Nowadays, with the rapid expansion of urbanization and population, environmental, social, and economic sustainability is a must to keep. Smart city technology is paramount to cope with the challenges. A smart city is a framework, predominantly composed of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), to develop, deploy, and promote sustainable development practices to address growing urbanization challenges.

In this MOOC, you will gain a thorough understanding of the most significant technologies concerned about smart city, like cloud computing, big data and system design. At the end of the journey of this 8-week online course, you will analyze a specific case under the lead of the lecturer,

This course does not have any prerequisites.

Through this course, you will:

- Gain a deep understanding of the basic concept of smart city;

- Learn about important components of smart city system

- Study the technologies widely applied in smart city system

- Understand analytical methodologies of smart city

The course was supported by Jiangnan University, IEEE, and Wuxi municipal government because Wuxi is the only city of IEEE pioneering smart city in Asia since 2015.

This is to acknowledge that the main contents of the course are from the Internet, the published papers, standards, white papers, slides and the practice of Wuxi smart city. All the contributions of the aforementioned sources are extremely appreciated. We must clarify that the material of the course is only for teaching and academic research purposes.

Through this course, you will:

- Gain a deep understanding of the basic concept of smart city;

- Learn about important components of smart city system

- Study the technologies widely applied in smart city system

- Understand analytical methodologies of smart city

This course does not have any prerequisites.

This is to acknowledge that the main contents of the course are from the Internet, the published papers, standards, white papers, slides and the practice of Wuxi smart city. All the contributions of the aforementioned sources are extremely appreciated. We must clarify that the material of the course is only for teaching and academic research purposes.