How to create human-centric smart cities

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“Our cities are full of living beings with senses and non-living beings with intelligent sensors – both contributing towards building a human-centric smart city.” – Arun Rishi Kapoor

User adoption is one of the key tenets when it comes to strategising a smart cities platform. Expensive infrastructure and technological changes are useless without proper end-user adoption. It is a bigger challenge when there is not sufficient data which can be monetised into some value add or revenue opportunity. Too much Implementation of disruptive technologies can confuse and result in a lack of end user buy-in. Complex and non-standard approach further hits the user adoption.

Some solutions are not opted by the people as they do not fit the demographics details of that city and also don’t match with their daily routine. For example, a city with wide roads but with harsh weather may not give preference to a car-pooling system. The demand for the solution varies from city to city and is based on various factors such as climate, political set-up, demographics details, culture, regulations, connectivity, adequacy of natural resources, transport, etc.

To truly streamline the adoption process, it is also crucial to understand what exactly the end users want and whether he or she is ready to opt a smart solution/tool without giving it a second thought. Data security and awareness of smart solutions are some of the main blockers to any new smart city initiative by the organisations or government agencies.

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