scholarly journals Special Issue on “Smart City and Smart Infrastructure”

Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (21) ◽  
pp. 7064
Author(s):  
Sung-Han Sim ◽  
Jong-Jae Lee
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Smart Infrastructure

Recent developments in sensor technologies and data-driven approaches have been recognized as the main enablers of smart cities. [...]

scholarly journals Open-Source Electronics Platforms as Enabling Technologies for Smart Cities: Recent Developments and Perspectives

Electronics ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 7 (12) ◽  
pp. 404 ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel Costa ◽  
Cristian Duran-Faundez
Keyword(s):  
Open Source ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Low Cost ◽  
Raspberry Pi ◽  
Computational Power ◽  
Different Types ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Programmable Devices ◽  
Hardware Platforms

With the increasing availability of affordable open-source embedded hardware platforms, the development of low-cost programmable devices for uncountable tasks has accelerated in recent years. In this sense, the large development community that is being created around popular platforms is also contributing to the construction of Internet of Things applications, which can ultimately support the maturation of the smart-cities era. Popular platforms such as Raspberry Pi, BeagleBoard and Arduino come as single-board open-source platforms that have enough computational power for different types of smart-city applications, while keeping affordable prices and encompassing many programming libraries and useful hardware extensions. As a result, smart-city solutions based on such platforms are becoming common and the surveying of recent research in this area can support a better understanding of this scenario, as presented in this article. Moreover, discussions about the continuous developments in these platforms can also indicate promising perspectives when using these boards as key elements to build smart cities.

scholarly journals Data-Driven Approach for Incident Management in a Smart City

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (22) ◽  
pp. 8281
Author(s):  
Luís B. Elvas ◽  
Carolina F. Marreiros ◽  
João M. Dinis ◽  
Maria C. Pereira ◽  
Ana L. Martins ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Data Mining ◽  
Smart City ◽  
City Planning ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Incident Management ◽  
Cascading Effects ◽  
Data Mining Approach ◽  
Industry Standard ◽  
Data Driven Approach

Buildings in Lisbon are often the victim of several types of events (such as accidents, fires, collapses, etc.). This study aims to apply a data-driven approach towards knowledge extraction from past incident data, nowadays available in the context of a Smart City. We apply a Cross Industry Standard Process for Data Mining (CRISP-DM) approach to perform incident management of the city of Lisbon. From this data-driven process, a descriptive and predictive analysis of an events dataset provided by the Lisbon Municipality was possible, together with other data obtained from the public domain, such as the temperature and humidity on the day of the events. The dataset provided contains events from 2011 to 2018 for the municipality of Lisbon. This data mining approach over past data identified patterns that provide useful knowledge for city incident managers. Additionally, the forecasts can be used for better city planning, and data correlations of variables can provide information about the most important variables towards those incidents. This approach is fundamental in the context of smart cities, where sensors and data can be used to improve citizens’ quality of life. Smart Cities allow the collecting of data from different systems, and for the case of disruptive events, these data allow us to understand them and their cascading effects better.

scholarly journals DIGITAL TWIN FOR INDOOR DISASTER IN SMART CITY: A SYSTEMATIC REVIEW

2022 ◽  
Vol XLVI-4/W3-2021 ◽  
pp. 315-322
Author(s):  
S. Shaharuddin ◽  
K. N. Abdul Maulud ◽  
S. A. F. Syed Abdul Rahman ◽  
A. I. Che Ani
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Disaster Management ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Environmental Disaster ◽  
Digital Twin ◽  
Digital Twins ◽  
Building Information ◽  
Recent Developments

Abstract. Technology has advanced and progressed tremendously, and the term city is being elevated to a new level where the smart city has been introduced globally. Recent developments in the concept of smart city have led to a renewed interest in Digital Twin. Using precise Building Information Modelling (BIM) consolidated with big data and sensors, several attempts have been made to establish digital twin smart cities. In recent years, several researchers have sought to determine the capability of smart city and digital twin for various taxonomies such as development and urban planning purposes, built environment, manufacturing, environmental, disaster management, and healthcare. Despite being beneficial in many disciplines, especially in manufacturing, built environment, and urban planning, these existing studies have shown a lack of aspect in terms of emergency or disaster-related as opposed to the elements mentioned above. This is because the researcher has not treated emergencies or disasters in much detail. Therefore, an extensive review on smart city, digital twin, BIM and disaster management and technology that revolves around these terms were summarised. In general, 39 articles from prominent multidisciplinary databases were retrieved over the last two decades based on the suggested PRISMA workflow. These final articles were analysed and categorised into four themes based on the research content, gist, and keywords. Based on the review of 39 articles related to smart city, digital twin and BIM, a workflow for the smart city digital twin and the conceptual framework for indoor disaster management was proposed accordingly. The establishment of smart city digital twins solely for an indoor emergency can be beneficial to urbanites, and it could provide numerous benefits for enhanced situation assessment, decision making, coordination, and resource allocation.

Worlding and provincialising smart cities: From individual case studies to a global comparative research agenda

Urban Studies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (3) ◽  
pp. 655-673
Author(s):  
Byron Miller ◽  
Kevin Ward ◽  
Ryan Burns ◽  
Victoria Fast ◽  
Anthony Levenda
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Comparative Research ◽  
Research Agenda ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Individual Case ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Complex Power ◽  
Global North ◽  
America South

The diversity of smart city case studies presented in this special issue demonstrates the need for provincialised understandings of smart cities that account for cities’ worlding strategies. Case studies drawn from North America, South America, Europe, the Middle East and Asia show that ‘the smart city’ takes very diverse forms, serves very diverse objectives, and is embedded in complex power geometries that vary from city to city. Case studies are a critical strategy for understanding phenomena in context, yet they present their own epistemological and ontological limitations. We argue for a more-than-Global-North smart city research agenda focused on the comparative analysis of smart cities, an agenda that foregrounds the conjunctural geographies of relationships and processes shaping these cities.

scholarly journals Sustainable Smart Cities and Smart Villages Research: Rethinking Security, Safety, Well-being, and Happiness

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 215 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Visvizi ◽  
Miltiadis D. Lytras
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Scientific Debate ◽  
Recent Developments ◽  
Urban And Rural Areas ◽  
And Migration

This Special Issue of Sustainability was devoted to the topic of “Sustainable Smart Cities and Smart Villages Research: Rethinking Security, Safety, Well-being, and Happiness”. It attracted significant attention of scholars, practitioners, and policy-makers from all over the world. Locating themselves at the expanding cross-section of the information systems and policy making research, all papers included in this Special Issue contribute to the debate on the exploitation of advanced information and communication technologies (ICT) for smart applications and computing for smart cities and rural areas research. By promoting a thorough scientific debate on multi-faceted challenges that our villages, cities, urban and rural areas are exposed to today, this Special Issue offers a very useful overview of the most recent developments in the multifaceted and, frequently overlapping, fields of smart cities and smart villages research. A variety of topics including well-being, happiness, security, Open Democracy, Open Government, Smart Education, Smart Innovation, and Migration have been addressed in this Special Issue. In this way they define the direction for future research in both domains.

scholarly journals Editorial: Smart cities of the future: Creating tomorrow’s education toward effective skills and career development today

2014 ◽  
pp. 344-355
Keyword(s):  
Curriculum Reform ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Human Performance ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Technology Enhanced Learning ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
The Future ◽  
Assessment Skills ◽  
Performance Development

This special issue is dedicated to recent opportunities, perceptions, solutions and expectations that the emergent number of cities, exploiting the Smart City concept, face in designing and providing education that is striving to shape the new generation of the Smart Citizens. Smart Cities are improving the interconnection between citizens and with governments paying regard to shaping a new environment for the education of today’s students for life in tomorrow’s multifaceted technology-driven world. Various definitions that evolved from Digital City through Wireless City to Smart City and recently Smart City of the Future make us aware that technology and infrastructures are the leading aspect of the Smart City concept. The Smart City concept embraces not only various definitions but also diverse directions representing a collection that conveys many opportunities for educational arrangements. Viewed in this way, it builds the focus of this special issue illustrating the utilization of technologies, and methodology design experiences toward a Smart City setting by considering a wide-range of education and human performance development aspects, including new opportunities for learning and instruction, technology-enhanced learning, curriculum reform, assessment, skills development, and competence and knowledge management in a highly interconnected networked environment.

scholarly journals Roadmaps to utopia: Tales of the smart city

Urban Studies ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 55 (15) ◽  
pp. 3385-3403 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alan-Miguel Valdez ◽  
Matthew Cook ◽  
Stephen Potter
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Power Relationships ◽  
City Branding ◽  
Development Discourses ◽  
Growing Network ◽  
Milton Keynes

Notions of the smart city are pervasive in urban development discourses. Various frameworks for the development of smart cities, often conceptualised as roadmaps, make a number of implicit claims about how smart city projects proceed but the legitimacy of those claims is unclear. This paper begins to address this gap in knowledge. We explore the development of a smart transport application, MotionMap, in the context of a £16M smart city programme taking place in Milton Keynes, UK. We examine how the idealised smart city narrative was locally inflected, and discuss the differences between the narrative and the processes and outcomes observed in Milton Keynes. The research shows that the vision of data-driven efficiency outlined in the roadmaps is not universally compelling, and that different approaches to the sensing and optimisation of urban flows have potential for empowering or disempowering different actors. Roadmaps tend to emphasise the importance of delivering quick practical results. However, the benefits observed in Milton Keynes did not come from quick technical fixes but from a smart city narrative that reinforced existing city branding, mobilising a growing network of actors towards the development of a smart region. Further research is needed to investigate this and other smart city developments, the significance of different smart city narratives, and how power relationships are reinforced and constructed through them.

scholarly journals EDITORIAL: Information technologies for smart city development (CIB World Building Congress 2019 special issue)

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 ◽  
pp. 697-699
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Information Technologies ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
City Development ◽  
Close Collaboration ◽  
Smart Transportation ◽  
Conference Papers ◽  
Design Construction

On 17-21 June 2019, the Conseil International du Bâtiment (CIB) World Building Congress 2019 (WBC 2019) on Constructing Smart Cities took place in The Hong Kong Polytechnic University with the host being the Department of Building and Real Estate. This triennial international congress facilitated the in-depth exchange of research ideas on the aspects of smart construction using information technologies, including “smart transportation and mobility”, and “smart planning, design, construction”. Besides, the CIB Working Commission Group WC78 emphasised the importance of using the up-to-date information technologies for smart city development. The fruitful discussions fostered the close collaboration between academia and practitioners. Built upon the research works presented in the CIB WBC 2019, outstanding conference papers were selected and invited for enriching the contents which were accepted for publication after rigorous peer review in this special issue of “Journal of Information Technology in Construction” which aims to promote the research interest of the information technologies in smart city development. Highlights of each paper is provided below for readers’ reference.

scholarly journals Three Tales about Limits to Smart Cities Solutions

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Soora Rasouli ◽  
Harry Timmermans ◽  
Dujuan Yang
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Special Issue

This editorial is the introduction to a special issue on smart cities. The concept of a smart city is not well-defined, yet expectations among urban planners and decision-makers are high. This special issue contains three papers that discuss three different manifestations of smart cities and the success—or lack of it—of the solutions discussed. The papers highlight some limitations of the concept of smart cities, but at the same time also pinpoint some potentially beneficial solutions.

scholarly journals Tokenized Ecosystem of Personal Data — Exemplified on the Context of the Smart City

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 110-133 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Thomas Frecè ◽  
Thomas Selzam
Keyword(s):  
Data Protection ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Personal Data ◽  
Privacy Preserving ◽  
Data Sources ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Access To Data

Data driven businesses, services, and even smart cities of tomorrow depend on access to data not only from machines, but also personal data of consumers, clients, citizens. Sustain-able utilization of such data must base on legal compliancy, ethical soundness, and consent. Data subjects nowadays largely lack empowerment over utilization and monetization of their personal data. To change this, we propose a tokenized ecosystem of personal data (TokPD), combining anonymization, referencing, encryption, decentralization, and functional layering to establish a privacy preserving solution for processing of personal data. This tokenized ecosys-tem is a more generalized variant of the smart city ecosystem described in the preceding publi-cation "Smart Cities of Self-Determined Data Subjects" (Frecè & Selzam 2017) with focus to-wards further options of decentralization. We use the example of a smart city to demonstrate, how TokPD ensures the data subjects’ privacy, grants the smart city access to a high number of new data sources, and simultaneously handles the user-consent to ensure compliance with mod-ern data protection regulation.

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