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| Title | Unleashing The Potential Of 5G For Smart Cities: A Focus On Real-Time Digital Twin Integration |
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| ID_Doc | 59634 |
| Authors | Mahomed A.S.; Saha A.K. |
| Year | 2025 |
| Published | Smart Cities, 8, 2 |
| DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/smartcities8020070 |
| Abstract | Highlights: 5G technology revolutionizes smart cities by facilitating seamless IoT connectivity, real-time digital twins, and sophisticated urban applications, tackling network problems such as network congestion and energy optimization. It improves resource management, public safety, and the efficiency of urban systems, although it encounters challenges like expensive infrastructure and restricted signal coverage. Working together with stakeholders is important to address these challenges and to develop scalable, secure, and sustainable smart city solutions. What are the main findings? 5G technology provides a seamless integration of IoT devices, live monitoring systems, and real-time digital twins, revolutionizing smart city frameworks. Key urban challenges like network overload, energy efficiency, and data security can be addressed through 5G, although infrastructure expenses and signal constraints present difficulties. What are the implications of the main findings? The integration of 5G and real-time digital twins improves urban resource management, public safety, and overall system efficiency in smart cities. To address limitations and to realize scalable, secure, and sustainable smart city solutions driven by 5G, collaboration among stakeholders is essential. The arrival of 5G technology is transforming the creation of smart cities by delivering unmatched speed, extremely low latency, and broad device connectivity. These developments allow for the effortless integration of IoT devices, live monitoring systems, and cutting-edge urban applications. This paper examines the impact of 5G in tackling significant urban challenges, including network overload, energy efficacy, and data security, while highlighting its revolutionary potential in improving smart city frameworks. An important emphasis is the fusion of 5G with real-time digital twins, which link physical and digital realms to enhance urban systems, refine resource management, and strengthen public safety. Even with its potential, the rollout of 5G encounters challenges such as expensive infrastructure, significant energy requirements, and limited signal reach. This research explores the present trends, current applications, and new challenges related to 5G in smart cities, providing insights into its constraints and approaches to address them. It summarizes the necessity of cooperation among stakeholders to realize 5G’s complete capabilities and to create scalable, secure, and sustainable solutions for smart cities. © 2025 by the authors. |
| Author Keywords | artificial intelligence; real-time systems; wireless networks |
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