Technical Foundation of Smart City: IoT, 5G, AI & Beyond

In this lecture we try to define the concept of a Smart City and what type of Key Functions and Features that we can think of before talking about all the technical details.

Here we go through different clauses that are defined by the Standard Bodies (In specific ISO 37106) as guidelines in building and operating a Smart City.

ITU-R document for IMT Vision 2020 and beyond becomes our starting reference document to get in discussion on how various applications as visioned in this document become part of Smart  City Development.

Let's go over how all technologies involved in development of a Smart City can be discussed in terms of 4 layers of logical architecture.

Here we try to explain what sensors are and what are IoT devices that become part of Physical layer of Smart City Architecture.

Here we shall be Referring to ISO 30141 which nicely defines the IoT Reference Architecture, and it will clarify many concepts related to IoT that we must know if we are dealing with any project related to Smart Cities.

Go into more details about the relationship of eSIM Technology wrt the IOT Devices. When eSIM is required and when it is optional.

To appreciate an example of one of the functional domains in a Smart City i.e. "Smart Connected Healthcare System".  We shall see how a typical Emergency is handled by the ambulance coordinating with City Traffic, Hospital Parking and the Hospital Readiness to handle the patient without any delays in the process.

Since we shall be referring to this Smart Health Care System as an example in this course on Smart City, let us at least discuss what may be the business drivers and outcomes of implementing as one of the functional domains in a Smart City.

Now that we discussed a typical Ambulance Journey in Smart City and also have seen Business Drivers and outcomes to design such a system, in this lecture let's see what kind of eSIM based Devices will be in use.

This lecture gives a summary of how IoT devices are managed for profile download and switching between different network connectivity as required.

List all the technologies that can be part of development of Network Layer in Smart Cities.

I am splitting this part of Network Layer description in two slides.   One where I just display the Diagram as given in the standards and the other slide is to explain the contents of this diagram.

Here we are going to talk about all the functional entities as shown in the previous diagram

Describe Main Features of Narrow Band IoT technology and how it can be used to deploy various types of IoT devices during design and development of Smart Cities.

This is where we try to summarize how the eSIM based devices and GSMA defined RSP modules are used to provide autonomous connectivity at network layer as used by applications.

Discuss all the Data Management and Analytics technologies that can be part of Smart City.

Let us look at a summary of ISO 20546 giving an overview of "Big Data" and also setup some definitions ol Terminology usually used in this domain.

There are a number of Data Processing Technologies that we should know about. So I am splitting this lecture in two parts. In this slide we shall cover some and then move on to next slide to cover some more technologies.

Continuing from Previous slide

Lets give you references to different Data Processing Technologies so that if you need to do any deep dive in any particular technology, you know where to look for.

We already talked about the example of Smart Healthcare System and seen what kind of eSIM based devices are part of the system and how these get Autonomous Connectivity in our Network Layer.  Here we shall discuss how the raw data gets processed and become available to application Layer.

Here we talk about some of the Applications that are already operational in some cities and some which will be there in future.

Being an Introduction course, I want to give references to some standards documents so that if anyone has to do deep dive in any aspect of Smart City, you will know where to find.

Before we talk about another Smart City Application, let us see how Agentic AI Orchestration takes place at Application Layer for Smart Health Care System.

Here we give High Level Description of what is ITS, what are its goals and how do we compare the new digital Intersections with traditional current intersections.

Here we shall discuss what Features we can think of implementing in ITS and how do we measure the effectiveness of the System through metrics or KPIs as the system is implemented and evolves over time.

This next topic of ITS High-Level Design is split in two slides for the sake of limiting Video size.   There are 7 main steps for design and implementation that we shall go over. Four will be covered in this slide and remaining three in next slide.

Here we cover the remining three streps starting from previous slide.

Let's go over a visual diagram showing the information flow from a Digital Intersection and how it is used by AI to do Predictive Analysis and actuations of dynamic timings at the intersections.

Even though every city would like to move towards becoming a Smart City but there are always some challenges.  Lets go over these points by looking at the Stake holders involved in this field.

Lets summarize what we have learnt in this course and what are the main takeaways.