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3 Smart Ecosystem where the analysis of the interconnected information should yield new insights
for driving decisions and actions that improve process outcomes of systems, organizations, and
industry value chains.
4 Smart Governance to facilitate the interconnection of urban components accompanied by
integrated application systems that need to be supported by urban scale management with
the coordination of urban critical systems to make a city run efficiently and in a smart manner.

Recommendation ITU-T Y.4900 outlines the main aspects of smartness through the lens of
sustainability. According to this international ITU standard, the sustainability of a smart city is based
on four main aspects :
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• Economic: The ability to generate income and employment for the livelihood of the inhabitants.

• Social: The ability to ensure that the welfare (safety, health, education) of the citizens can be
equally delivered despite differences in class, race or gender.

• Environmental: The ability to protect future quality and reproducibility of natural resources.
• Governance: The ability to maintain social conditions of stability, democracy, participation and
justice.

IEEE Standards also chart the domains relating to smart cities aiming at guiding humanity and
serving the citizens (see Figure 2). Some of the vertical standards include :
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• Smart Grid • Infrastructure Management
• Transportation • Industrial Automation/Smart Factory
• Digital Health • Smart Home

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