Growing Urbanization Lead to the Demand for Smart City Developments

Published: Jun 2021

The global smart city market is anticipated to grow at a CAGR of around 18.1% during the forecast period (2021-2027). The factors that are driving the smart city market growth include increasing urbanization, adoption of advanced technologies such as AI and IoT, and growing government initiatives towards digital infrastructure development. Advancement in energy and communication infrastructure for economic developments, digitalization in traffic management systems owing to the increased urbanization are the major contributors towards the smart city developments. The growing concern regarding security and safety has generated the demands for advanced technologies such as video surveillance, DNA phenotyping, and real-time license plate and facial recognition. Increasing environmental concerns owing to the increasing carbon emission due to higher energy consumption in urban areas leading to the demand for sustainable and efficient energy systems under smart cities mission. Increasing concerns over global warming and ozone depletion have accelerated the efforts of governments of developed and developing countries to control their carbon footprint, with governments imposing stricter regulations to limit emissions.

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Furthermore, the market players also invest significant resources toward  (R&D) activities to establish new technologies and systems for connected infrastructure to be used across smart city projects, which in turn, drives the market growth. Moreover, the partnership collaboration among players to further expand/ development in smart city projects is projected to fulfill the market prospects. For instance, in May 2021, Telefónica, in partnership with Nokia, Ineco, Stellantis, the CTAG (Automotive Technology Centre of Galicia) and SICE, promote the smart city road with the deployment of 5G and sensorisation in the Cereixal tunnel to assist driving. The partnership was taken under the framework of the 5G Galicia pilot project promoted by the Ministry of Economic Affairs and Digital Transformation. Moreover, in November 2019, Quantela Inc. and Cisco have developed a unique, market disruptive Outcome-based Project Financing Model for smart city projects. The model can aid cities to get started on their Smart City projects by converting the upfront CapEx investment to an Outcome-based payment.

Market Coverage

  • The market number available for – 2020-2027
  • Base year- 2020
  • Forecast period- 2021-2027
  • Segment Covered- 

o By Components

o By Application

  • Regions Covered-

o North America

o Europe

o Asia-Pacific

o Rest of the World

  • Competitive Landscape- Cisco Systems, Inc., Ericsson, IBM Corp, Schneider Electric SE, Siemens AG, Hitachi, Ltd., Huawei Technologies Co., Ltd., Intel Corp. among others.

Key questions addressed by the report

  • What is the market growth rate?
  • Which segment and region dominate the market in the base year?
  • Which segment and region will project the fastest growth in the market?
  • How COVID-19 impacted the market?

o Deviation from the pre-COVID-19 forecast

o Most affected region and segment

  • Who is the leader in the market?
  • How players are addressing challenges to sustain growth?
  • Where is the investment opportunity?

Global Smart City Market Report Segment

By Components

  • Hardware
  • Software
  • Others

By Application

  • Building and Infrastructure
  • Transportation System And Services
  • Safety and Security
  • Communication
  • Energy Management
  • Waste Management
  • Healthcare System and Services
  • Water Management
  • Others

Global Smart City Market Report by Region

North America

  • United States
  • Canada

Europe

  • UK
  • Germany
  • Italy
  • Spain
  • France
  • Rest of Europe 

Asia-Pacific

  • China
  • India
  • Japan
  • South Korea
  • Rest of Asia-Pacific 

Rest of the World

  • Latin America 
  • Middle East & Africa

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