Big Data Utilization, Benefits, and Challenges for Smart City Implementation

With the rapid advancement of technology, everything is transforming into smarter versions. The term smart city means a technologically strengthened and advanced version of the city. Smart cities utilize digital information and techniques for improving services like performance, quality, etc. Big data technology and methods are utilized for handling the vast volume, high velocity and wide variety of data related to cities. This chapter discusses the big data utilization for making smart cities and also throws light on various applications where efficient analysis of services can be carried out using Big Data techniques. The main objective of this chapter will be to provide knowledge of big data implementation for the smart city and its services. This chapter will also investigate various prospects, benefits, and challenges of absorbing big data utilization for smart cities. It will also discuss some case studies related to big data applications for smart city services. It will also propose some open issues related to big data implementation for the smart city.