Smart community guideline: Case study on the development process of smart communities in Japan

Abstract

With the increasing demand for a sustainable society, smart community - a community that focuses on both environmental, social, and information technology efforts - become one of the answers to provide a more sustainable society. Despite the urgency to develop a smart community, the definition of what requirement should be included and the guideline on how to develop a smart community is not enough. In this paper, a case study on the Japanese smart community development measures is done, and the general development process of Japanese smart community is suggested based on the measures. The study was done on five representative cases and 14 measures were collected and classified into three categories based on the development process.