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What is PD 8100 - Smart cities about?
PD 8100 is a British standard used for smart cities. PD 8100 can be your best guide in planning, and implementing smart city strategies. PD 8100 provides guidance for city leadership on the applicability of smart city approaches to their city. City leadership includes everyone in a strategic position within a city whose decisions have a significant impact on the way the city functions, and develops, whether they be from the public, private or community sectors.
PD 8100 aims to provide a balanced picture of the potential benefits of smart city strategies, and provides recommendations on how to identify the first steps towards making a city smarter.
PD 8100 covers the role of technology, and data in providing tools in this process. PD 8100 covers the role of standards, based on good practice from successful smart city initiatives, in providing building blocks that a city can use to develop, and implement its own effective smart city strategies.
Who is PD 8100 - Smart cities for?
PD 8100 on smart cities overview is useful for:
- National, and local government departments
- Utility companies
- Healthcare providers
- Transport service providers
- Construction companies
- Network companies
- City planners, and developers
- Designers
- ICT solution vendors of any size
Why should you use PD 8100 - Smart cities?
Smart cities enable not only just smarter things but also smarter decisions. A smart city uses advancements in technologies to promote better decision-making for city officials, and their residents. PD 8100 is useful in understanding the city concepts across different infrastructure strategies. This helps in building the framework which is useful in planning, and delivering smart city strategies. With the help of PD 8100 framework, you can normalise, and classify the information which is useful for determining the need, and behaviour of citizens or residents. PD 8100 is useful in transforming the city’s ability to meet future challenges, and deliver future aspirations of developing smart cities.
PD 8100 specifies the benefits of the strategies, and recommendations towards making the city smart. PD 8100 can be your best guide in planning, and implementing advanced infrastructure projects that help in the development of cities by using smart technologies.
