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Ask HN: Are Smart Cities Dead?

1 pointsby matt_daemon5 months ago
This was a buzzphrase thrown a lot 4-6 years ago, but not so much today. Are smart cities dead and if not, what is the state of the art?

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ggm5 months ago
Look up Xiong&#x27;an - it&#x27;s a bit of a Xi Jinpeng vanity project but it&#x27;s big. Millions of devices. Personally I think this kind of flagship deal will die shortly after he does: the next big boss will want to show leadership by ending things as well as starting things.<p>I think Nusantara (new clean start Indonesian capital city) may have a bit of it.<p>Western European examples tend to be buried infra like smart waste disposal systems, utility metering improvements. A lot of things which could be done city wide like electricity demand management are private investment driven.<p>Things like smarter traffic light sequencing fly under the radar.