94-861 AI and loT in Smart Cities
6 units, Carnegie Mellon University
COURSE MEETS FROM AUGUST 31SEPTEMBER 17 2 nights a week Tuesday and Thursday nights from 6850pm. The course aims to give an overview of the concepts and practices in the development, feasibility and sustainability of Smart Cities. The course will focus on stages of Smart City development and the design of New Urban Systems for mobility, energy, communication, food,, living working. We will explore how the design of these systems can be resilient, scalable, and reconfigurable. Smart City is defined as a city which makes use of integrated thinking, modern urban design and Information and Communication technologies to manage infrastructures more efficiently, offer services provided rationally, provide a higher quality of service to citizens, wherein all its players citizens, local companies and local Government interact with each other to evolve and improve their activity. This interoperability requires the support of smart networks and platforms. The focus will be on the technology and information infrastructure requirements for smart cities and ways to measure success. We will develop frameworks to identify problems fit for Smart City consideration in view of the local socioeconomic challenges, including the funding of such crossfunctional projects. The course on Smart Cities will be a 6credit course and would cover the following modules A. What is Smartness What are Smart cities B. Policy and Funding Issues Socioeconomic issues C Systems Thinking Wholebrain approach for Integration of ideas D. Telecommunications Sensors Networked infrastructure E. Information Systems Analytics Drawing the intelligence F. Urban Design and Architecture Sustainable growth of Cities The course will include interactive lectures and a team project. Course delivery will be through a mix of interactive classroom sessions, guest lectures, case studies.
Prerequisites: none listed
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