ICTs FOR SMART CITIES

Cities all around the world endeavor to advance in arrange to reply to the upcoming challenges that the increment of populace brings. The integration of technological arrangements addresses these challenges and facilitates citizens’ needs. The smart cities concept alludes to the technological advancement of cities for progressing services and quality of life by joining innovative technological standards. The purpose of this paper is to focus on smart cities by using Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to support different aspects of the worldwide marketplace driving expanded economic development. Usually interrelated with a country's quality of governance, It aims to underline the importance of Security systems in Smart Cities, but also to create world-influencing urban, and governmental methodologies, and sustainable economic growth in global business and investments. In any case, IoT (Internet of Things) integration within the cities infrastructure, requires new technology (sensors, wireless communications, cloud computing, etc.), to guarantee a dependable associated framework. The results regarding the effectiveness of the cyber-security system show that this technology is particularly promising for the smart city concept. Generally, our discoveries highlight the requirement for the sending of a crowdsourced-driven digital measurable status system, received by all the individuals and parties of a smart city, continuously taking into thought the development level that it has accomplished. The Blockchain and smart contracts are proposed to illustrate how they contribute to the system for digital measurable preparation by keeping up the Chain of Guardianship keenness and advertising a few of the essential built-in highlights, such as unchanging nature, transparency, non-repudiation, and versatility. The smart concept is a recent subject and there are few studies on this theme. This paper contributes to the discussion about the opportunity of regarding ICT as a possible source of competitive advantage of smart cities in urbanization and global Business. It will hopefully provide valuable input for future researchers who tackle the same subject.