Smart Cities and their Data

A look at the new Smart City, and its implications.  In the CACM.

" ... The flood of information could also create new challenges, according to Pete Beckman, director of the Exascale Technology and Computing Institute at Argonne and a leader in the Array of Things project. "We'll have so much data about our smart cities, but will we have the operating system?" asks Beckman.

Overall, the changes to these smart cities will be incremental, whether they are driven by researchers like Beckman and Catlett, urban planners, private innovators, or some combination. "You're not going to wake up one day and live in the city of the future," says Townsend. "Cities are systems of systems. It takes time to bring about large-scale change, but in the future I think we will be living in cities that fundamentally operate differently."  ... " 

See more about the Array of things project by Argonne and Chicago.