Abstract
The demand for Internet of Things (IoT) deployed in cities aiding to render ‘smart’ environments with the ability to undertake autonomous processes is increasing, leading to an overexploitation of raw materials. This stresses on the natural ecosystem, rendering an undesired high pricing of ‘smart’ IoT-branded products. Faced with these ecological and economic challenges, underlying an unsustainable model, the authors believe that the next wave of innovation in cities will make use of biotechnology, where work is already being carried in independent fields relating, for example, to the storage of energy through proteins and the storage of data through synthesized strands of DNA. On the application of those techniques to smart technologies utilized in the urban fabric, cities will have the ability to generate, store, and interpret data through biological processes coupled with Artificial Intelligence (AI) with execution abilities, leading to the equation of cities as living and intelligent organisms.
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Allam, Z. (2020). Biotechnology to Render Future Cities as Living and Intelligent Organisms. In: Biotechnology and Future Cities. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-43815-9_1
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