Deep technologies are enabling the smartness of cities in three layers: transmission technologies and infrastructure, service application technologies as well as storage and analysis technologies.
Smart cities add digital intelligence to the urban world and use it to solve public problems and achieve a higher quality of life. Deep technologies are enabling the smartness of the cities in three layers: In the base we find transmission technologies and infrastructure that support the framework of the smart city, in the middle we find the data collection and service application technologies and in the top there are the storage and analysis technologies.
Deep technologies such as photonics already have a major impact on smart cities, in terms of smart lighting, sensing, and communication technologies. 5G is enabling the infrastructure for IoT that thanks to devices like connected sensors, lights and meters can collect and analyse data in real-time for the better functioning of smart cities.
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The digital infrastructure of smart cities is based on cloud technologies that can be secured by blockchain. Other breakthrough deep technologies are only in their infancy when we look at smart cities.
Furthermore, digital infrastructure of smart cities is based on cloud technologies, that storage and analyses the data used in everything connected in a smart city. Safe storing of this information is fundamental as well as data processing to turn it into useful information when making decisions. And here blockchain, that can verify identities and authorize access, is a technology secure enough to keep smart cities in business.
Apart from these evident technologies in smart cities, other breakthrough deep technologies are only in their infancy when we look at smart cities. Quantum computing, Artificial Intelligence, Robotics, Microelectronics and Biotechnology will disrupt the world we live in.
