Fuzzy-Based Model to Evaluate City Centric Parameters for Smart City

Abstract

The positive initiatives developed toward smart city realization and designing to make the city more “smarter” and sustainable. The smart city represented by a unique system where diverse utility companies, stakeholders, local authorities and citizens are involved to create numerous active interactions and interdependencies. To understand the key indicators for the establishment and “acceptance of smart city” is a tough challenge for the researchers. A number of parameters such as, governance, technologies, citizens, economy, livability and so on, which are important for smart city evaluation, are evaluated in this article. The main aim of this research is to propose an appropriate methodology for the development and acceptance of smart city. A mathematical fuzzy-based model is proposed in this research for the evaluation and prediction of parameters which contribute significantly for a city to be successfully accepted as a smart city. This mathematical based model proved to be a highly scalable and cost-effective solution for the prediction of appropriate parameters for smart city acceptance.