WASTE MANAGEMENT IN SMART CITIES

Abstract

Rapid urbanization creates new challenges and issues, and the smart city concept offers opportunities to rise to these challenges, solve urban problems and provide citizens with a betterliving environment. This paper presents an exhaustive literature survey of smart cities. First, itintroduces the origin and main issues facing the smart city concept and then presents the fundamentals of a smart city by analyzing its definition and application domains. Second, a data-centric view of smart city architectures and key enabling technologies is provided. Finally,a survey of recent smart city research is presented. This paper provides a reference toresearchers who intend to contribute to smart city research and implementation.