Smart City initiatives are multiplying at an accelerated pace. Hundreds of Smart City pilot projects are aiming to make urban dwelling more sustainable by leveraging automation, and digitizing interactions among technologies, people, and the physical environment. Each project is an ecosystem, with stakeholders ranging from government officials and technology firms with their near infinite supply chains to city residents. Many projects that began as experimental pilots are now integral to the way city government organizations deliver services to their constituents. An increasingly urbanized world, rapidly becoming more dependent upon sophisticated technologies, presents novel and substantial complexities to future military operations.
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