Comm. Smart Cities and IoT supplement Smart Cities and IoT | Seite 5

contents 28 S m a rt p u b l i c s ec to r 20 Charting the progress governments and public sector institutions are making with respect to the roll out of smart applications and development of the Internet of Things S m a rt views A couple of critical points about smart cities – their primary purpose is to improve the lives of citizens, and they are an inevitable part of our future 38 Pa rt i n g s h ots 32 S m a rt views Increasingly, stadiums need to be as smart as their fans. No longer happy with simply spectating, fans are not only morphing into super fans: they’re becoming smart fans 3 Dubai is the ideal location from which to assimilate and disseminate developments in the burgeoning area of smart cities and what makes them tick, given the very public aspirations the emirate has made Published with the support of: