Smart City - powered by Microsoft Dynamics 365 - Part-1

Smart cities are becoming the need of the hour, and this blog focuses on their increasing importance, as a growing population creates many challenges for cities to provide sustainable living to their citizens. Most cities are facing multiple challenges like aging infrastructure, competition, increasing population, and rising citizen expectations. Smart cities utilizing modern technologies can provide an optimal solution for city governments to provide a better quality of life for citizens.

In this blog, the author Mihir Shah also highlights the siloed business model of city governments and the compliance issues they face. The citizens are demanding transparency and accountability in the entire process of how their tax dollars are being utilized. Smart City focusing on modernization, increased engagement of its citizens and the use of modern technology can help cities to compete with other cities, attract corporations, and improve the quality of life for the current and future citizens.

In the next blog, the author suggests exploring how Microsoft Dynamics 365 with Azure IOT can power a Smart City solution.

Ref: (1) UN Dept. of economic and social affairs - https://www.un.org/development/desa/en/news/population/2018-revision-of-world-urbanization-prospects.html