ABSTRACT

As explained in the beginning of this book, the overwhelming leverage of miniaturization, digitization, distribution, consumerization, industrialization, and deeper connectivity technologies has a number of trendsetting and transformational implications for IT as well as for businesses across the globe. e principal one among them is the enormous growth in data size and the greater variability in data scope, structure, and speed. With a growing array of data sources, the data being generated, captured, transmitted, stored, and analyzed are tremendously huge. As data are turning out to be a strategic asset for any organization to be decisive, distinctive, and disciplined in its operations, offerings, and outputs, newer technologies, tips, and tools are being unearthed to smartly stock and subject all incoming data to a variety of deeper investigations to gain actionable insights in time. Extracting and extrapolating knowledge out of data heaps in time especially goes a long way in empowering every kind of enterprise to be exceptionally efficient. e fast-evolving domain of big data analytics (BDAs) is therefore being viewed as a blessing in disguise by worldwide institutions, innovators, and individuals aiming to be competitive and cognitive in their deals, deeds, and decisions. Governments, cities, and citizens are bound to be affected owing to the continuous growth of data (data through business transactions and scientific experiments; social and people data; system, sensor, actuator, and machine data, etc.). Any organization that takes care of all the data being produced within as well as outside is going to be highly right and relevant toward its constituents, customers, clients, and consumers. In this chapter, we illustrate how BDA plays an enormous

role in bringing in the expectant big transformations for city infrastructures and ultimately in the quality of city residents’ lives.