| Abstract |
Nowadays, smart cities are becoming an increasing phenomenon. The main reason for their emergence is the rapidly rising population of cities, which brings new challenges. More than half of the world population currently lives in the cities. Cities will be subject to many alarming issues, such as waste treatment, lack of resources, air quality, health and quality of life of the population, various transport bottlenecks and aging or insufficient infrastructure. In addition to technical and material problems, a new set of different social and organizational problems is evident. These are mainly associated with different human values and also with different social, community and political views. The current responses to these challenges are smart cities. Changes in existing cities and building of new intelligent cities is key to resolving population-related problems, pollution and the efficient use of different resources. This paper contains the definition, analysis, and categorization of the basic concepts of smart cities. We also specified an analysis of a smart environment, one of the six basic areas of the smart city. In the sphere of the smart environment, the problem of noise pollution is introduced. The concept of a smart city is based on the use of modern information and communication technologies. These technologies are included in so-called Fourth Industrial Revolution (Indutry 4.0) and represent a new generation of integrated hardware, software and network technologies. In this paper we specify technologies that allow for the collection, dissemination and analysis of different information in real time. By using analyzed information, it is subsequently possible to make effective decisions, search for new alternatives, optimize different processes simplify the various activities and thus improve lives of citizens. With help of new technologies, it is possible to radically change the urban environment or increase the potential of different areas in order to increase the efficiency of different parts of the city. We designed and created a mobile application. The role of the application is to monitor and subsequently provide information on noise pollution in different part of the smart city, thereby improving the quality of life of the city's inhabitants. We implemented and verified the model in Banska Stiavnica town, Slovakia. |