A study on data driven technologies involved in the development of viable anticipated smart cities

Abstract Smart cities are trying to make better choices and boost standard of living on data and emerging technologies. More detailed and real-time knowledge allows agencies to track incidents as they occur, identify how patterns of demand evolve and adapt rapidly and cost effectively. Intelligent city policies will include anything from electricity, transit services, street lighting and even waste disposal. The aim is to make daily life simpler and safer for the people living and working in the city by leveraging data and technologies, while optimizing resource usage. This article brings insight about many evolving and advanced data driven technologies that can be infused in to various fields of urban city like infrastructure, education, transportation, healthcare, energy and many more. This will enables the collection of intelligent data around the city and provide ecofriendly and quality life to the people. Security is one of the major concern when coming to data driven technologies and various measures to provide privacy and safety handling of data is discussed in this article.