Smart Healthy Living for Smart Kozhikode Metropolitan Area

Almost all religions, philosophers, existential thinkers, feminists, psychologists and writers have also explored the idea of living well and have attributed happiness to factors such as living with purpose, freedom among others. These factors being mostly intangible often neglected or overlooked as they don’t easily fit in the tool kit of urban planner. Smart city is a knowledge-based city that develops extra ordinary capabilities to be self-aware. It assimilates data from the entire functioning of the city and becomes self-aware, and it selectively communicates to the citizens with information to improve their way of life in real time. This chapter explored the present way of living, attempts to identify the aspirations and issues faced by its citizens. The capabilities of smart technologies were explored, and a framework is proposed to harness these capabilities for improving the way of life in Kozhikode Metropolitan Area (KMA). The study is centred on the following three key steps. The first step in the study is to empirically identify health related issues of KMA and available mechanisms of related institutions and determine more effective interventions by smart communities in conjunction with others based on the knowledge base of the respective domains. Health care has got a curative dimension, preventive dimension and promotive dimension. This chapter therefore is a blue print for curative, preventive and promotive aspects of total KMA health care for implementation by smart communities. The chapter analyses data from the KMA, to see what are the major health issues faced by its population under the four pillars of health. It further explores the various information required to improve the health conditions, and proses a system of sensors to gather the required information. The proposals also include a broad sketch of the algorithm to process the collected data and convert that to actionable information by the individual, smart community or other implementation agencies. The chapter concludes by consolidating all the issues analysed, and corresponding smart solutions for them under four pillars of health.