Role of Artificial Intelligence in the Emergence of Smart Cities

Artificial Intelligence (AI) provides a significant provision for the sustainable development of smart cities. The key features of AI are related to power computing, storage, and communication speed between people and the real world. AI highlights a variety of applications that use the Internet of Things (IoT), machine learning, big data analytics, and cloud infrastructures to provide efficient smart city functions. This work explores smart city concepts, applications and how AI traverses the growth of urban areas. The proposed chapter follows a qualitative research method with content analysis. Focused on secondary data analysis, the result of the work fills the gaps in the knowledge with the latest information related to three aspects, which include: first a thematic model detailing the smart cities and IoT applications, second, details of the existing platforms for a smart city with the use of AI and IoT; and third, the usage of AI in areas like waste management, water treatment, medical service, energy management, smart houses, smart gardening, and flood monitoring. This chapter addresses the theoretical and technological implications by facilitating the advancement of the body of knowledge.