Rise of the smart cities in Sri Lanka

Abstract

Today nations are presently concentrating on getting to be noticeably smart with a specific end goal to defeat the difficulties of expanding urban populace and practical improvement. Therefore, cities are heavily address their studies into energy management, telecommunication, transport, health, agriculture, surveillance, water resource systems, sewerage systems that anchor around reduce costs of living, improve efficiency and effectiveness of work, and deliver the quality as well as satisfaction of life. In other word it’s about productive thinking, innovation of latest technologies and devices which make life easy, ecologically sustainable transformation and entrepreneurial spirit counting investigation of financial advancement. As well as “Smart Technology” is obligatory which specifically, implies enhancement of mobility, transport, effectiveness of power generation process as well as optimum utilization of energy, entrepreneurial dynamics, systems based on information technolgy along with other essential services. As other nations in the world, today Sri Lanka also mainly focusing on becoming smart in near future. Therefore this paper first explain smart city concept with IoT technologies, secondly discusses recent smart projects, challenges and issues related with smart implementations in Sri Lankan context.