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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Chambers, Joseph
• Evans, James

Titel

Informal urbanism and the Internet of Things: Reliability, trust and the reconfiguration of infrastructure

Ist Teil von

• Urban studies (Edinburgh, Scotland), 2020-11, Vol.57 (14), p.2918-2935

Ort / Verlag

London, England: Sage Publications, Ltd

Erscheinungsjahr

2020

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• Of the build out of humanity predicted up to the end of the century, a substantial portion will occur within informal urban settlements – areas characterised by poor access to infrastructure and services. There is a pressing need to better understand how and with what implications the growing proliferation of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, as a component of smart urbanism, are being applied to address the challenges of these areas. The following paper addresses this research gap, showing how IoT technology is reconfiguring trust within water and energy infrastructures in Nairobi. We apply work on informal urban infrastructures and smart urbanism to three case studies, producing novel insights into how IoT technologies reconfigure connections between users, providers and infrastructures. This reconfiguration of trust smooths chronic infrastructural uncertainties and generates reliability within informal settlements and, in doing so, leads to increased personal economies. We conclude by considering how these examples provide insights into the implications of IoT for everyday urbanisms in informal settlements and how these insights relate to global smart city debates more widely. 世纪末预测的人类建筑中的很大一部分将位于非正规城市住区，这些区域的特点是基础设施和服务的匮乏。我们迫切需要更好地理解的是，作为智慧城市化的一个组成部分，物联网技术的增长和普及如何被用于应对这些区域面临的挑战，以及由此产生了哪些影响。本文展示了物联网技术如何在内罗毕的水和能源基础设施供应中重新配置信任，从而解决了这一研究空白。我们将关于非正规城市基础设施和智慧城市化的研究应用于三个案例，对物联网技术如何重新配置用户、提供商和基础设施之间的关系提出了新的见解。信任的这种重新配置缓解了长期的基础设施不确定性，并在非正规住区中产生了可靠性，从而增加了个人经济效用。最后，我们探讨这些例子在物联网对非正规住区的日常城市生活的影响方面带来的启示，以及这些启示与更广泛的全球智慧城市辩论之间的联系。