41 Corporate Huawei (2014) The "smart city" concept includes ICTs, quality of life, digital city and wireless city. In a health, employment. nutshell, a smart city describes the integrated management of information that creates value by applying advanced technologies to search, access, transfer, and process information. A smart city encompasses e-home, e-office, egovernment, e-health, eeducation and e-traffic. 42 Corporate A sustainable city is made up of Quality of life, Siemens (2014) three (3) main parameters to make technologies, sure that there is an overall authorities, buildings, development of energy, health care, transport, water. buildings, transport, and water management in a city: Environmental care With right • – technologies, cities will become more environmentally friendly. Competitiveness With the right • – technologies, cities will help their local authorities and businesses to cut costs. Quality of life With the right • – technologies, cities will increase the quality of life for their residents. 43 Corporate As nations look to rebuild their Infrastructure, Patel,-Hewlett aging infrastructures and at the energy, IT, power, Packard (2014) same time take on the challenge of water, waste. global climate change, Patel argues that resource usage needs to be at the heart of their thinking. We must also take a fundamental perspective in examining "available energy" in building and operating the infrastructure. Only if we use fewer resources to both build and run our infrastructures, he says, we will create cities that can thrive for generations to come. We can only build in that way, he suggests, if we seamlessly integrate IT into the physical infrastructure to provision the resources power, water, waste, – etc. at a city scale based on the – need.
41 Corporate The "smart city" concept includes digital city and wireless city. In a nutshell, a smart city describes the integrated management of information that creates value by applying advanced technologies to search, access, transfer, and process information. A smart city encompasses e-home, e-office, egovernment, e-health, eeducation and e-traffic. ICTs, quality of life, health, employment. Huawei (2014) 42 Corporate A sustainable city is made up of three (3) main parameters to make sure that there is an overall development of energy, health care, buildings, transport, and water management in a city: • Environmental care – With right technologies, cities will become more environmentally friendly. • Competitiveness – With the right technologies, cities will help their local authorities and businesses to cut costs. • Quality of life – With the right technologies, cities will increase the quality of life for their residents. Quality of life, technologies, authorities, buildings, transport, water. Siemens (2014) 43 Corporate As nations look to rebuild their aging infrastructures and at the same time take on the challenge of global climate change, Patel argues that resource usage needs to be at the heart of their thinking. We must also take a fundamental perspective in examining "available energy" in building and operating the infrastructure. Only if we use fewer resources to both build and run our infrastructures, he says, we will create cities that can thrive for generations to come. We can only build in that way, he suggests, if we seamlessly integrate IT into the physical infrastructure to provision the resources – power, water, waste, etc. – at a city scale based on the need. Infrastructure, energy, IT, power, water, waste. Patel,-Hewlett Packard (2014)