Smart Technologies for Smart Life

Abstract

Purpose: Study and systemization of the area of interest referred to as “smart technologies”. Methodology: Descriptive method, content analysis method, intersubject analysis method, concept analysis method, and phenomenological analysis method were used in writing this paper. Results: Smart technologies increasingly penetrate the contemporary world, having a significant impact on the quality of human life and socioeconomic development in general. Terms related to the subject area “smart technologies” have been explored, which made it possible to split the general concept of smart technologies into smart information technologies, smart materials technologies and smart social-political technologies. In order to identify the terms that are related to smart technologies, the database of the All-Union Institute of Scientific and Technical Information of the Russian Academy of Sciences has been analyzed (2001–2019). The classification of smart technologies has been proposed. Brief consideration has been given to the basic smart technologies and fields of their application. It is pointed out that most studies are excessively focused on software, hardware and technology support for smart technologies and systems. In the context of this research, smart technologies are regarded as an umbrella term encompassing a wide range of issues and approaches to this area of interest. Despite the growing interest and a large number of papers in this field, smart technologies need theoretical justification and further comprehensive research.