The Evolution of Smart Cities

As the worldwide population is growing continuously at an unprecedented pace, a large number of individuals are moving to urban areas each and every day. Indeed novices can foresee that the urban population be doubled within a brief period of time. The world is becoming more urbanized. To handle such urbanization, it is the need of the hour to make our cities even smarter. Smart cities find new ways to manage complexity, increase efficiency and reduce expenses and provide a high quality life. This need, leads to the development of 100 smart cities as a part of "Modi's acche din vision" from the outset. This present paper aims to shed light on the often elusive definition of the concept of the "smart city".