This implies that cities can get smarter and better equipped to develop new intelligence in monitoring, understanding and responding to a wide range of urban problems.
A gap of knowledge exists in monitoring, understanding the causal relationships and managing risks to wildlife from cyanide-bearing waste solutions and tailings.
For example, Honebein et al. [6] defined people as the only true smart part of a smart grid; therefore, monitoring, understanding, and promoting the end-users' roles from passive to active is considered as a fundamental action in smart grids.
Accordingly, it has been suggested that the potential of monitoring, understanding, and analyzing the city through advanced ICT can well be leveraged in advancing its contribution to the goals of sustainable development.
The cyberinfrastructure provides a pervasive computational ecosystem, integrating grid computing infrastructure with high-performance backend resources, data warehouses, sophisticated client applications, new instruments, and embedded sensors, thus enabling a new paradigm for monitoring, understanding, and managing ecological and environmental systems.
However, they all pertain to ICT of the new wave of computing, an integration of UbiComp, AmI, the IoT, and SenComp, which will in the near future be the dominant mode of monitoring, understanding, analyzing, and planning smart sustainable cities to improve sustainability [5, 6].
In all, while pervasive sensing and computing infrastructures allow for monitoring, understanding, and analyzing urban life in terms of infrastructure, built form, administration, and ecosystem and human services, pervasive networking infrastructures allow for collecting and coordinating extensive data in terms of how these data are stored, made accessible, and utilized.
Technical advances are leading to a pervasive computational ecosystem that integrates computing infrastructures with embedded sensors and actuators, and are giving rise to a new paradigm for monitoring, understanding, and managing natural and engineered systems – one that is information/data-driven.
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