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2018 | OriginalPaper | Chapter
6. The Cloud: A Critical Smart City Asset
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Abstract
This chapter discusses the origins and structure of “the Cloud” as well as its role in the emerging “smart city” phenomenon. The “Cloud” existed from the moment the Internet was created. The pervasive, global presence of data and computing resources “somewhere out there” in an Internet-based datacenter is the foundation of cloud computing. The worldwide expansion of wireless Internet access now provides immediate storage, retrieval, and processing of information from arbitrary sources. As cities implement “smart” technologies and processes, access to “the Cloud” will enable the creation of distributed, personal, and autonomous services with ramifications far beyond today’s Internet.