DEFINITION

Smart Infrastructure are the systems transmitting, analyzing, measuring, monitoring the data collected through the sensors used within the scope of Smart Environment, Smart Transportation and Communication Technologies, well-responding to the user requirements and environmental changes, as well as constituting public value.

MOTIVATIONS

  • Minimizing waste in landfills
  • Receiving or extracting valuable resources from waste
  • Reducing the use of natural resources by recycling
  • Reducing the risks of human health and environmental pollution
  • Reducing costs with proper planning
  • Ensuring water savings
  • Informing users in real-time
  • Prepare for bad weather conditions
  • Prevention of floods and risk monitoring through advanced water management
  • Efficient maintenance and discharge of the wastewater network
  • Reducing operating and investment costs
  • Ensuring the safety of life and property
  • Ensuring efficient use of resources
  • Ensuring improved traffic flow and security
  • Reduction of carbon emissions
  • Use of roads in accordance with the capacity
  • Ensuring multidimensional data exchange between human-vehicle-infrastructure-centre
  • Establishing the infrastructure to increase mobility
  • Increased productivity with reduced travel time
  • Ensuring the availability of electric vehicles
  • Improved driver safety and accident management
  • Regulation of variable speed limits and lane management
  • Increase in the value of real properties in the surrounding area
  • Improving connection capacity and speed
  • Ensuring sectoral development based on competition and in line with market requirements
  • Reducing unemployment rates by creating new job opportunities
  • Increasing user confidence in the Internet
  • Supporting data centres
  • Creation of strong internet exchange points
  • Diversification of access technologies offered to citizens

APPLICATIONS

  • Waste Recycling Facilities
  • Smart Waste Containers and Carrier Systems
  • Smart Irrigation
  • Smart Parking Management and Payment Solutions
  • Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure

CHALLENGES

  • High unit prices of technological products to be used
  • Difficulty in planning material volume, type and quantity and seasonal Changes during the operation phase
  • In terms of logistics, container and truck type determination, route Planning, fuel use and scheduling challenges
  • The problem of scent in containers
  • High Investment costs
  • Conflict of competing systems, use of different network standards
  • Insufficient regulations
  • Technology evolves faster than regulations
  • Long-term costs
  • Lack of collaborative interoperability approach
  • Pressures on the water system such as population growth, increased Water pollution, increased flooding, longer droughts
  • Ageing infrastructure anxiety