Smart City Applications In Digital Age: State-Of-Art Review and Critique

Year 2019, Volume: 1 Issue: 1, 37 - 42, 30.12.2019

Musab Talha Akpınar

Abstract

Smart cities
have attracted an extensive and emerging interest from both science and
industry with an increasing number of international examples emerging from all
over the world. However, despite the significant role that smart cities can
play to deal with recent urban challenges, the concept has been being
criticized for not being able to realize its potential and for being a vendor
hype. This study explores the evolution of smart city application research
lines in the especially, application as a scientific field. To this end,
co-word analysis is employed for 472 smart city articles related to their
applications field that were published in management information systems and
management application focused journals and business/ management journals. The research
lines indicate that the “internet of things” has the highest usage percentage,
followed by “big data analytics”, “information communication systems” and “city
application”. Research lines, such as security, mobile applications, renewable
energy, receive minimal interest amongst researchers. The current study is
amongst the first in this field that discusses how research lines in the field
could be advanced. Moreover, this paper reviews different conceptualization,
benchmarks and evaluations of the smart city application concept.

Keywords

Smart City, Application, Smart application, Research

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