Big Data, the Internet of Things, and Smart City Research: A Literature Review and Research Agenda

摘要

Cities have always been at the heart of innovation. This is even more crucial in the twenty-first century with the United Nations predictions of a rapid growth in the urban population that may reach about 2.5 billion new people by 2050 [1], This accelerating growth may become unsustainable if the cities rely on the traditional systems to deliver both economic and social resources [2]. Recently, the emergence of cutting-edge tools and technological innovations, including the Internet of Things (IoT), big data analytics (BDA), predictive analytics, and industry 4.0 has created a renewal of interest toward studying cities [3-5]. Indeed, the adoption and use of these new tools and technologies are creating the so-called Smart cities, which can be defined as the 'networked infrastructures to improve economic and political efficiency and enable socio, cultural and urban development' (p. 307) [6]. For example, [7] argued that the use of the 'Internet of Things and big data analytics can develop the smart city and smart industry' [7], and thus, help to ease the current pain points associated with traffic congestion, waste and pollution management, and energy efficiency that may bring the city liveability to new levels that haven't been seen before [2].