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Category Term Acronym Meaning
Smart City LPWAN Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) is a type of wireless communication wide area
network. It facilitates long-range communications at a low bit rate between connected objects
(along the lines of a network through which city infrastructure can communicate).
Smart City Multi-modal Simply a system that facilitates a variety of transport options, such as cycling, bus, light rail train,
transport ferry or walking.
Smart City Open Data Data that is freely available for everyone to use without copyright patent or other restrictions.
Smart City Platform as a A category of cloud computing services that provides a platform to facilitate the development
service and management of digital applications.
Smart City Predictive The use of statistical techniques such as predictive modelling, machine-learning and data
analysis mining to analyze data and make predictions about the future.
Smart City Sensors An electronic component, module or subsystem used to detect events, triggers or changes in
the surrounding environment.
Smart City Situational Awareness of the surrounding environment or the perception of environmental elements and
awareness events and understanding of their meaning. For example: autonomous vehicles have situation
awareness.
Smart City Small data Small data refers to highly specific fragments of data collected by a large number of sensors.
The data, such as air quality measurements, are of small size but very precise in terms of time
and place.
Smart City Smart City A type of smart city technology or system that has a specific function: such as smart street
APP lighting, smart bins or smart drains.
Smart City Smart city The integration of smart technologies into the fundamental systems that serve a city or
infrastructure municipal area.
Smart City Smart city Streetlights that can be controlled wirelessly to save energy and reduce maintenance costs. The
streetlighting wireless network controlling street lighting can also be expanded to connect sensors that gather
data on weather conditions, air pollution and more.
Smart City Smart drains Drains equipped with sensors that send alerts when they are in danger of over-sitting or
overflowing, and collect fill rate that can be used for highly efficient predictive cleaning
operations.
Smart City Smart grid An enhanced electrical grid that uses analogue or digital technology to gather and act on
information such as supplier or consumer behaviour to automatically improve efficiency and
sustainability of electrical distribution.
Smart City Smart A network that contains built-in diagnostics, management, fault tolerance and other capabilities
networks to prevent downtime and maintain efficient performance.
Smart City Smart parking A system that helps drivers find vacant parking spaces using sensors and communication
networks.
Smart City Smart A smart sustainable city is an innovative city that uses information and communication
Sustainable technologies (ICTs) and other means to improve quality of life, efficiency of urban operation
Cities and services, and competitiveness, while ensuring that it meets the needs of present and future
generations with respect to economic, social, environmental as well as cultural aspects. Source:
Recommendation ITU-T Y.4900
Smart City Smart waste Waste receptacles, such as city litter bins and commercial waste bins, equipped with connected
sensors that collect and share data on, for example, the need for and frequency of waste
collections.
Smart City Sustainability The maintenance and betterment of the ecological, social and economic health of a city.
Smart City Traffic With this type of smart street lighting, the brightness of the street varies electronically based
adaptive on real-time traffic flow data.
lighting
Smart City Ubiquitous A hyper-connected smart city: all information systems working in the city are linked and virtually
cities (U-cities) everything is connected to a cohesive city platform.
Smart City UNB Network A type of LPWAN pioneered by Telensa to connect smart city sensors and controls at low cost
for the rapid integration of smart city applications.
Smart City Unstructured Information that lacks pre-defined data model for interpretation or analysis
data
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