Integrated Environmental Engineering Framework for Sustainable Stormwater Management in Smart Cities
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Smart cities, Stormwater management, Environmental engineering framework, Digital twin, IoT sensor networks,Abstract
Smart cities — urban environments characterized by integrated digital infrastructure, real-time data flows, and AI-enabled service optimization — present a transformative context for next-generation stormwater management that transcends conventional engineering boundaries. This paper proposes and validates the Integrated Environmental Engineering Framework for Smart Stormwater Cities (IEEF-SSC), a comprehensive seven-layer architecture that unifies sensor networks, digital twin platforms, AI decision engines, nature-based infrastructure, adaptive governance, circular resource flows, and community engagement systems into a coherent operational whole. Through systematic review of 128 peer-reviewed studies, smart city implementation reports, and engineering case studies from 2018 to 2025 across 34 cities on six continents, we characterize the current state of smart city stormwater integration, identify architectural gaps in existing implementations, and demonstrate the performance gains achievable through full-stack integration compared to partial deployments.
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