Analysis of Smart City Technologies

Abstract

Technology, that cannot be prevented and reaches unbelievable points in the light of science, maintains a modern and technological era by offering great convenience to people in their lives. Smart Systems, Applications, and Solutions, that entered our lives with the Internet of Things, which is the technology of our age, brings a new dimension to social life at this point. The concept of Smart City, which has entered into our lives in recent years, is one of the most important examples that can be given in this regard as a large framework containing so-called intelligent systems. With this thesis, it was asked to be a guiding guide in the implementation of ideas about smart cities. Within the context of this study, it is provided to access information such as what kind of technologies should be used in the projects to be developed for smart cities and which standards should be adhered to in these technologies. Studies, researches that are related to Smart Energy, Smart Transportation, Smart Health, Smart Waste and Smart Building, which are disconnectedly and disorganizedly in the iv academical literature, have been brought together and presented as a single whole. Different points of view are evaluated by considering the challenges experienced and to be experienced in the specified smart city components. Case study is applied in this thesis in that Konya Metropolitan Municipality is handled as a smart city sample in our country and the pros and cons of the city are determined. At the same time, it is aimed to use this thesis in the emergence of relevant models for the implementation of ideas planned to be made by both public and private enterprises. For these topics, interviews were conducted with related companies and various calculations were made on the efficiency of smart systems based on real data. As a result, the positive effects of smart solutions in different smart city components to all humanity and management and their benefits are presented as a whole.