Interesting Innovations Instead of sharing academic views about smart cities, I would like to share few case studies& few terminologies which can really help to understand about innovation for community infrastructures people often describe as SMART CITY. Balloons for WI-FI Reuters &Camera: Instead of Terrace towers for networking, Google suggested to have Balloons floated at significant locations which encompass networking equipment and camera system. Communities can be connected and get latest data about traffic and events happening in city. City Orbit can be defined and one layer can be spared to install low cost multi tasking balloons for smart city networking and analysis. Sensors & IOT – many interesting projects, experiments and data analysis via Internet of Things (IOT) been carried for smart cities. Various kinds of sensors available which can capture data pertaining to micro climatic which include temp, moisture, noise, air quality etc., IOT platform intelligently analyses data and suggest remedial measures which can improve local environment. Pothole project is interesting technology app, where special vehicle drives on city roads which can identify potholes, its intensity, location and material required for repair the same. Program generated to apply patches over potholes in offpeak hours Innovative Parking solutions are explored as it seems need of an hour for smart city. Many designs are explored but the best is to use streets and roads for effective way to park vehicles using technology and apps. Before world move ahead with driver less vehicles, parking solution for smart city would be a challenge. Some other interesting smart city projects may cover - · Live Traffic Management: It’s a challenge to use technology like IOT which captures live data in real time to resolve issues and best possible way. · Mixed land use town planning schemes incorporating optimum transit between home-work-school: City Planners widely adopt new age mixed planning approach to help city to evolve · New age co-working space to work from anywhere system: Talents are trusted so as allowed to work from anywhere. Tangible ways identified to measure productivity. · Solid waste recycle: new interesting domain which may bring paradigm shift in communities. · Renewable energy generations by individual units: Yes, one can contribute for better world. · Gross Happiness for communities: happily, misunderstood earlier and now happily adopted. · Green walls & Garden Islands: individuals can have their own green space. These are new interesting domains of smart cities which are evolving effectively. Citizens prefer to give priorities and start considering staying and work where LIFE is VALUED the MOST.