Smart Lifestyle

At its most basic level, a city needs to provide its people with uninterrupted access to power, water, food, transportation and healthcare by means of integrating urban planning strategies, smart mobility, energy conservation and human resource management. However, through the use of smart city technology (ICT technology) and innovation, gathered data can be used to predict system behaviour and foresee problems. This allows the city to better meet population needs consistently as well as provide additional benefits to enhance the quality of life.

This includes things like:

High quality reliable superfast broadband network
Agile transportation and mobility systems
GPS integration in all vehicles
Improved public safety and security
Cleaner air via cleaner energy sources
Smart grids used to decrease energy consumption & carbon-di-oxide emissions
Energy efficient housing that takes advantage of natural lighting
Higher quality food through urban agricultural programmes
Cost efficient healthcare
Quality education
Disaster preparedness & pro-active response to weather events

But a smart lifestyle has far more to it than just better amenities. For a more efficient way of living, there will be the use of the Internet of Things (IoT). As mentioned on the Smart Environment page, the Internet of Things is a vast connection of devices whose seamless functioning together brings ease to people’s lives. This plays a huge role in a smart lifestyle.