Smart cities
Smart city initiatives across the world involve using data-capturing devices across a city to offer contextual and optimal services to the people in the city. The smart city market is expected to be anywhere from $700 billion to $2.4 trillion by 2025. It is hard to get to the right figure, but it is a huge global market across the developed world and emerging economies.
There are several smart city use cases that involve Blockchain and quantum machine learning. Some of the areas we'll touch upon in this chapter are:
- Parking
- Traffic management
- City planning
- Trash collection
Smart parking
Typically, in smart city projects, we see governments working closely with the private sector to deliver results. For example, an initiative within the UK aims at making parking cars more efficient. The process involves getting vehicle data and parking slot availability in real time. While there are several apps to hold parking data, the data standards...