Tvorba etalonu vlastností Smart City

This diploma thesis deals with the complex and relatively new Smart City concept. It is a response to the challenges of the 21st century that cities' leaders will have to face sooner or later. The transformation of the city into a Smart City takes place through the use of smart technologies in order to increase standards of living and preserve sustainable urban development. However, the Smart City concept is defined differently author by author. Therefore, an universally valid definition has not been set yet. Similarly, there is a different implementation of the concept. Another issue is related to measuring the smartness of cities, for which there have not been set any universally valid metrics yet. The author assigns a total of four goals. The first is to create her own Smart City definition, which is based on a research of definitions from different sources. In addition, the author reviews existing standards, indexes, competitions and Smart City best practices and collects relevant criteria for measuring the smartness of cities. This list is completed by the author's suggested criteria and it is submitted to experts to assess the suitability of each criteria. The output of the expert analysis is the Smart City characteristics gauge. At the end of the thesis the author verifies the applicability of these criteria to one of the city districts of Prague. The main output of the thesis is a consolidated list of applications capable of fulfilling Smart City criteria, the so called Smart City characteristics gauge.