, which adopted a smart city plan in 2015, is working on a new mobility project that focuses on the deployment of in-ground sensors along roadway intersections to deliver traffic data for intelligent traffic management. At the same time, it is also working on expanding the presence of electric vehicles. It has a EUR9 billion budget for this program, which aims to improve e-carsharing and increase the number of charging stations.

Smart Mobility and Transportation solutions improve public transportation and benefit the environment. They can reduce traffic congestion and reduce pollution while improving reliability and comfort. Smart Mobility solutions also enable users to pay for their travels through contactless systems and make bus stops easily accessible. They also help improve traffic flow, optimize network management, and reduce service interruptions.

Smart Mobility is a new concept that integrates several aspects of transportation to create more efficient and environmentally friendly cities. These include ride-sharing, public transportation, and walking or cycling. These solutions can help reduce traffic congestion, pollution, and wasted time.

Takeaway: Blending the Intelligent Transport Solutions for Smart Cities

To make transport management more effective, several cities across the world are trying to build intelligence into existing systems. Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) solutions offer features like traffic prediction, analytics and decision support, traveler information, advisory services, ticketing, and fare collection. Hence helps to monitor and manage transport more efficiently.

What if we can blend all the smart solutions comprehensively in a single system? QRyde is one such cloud-based transportation platform that seamlessly integrates with other smart systems and provides a universal App and web-based solution for citizens. It is based on intelligent transportation system (ITS) technologies, IoT device technology, and advanced payment systems.

Qryde’s Intelligent transport solution offers-

�-� Streamlined services, automated bill collections, smart parking and on-demand transportation to the citizens of a city.

�-� A robust Web API for different smart city systems and the QRyde Dashboard allows city staff and citizens to interact with a comprehensive portal for providing and receiving services.

�-� Multimode trip planning, advanced payment systems and Quick booking mechanism 

�-� Advanced Booking System

�-� Public Information System (PIS)

�-� Electronic Payment System

�-� QuOn, an advanced module for shared riding

Reviews

[JayG]

• Four common technologies are customarily used to create smart cities.

As usual, the failing grade comes early, with an obvious but basic mistake: If the reader knows what a "smart city is, they probably don't need the "article." So the first thing to appear should have been a discussion of what defines a "smart city," complete with examples, and advantage/disadvantages.

• In today's transportation world, Smart IoT Devices are becoming more prevalent.

Same mistake, repeated. Context must ALWAYS come before it's required, not after. And you must always write to your target audience. More and more, this school is looking like one of the Academy360 group, and I've seen nothing commendable about that school.

• The devices are fitted to vehicles so that fleet managers can receive real-time location data and other details about the vehicle.

Rollins Leasing, and others, were doing that over 20 years ago, shortly after GPS units became portable and useful. Do your homework!

• This can lead to decreased maintenance costs and greater safety.

Nonsense. Knowing where the truck is adds to efficiency of scheduling, and tells you that the driver is visiting his girlfriend on the way to the terminal. It effects the maintenance schedule not at all, because they know the distance traveled via the delivery schedule. And they know that before that truck leaves the terminal.

This is very sloppy work.

• Using geospatial technology in smart cities is an important step towards a resilient and sustainable future.

In other words, the student has no clue of what he's talking about and substitutes meaningless buzzwords and puffery.

Unless the assignment was to write 1000 words on some technical subject you know nothing about that will seem profound, while not requiring actual expertise, this was wasted effort.

[Abhinav Sharma]

Four common technologies are customarily used to create smart cities. These include smart IoT devices, geospatial technology, drivers and barriers of smart energy, and smart Mobility and transportation. Each of these technologies has unique uses that improve urban life. We will discuss them in depth and outline their strengths and weaknesses.