Smart Cities and Quality of Life perception in the Czech Republic

One of the today's challenges for cities with smart projects is to demonstrate benefits of deployed solutions for city effectiveness and for the Quality of Living (QoL) of their citizens. Research objective of the paper is to explore citizen individual perception to gain knowledge about smart solutions impacts on quality of living perception. Research was conducted within project Smart Region - Smart City - Smart Community. Authors in first part of this paper provide analysis of citizens' idea of Smart City strategies and solutions. In the second part, relationship between perceived level of smartness and the level of QoL in Czech cities is examined and analysed. The third part of this paper presents citizens' ranking of the top Czech smart cities and Czech regions. Citizen-centric approach and QoL in the SC is authors' constant focus on how to complement the issue with the human element, how to promote communication towards citizens and support the tools of citizen involvement and thus support democracy.