The establishment of Industry 4.0 brings along a new concept called Smart Cities, which refers to cities that utilize large amounts of data and communication technologies available to improve the performance and quality of life and urban services to ultimately reduce resource consumption, wastage and overall costs. According to the summary of the Belt and Road initiative session on urban industrial solutions under the United Nations (UN) Industrial Development Organization, the smart city concept is an urban development paradigm integrating new innovative ideas, concepts and emerging technologies such as IoT, the Internet of Services (IoS), the Internet of People (IoP) and the Internet of Energy (IoE), which ultimately form the concept of the Internet of Everything (IoE), also known as Industry 4.0 or the Fourth Industrial Revolution. This concept aims to provide effective and high-quality public services and infrastructure in real time and, thereby, a better quality of life for citizens and a move towards sustainable cities.

Chapter Contents:

• 8.1 Industry 4.0 and smart cities
• 8.2 Artificial intelligence
• 8.2.1 Machine vision and object recognition
• 8.2.2 Natural language processing
• 8.2.3 Cognitive computing
• 8.3 Role of AI in smart cities
• 8.3.1 Safety and surveillance
• 8.3.1.1 Crime detection
• 8.3.1.2 Crime prevention
• 8.3.1.3 Cybersecurity
• 8.3.2 Healthcare
• 8.3.2.1 Wellbeing
• 8.3.2.2 Early detection
• 8.3.2.3 Diagnosis
• 8.3.2.4 Decision-making
• 8.3.2.5 Treatment
• 8.3.2.6 End of life care
• 8.3.2.7 Research
• 8.3.2.8 Training
• 8.3.3 Big data
• 8.3.4 Transportation and infrastructure
• 8.3.5 Energy planning and management
• 8.4 Opportunities and risks
• References

Inspec keywords: production engineering computing; smart cities; artificial intelligence

Other keywords: United Nations Industrial Development Organization; sustainable cities; smart cities; urban development paradigm; artificial intelligence; urban services; public services; Industry 4.0; quality of life; Fourth Industrial Revolution

Subjects: Expert systems and other AI software and techniques; Public administration