This book details applications of technology to efficient digital city infrastructure and its planning, including smart buildings.

Rapid urbanization, demographic changes, environmental changes, and new technologies are changing the views of urban leaders on sustainability, as well as creating and providing public services to tackle these new dynamics. Sustainable development is an objective by which the processes of planning, implementing projects, and development is aimed at meeting the needs of modern communities without compromising the potential of future generations. The advent of Smart Cities is the answer to these problems.

Digital Cities Roadmap provides an in-depth analysis of design technologies that lay a solid foundation for sustainable buildings. The book also highlights smart automation technologies that help save energy, as well as various performance indicators needed to make construction easier. The book aims to create a strong research community, to have a deep understanding and the latest knowledge in the field of energy and comfort, to offer solid ideas in the nearby future for sustainable and resilient buildings. These buildings will help the city grow as a smart city. The smart city has also a focus on low energy consumption, renewable energy, and a small carbon footprint.

Audience

The information provided in this book will be of value to researchers, academicians and industry professionals interested in IoT-based architecture and sustainable buildings, energy efficiency and various tools and methods used to develop green technologies for construction in smart cities.

Arun Solanki PhD is an assistant professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Gautam Buddha University, Greater Noida, India, where he has been working since 2009. His research interests span expert systems, machine learning, and search engines. He has published many research articles in international journals/conferences.

Adarsh Kumar PhD is an associate professor at the University of Petroleum & Energy Studies, Dehradun, India. His main research interests are cybersecurity, cryptography, network security, and ad-hoc networks. He has published 60+ research papers in reputed journals, conferences and workshops.

Anand Nayyar PhD is currently working in the Graduate School, Duy Tan University, Da Nang, Vietnam. He is a certified professional with more than 75 Professional Certificates from CISCO, Microsoft, Oracle, Google, Beingcert, EXIN, GAQM, Cyberoam, and many more. He published more than 300 research articles in various national and international journals and conferences. He has authored, coauthored or edited about 30 books and has been granted two patents in the areas of Internet of Things and speech processing.