scholarly journals Smart Brain Interaction Systems for Office Access and Control in Smart City Context

10.5772/65902 ◽  
2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ghada Al-Hudhud
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
And Control

scholarly journals A Unified Smart City Model (USCM) for Smart City Conceptualization and Benchmarking

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 77-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonidas Anthopoulos ◽  
Marijn Janssen ◽  
Vishanth Weerakkody
Keyword(s):  
Health Education ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Policy Impact ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Management Architecture ◽  
The World ◽  
City Model ◽  
And Control ◽  
Urban Characteristics

Smart cities have attracted an extensive and emerging interest from both science and industry with an increasing number of international examples emerging from all over the world. However, despite the significant role that smart cities can play to deal with recent urban challenges, the concept has been being criticized for not being able to realize its potential and for being a vendor hype. This paper reviews different conceptualization, benchmarks and evaluations of the smart city concept. Eight different classes of smart city conceptualization models have been discovered, which structure the unified conceptualization model and concern smart city facilities (i.e., energy, water, IoT etc.), services (i.e., health, education etc.), governance, planning and management, architecture, data and people. Benchmarking though is still ambiguous and different perspectives are followed by the researchers that measure -and recently monitor- various factors, which somehow exceed typical technological or urban characteristics. This can be attributed to the broadness of the smart city concept. This paper sheds light to parameters that can be measured and controlled in an attempt to improve smart city potential and leaves space for corresponding future research. More specifically, smart city progress, local capacity, vulnerabilities for resilience and policy impact are only some of the variants that scholars pay attention to measure and control.

scholarly journals Toronto’s Not-So-“Smart” City: Dismantling the Tech Utopia & Building Stronger Communities

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sahar Raza
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Action Research ◽  
Critical Theory ◽  
Public Good ◽  
Research Methods ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
State Elite ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
And Control

This thesis critically analyzes the dominant discourse, actors, and technologies associated with the Sidewalk Toronto smart city project to uncover and resist the potential dangers of the unregulated smart city. Drawing from gray and scholarly literature alongside four semistructured interviews and three action research methods, this research shows that smart cities and technologies are the latest iteration of corporate power, exploitation, and control. Imbued with neoliberal, colonial, and positivistic logics, the smart city risks further eroding democracy, privacy, and equity in favour of promoting privatization, surveillance, and an increased concentration of power and wealth among corporate and state elite. While the publicized promise of the smart city may continuously shift to reflect and co-opt oppositional narratives, its logics remain static, and its beneficiaries remain few. Applying a social justice-oriented lens which connects critical theory, postmodernism, poststructuralism, intersectional feminism, and anticolonial methodologies is crucial in reconceptualizing “smartness” and prioritizing public good.

scholarly journals Accounting and smart cities: New evidence for governmentality and politics

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (3) ◽  
pp. 158-170
Author(s):  
Loai Ali Alsaid ◽  
Jean Claude Mutiganda
Keyword(s):  
Enterprise Resource Planning ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Resource Planning ◽  
Distribution Networks ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Electricity Pricing ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Erp System ◽  
And Control

The concept of a smart city has attracted the attention of many scholars and policymakers in many countries worldwide. The role of accounting as a tool of governance in smart city politics, however, has so far been largely overlooked, especially in less developed countries (LDCs). This paper sets off to fill this research gap and hitherto unexplored linkages between accounting and smart cities. Drawing on the concept of governmentality, the authors conducted a case study based on document analysis, meetings observation, and 42 semi-structured interviews at a branch of a hybrid electricity company owned by New Cairo City in Egypt, during 2018. Findings show that the case company has implemented smart distribution networks of electricity in which new management accounting technology (enterprise resource planning (ERP) system) is used to trace costs, revenues, client complaints and feedback in a timely manner. The new network (of infrastructure and technologies) has represented timely accounting information as a major political power to influence accurate governance decision-making, such as smart electricity pricing and control, and to challenge governance decisions that are not sound. This paper is one of the first studies to explore the socio-political dynamics of accounting in smart city governance in the context of LDCs.

scholarly journals The spectrum of control: A social theory of the smart city

First Monday ◽  
2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jathan Sadowski ◽  
Frank Pasquale
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Social Theory ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Critical Infrastructure ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Control Mechanisms ◽  
Physical Objects ◽  
Smart Technologies ◽  
And Control ◽  
The Internet Of Things

There is a certain allure to the idea that cities allow a person to both feel at home and like a stranger in the same place. That one can know the streets and shops, avenues and alleys, while also going days without being recognized. But as elites fill cities with “smart” technologies — turning them into platforms for the “Internet of Things” (IoT): sensors and computation embedded within physical objects that then connect, communicate, and/or transmit information with or between each other through the Internet — there is little escape from a seamless web of surveillance and power. This paper will outline a social theory of the “smart city” by developing our Deleuzian concept of the “spectrum of control.” We present two illustrative examples: biometric surveillance as a form of monitoring, and automated policing as a particularly brutal and exacting form of manipulation. We conclude by offering normative guidelines for governance of the pervasive surveillance and control mechanisms that constitute an emerging critical infrastructure of the “smart city.”

scholarly journals The «smart city» concept: fixing key concepts in the context of providing the development of a big municipality

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (8) ◽  
pp. 24-34
Author(s):  
A. O. Andriіenko
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
City Management ◽  
City Formation ◽  
Strategic Direction ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
Smart Community ◽  
The One ◽  
And Control

The article reveals the content and explores the conceptual-categorical apparatus of the problem of the «smart city» formation on the territory of a large municipal entity. The classification of big municipalities, aimed at their services (communal, educational, medical, public) ‘smartization’, by type, is given. It is determined that smart cities are considered by the world scientific community from two positions: on the one hand, as objects of the spontaneous socio-economic movement, which cannot always be directed in a given strategic direction; on the other hand, as a managerial category – cities that effectively use all available information for better understanding and control of their functions and optimal use of resources available, including the potential of residents. A system of factors, the development of which is aimed at forming the foundations of a smart city, is given. The basis for developing such a system is the concept of sustainable development. Accordingly, the complex of the following factors influencing the ‘smartization’ of urban development is presented: technological (determines the level of development and public availability of digital technologies in urban services); human (creates a space for creativity, learning, obtaining and generating knowledge); economic (outlines the limits of economic capacity of the city, the coordination of economic tasks with social priorities and environmental needs); institutional (forms the basis for proper management of the city’s integrated development, promotes the development of the smart community and the attraction of intellectual capital). The criteria for meeting the goals of smart city management that outline the content and determine the directions of smart administration on the basis of sustainability are given; the factors of the formation of such a city (institutional, social, economic, technological) are presented and structured; accordingly, the concept of «smart city» is defined through the prism of institutional, social, economic, technological and integrated managerial approaches.

scholarly journals Effective Aquatic Waste Removal through Lake Cleaning Robot for Smart city Environment

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 2831-2835
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Water Sources ◽  
Computational Time ◽  
Raspberry Pi ◽  
Main Concern ◽  
City Environment ◽  
Cleaning Robot ◽  
Waste Removal ◽  
And Control

Water sources are contaminated by garbage, weeds and plastic wastes. Effective waste removal in the water sources such as lakes, ponds and rivers is essential for waste management and control. In Indian setting, Aquatic waste management and control is of main concern for implementing smart city and achieving clean India mission. Therefore the proposed work, aims at developing intelligent solution towards automating the waste removal in lakes. Lake cleaning robot system for removing the surface wastes is experimented in this work. This lake cleaning system uses Raspberry Pi along with proximity sensors for detection and DC motors for movement. Raspberry pi controls the movement of the robot along with gripper, motors, ultrasonic sensor and IR sensor. The working prototype model of the proposed system exhibits good accuracy with reduced computational time. Henceforth, the developed lake cleaning robot could be used towards reducing water pollution through efficient waste removal for implementing smart city environment.

scholarly journals Das Gehirn der Smart City

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1/2) ◽  
pp. 51-71
Author(s):  
Christian Eichenmüller ◽  
Max Münßinger ◽  
Georg Glasze
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Command And Control ◽  
Control Center ◽  
Sind Eine ◽  
And Control

Ausgangspunkt des Beitrages ist die Beobachtung, dass sogenannte command and control center im Zuge von Smart-City-Vorhaben zu wichtigen Bausteinen der Stadtentwicklung werden – nicht nur in der von uns untersuchten „Smart City Mission“ in Indien, sondern weltweit. Die Idee der Vermessung, Lesbarmachung und Steuerung von Städten in einem zentralen Raum wird vielfach als neue und zeitgemäße Antwort auf die Herausforderungen der Städte im „digitalen Zeitalter“ präsentiert – nicht zuletzt von globalen Beratungsfirmen und lokalen Eliten. Wir zeigen, dass diese Ansätze auf Logiken aufbauen, die bereits in der Mitte des 20. Jahrhunderts in der Kybernetik entworfen worden sind. Eine solche historische Einordnung ermöglicht es, die Übersetzungen und Materialisierungen dieser Logiken in spezifischen Kontexten sowie die dabei auftretenden Brüche herauszuarbeiten. Gleichzeitig trägt die Perspektive dazu bei, die von Technologieanbietern und Beratungsfirmen propagierte Alternativlosigkeit smarter Stadtentwicklungspolitik aufzubrechen und diese damit einer Kritik zugänglich zu machen.

scholarly journals A Unified Smart City Model (USCM) for Smart City Conceptualization and Benchmarking

2018 ◽  
pp. 523-540 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leonidas Anthopoulos ◽  
Marijn Janssen ◽  
Vishanth Weerakkody
Keyword(s):  
Health Education ◽  
Significant Role ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Management Architecture ◽  
The World ◽  
City Model ◽  
And Control ◽  
Urban Characteristics

Smart cities have attracted an extensive and emerging interest from both science and industry with an increasing number of international examples emerging from all over the world. However, despite the significant role that smart cities can play to deal with recent urban challenges, the concept has been being criticized for not being able to realize its potential and for being a vendor hype. This paper reviews different conceptualization, benchmarks and evaluations of the smart city concept. Eight different classes of smart city conceptualization models have been discovered, which structure the unified conceptualization model and concern smart city facilities (i.e., energy, water, IoT etc.), services (i.e., health, education etc.), governance, planning and management, architecture, data and people. Benchmarking though is still ambiguous and different perspectives are followed by the researchers that measure -and recently monitor- various factors, which somehow exceed typical technological or urban characteristics. This can be attributed to the broadness of the smart city concept. This paper sheds light to parameters that can be measured and controlled in an attempt to improve smart city potential and leaves space for corresponding future research. More specifically, smart city progress, local capacity, vulnerabilities for resilience and policy impact are only some of the variants that scholars pay attention to measure and control.

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