Abstract
A large section of the population around the globe is migrating towards urban settlements. Nations are working toward smart city projects to provide a better wellbeing for the inhabitants. Cyber-physical systems are at the core of the smart city setups. They are used in almost every system component within a smart city ecosystem. This paper attempts to discuss the key components and issues involved in transforming conventional cities into smart cities with a special focus on cyber-physical systems in the Indian context. The paper primarily focuses on the infrastructural facilities and technical knowhow to smartly convert classical cities that were built haphazardly due to overpopulation and ill planning into smart cities. It further discusses cyber-physical systems as a core component of smart city setups, highlighting the related security issues. The opportunities for businesses, governments, inhabitants, and other stakeholders in a smart city ecosystem in the Indian context are also discussed. Finally, it highlights the issues and challenges concerning technical, financial, and other social and infrastructural bottlenecks in the way of realizing smart city concepts along with future research directions.
Highlights
We aim to give an overview of the smart city setups along with the opportunities, issues, and challenges associated with their successful implementation
With the rapid growth in the economy, the role of digitalization is highly critical to upgrade infrastructural support including physical, societal and institutional. This transformation is seen as a probable solution to several inherent and obvious city problems since it focuses on smart governance, smart IT and Communication, smart environment, smart buildings, smart businesses, and smart transportation, etc
These Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS) are an integration of components of different natures, which aim to control, manage, and monitor a physical process and adapt to the changes based on the feedback
Summary
Publisher’s Note: MDPI stays neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. With the rapid growth in the economy, the role of digitalization is highly critical to upgrade infrastructural support including physical, societal and institutional. This transformation is seen as a probable solution to several inherent and obvious city problems since it focuses on smart governance, smart IT and Communication, smart environment, smart buildings, smart businesses, and smart transportation, etc. Smart city core infrastructural support systems such as sensor networks, IoT and wireless devices, and well-equipped data centers, etc., constitute vital infrastructural mechawell-equipped data centers, etc., constitute vital infrastructural mechanisms that provide nisms thatenabling provideservices the key to enabling services to thecities smartare city. Section provides the opporSection 3 highlights the enabling technologies for smart city setups. Including inhabitants, governments, service providers, and other businesses, etc. [11,12,13,14]
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