ABSTRACT
This chapter introduces the state-of-the-art smart urban information technologies, and their use and contributions in dealing with complexity and uncertainty and in generating sustainable and liveable urban environments. It discusses infrastructural information technologies, such as the World Wide Web, broadband and mobile broadband; and locational and sensing technologies, such as geographic information science technologies, radio frequency identification, ubiquitous sensor network and context-aware computing. The demand for faster mobile broadband is an outcome of the widening of mobile networks. Geographic information sciences are among the disciplines that directly contribute to increasing the intelligence of cities and support the development of smart cities. Finally, the chapter explains ubiquitous computing and augmented reality technologies, such as mobile and built ubiquitous computing environments, and mobile augmented reality technologies; and convergence technologies, such as internet and media convergence, marketing convergence and telecommunications convergence.
