Nokia has launched 'The Smart City Playbook', a strategy
report that documents best practices for some 22 smart cities, reports
ITRealms.
The playbook, ITRealms gathered, provides concrete guidance
to city leaders on successful strategies used by other municipalities to make
their cities smarter, safer and more sustainable.
Commissioned by Nokia and developed by Machina Research, a
leading provider of strategic market intelligence on the Internet of Things
(IoT), the playbook was developed through primary research into the strategies
and progress of 22 cities around the world.
ITRealms also reports that the study uncovered significant
diversity in the smart city strategies of different cities, but identified
three distinct 'routes' that cities are taking to make themselves smarter.
The 'anchor' route involves a city deploying a single
application to address a pressing problem such as traffic congestion, and then
adding other applications over time. The 'platform' route involves building the
underlying infrastructure needed to support a wide variety of smart
applications and services.
ITRealms also gathered that 'Beta Cities' by contrast, try
out multiple applications as pilots to see how they perform before making long-term
deployment decisions.
While the study found significant differences between
cities, even amongst those cities following the same route, it also concluded
that there are several particular practices used by successful smart cities
that would appear to be of universal benefit.
“Successful cities have established open and transparent
rules for the use of data (on which all smart cities are dependent) by government
departments and third parties, whether shared freely or monetized to cover data
management costs,” part of the report said.
In addition, Nokia says many cities that are advanced in
their smart city journeys have committed to making both information and
communications technology (ICT) and IoT infrastructure accessible to users both
inside and outside of government, and have avoided the creation of 'silos'
between government departments.
Chuks Egbune/GEE
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