Artificial Intelligence-Driven Decision Support Systems for Sustainable Energy Management in Smart Cities

Due to the ongoing urbanization trend, smart cities are critical to designing a sustainable future. Urban sustainability involves action-oriented approaches for optimizing resource usage, ecological impact reduction, and overall efficiency enhancement. Energy management is one of the main concerns in urban, residential, and building planning. Artificial Intelligence (AI) uses data analytics and machine learning to instigate business automation and deal with intelligent tasks involved in numerous industries. Thus, AI needs to be considered in the strategic plan, especially in the long-term strategy of smart city planning. Decision Support Systems (DSS) are integrated with human- machine interaction methods like the Internet of Things (IoT). Along with their growth in size and complexity, the communications of IoT smart devices, industrial equipment, sensors, and mobile applications present an increasing challenge in meeting Service Level Agreements (SLAs) in diverse cloud data centers and user requests. This challenge would be further compounded if the energy consumption of industrial IoT networks also increased tremendously. Thus, DSS models are necessary for automated decision-making in crucial IoT settings like intelligent industrial systems and smart cities. The present study examines how AI can be integrated into DSS to tackle the intricate difficulties of sustainable energy management in smart cities. The study examines the evolution of DSSs and elucidates how AI enhances their functionalities. The study explores several AI methods, such as machine learning algorithms and predictive analytics that aid in predicting, optimizing, and making real-time decisions inside urban energy systems. Furthermore, real-world instances from different smart cities highlight the practical applications, benefits, and interdisciplinary collaboration necessary to successfully implement AI-driven DSS in sustainable energy management.