An IoT-Based Urban Infrastructure System for Smart Cities

2018 ◽  
pp. 151-173
Author(s):  
Edna Iliana Tamariz-Flores ◽  
Kevin Abid García-Juárez ◽  
Richard Torrealba-Meléndez ◽  
Jesús Manuel Muñoz-Pacheco ◽  
Miguel Ángel León-Chávez
Keyword(s):  
Smart Cities ◽  
Urban Infrastructure ◽  
Infrastructure System

Systematization of the smart city civil engineering infrastructure

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 765-779
Author(s):  
E.V. Popov ◽  
K.A. Semyachkov ◽  
K.V. Zhunusova
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Urban Infrastructure ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Economic Innovation ◽  
Civil Engineering Infrastructure ◽  
Functional Transformations

Subject. This article explores the basic elements of the engineering infrastructure of smart cities. Objectives. The article aims to systematize theoretical descriptions of the engineering infrastructure of a smart city. Methods. For the study, we used a logical analysis and systematization. Results. The article highlights the main areas of infrastructure development of smart cities. Conclusions. Improving process management mechanisms, optimizing urban infrastructure, increasing the use of digital technologies, and developing socio-economic innovation improve the quality of the urban environment in a digitalized environment. And improving the efficiency of urban planning and security, studying its properties and characteristics, and forming an effective urban information system lead to its functional transformations.

scholarly journals Campus City Project: Challenge Living Lab for Smart Cities

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (23) ◽  
pp. 11085
Author(s):  
José I. Huertas ◽  
Jürgen Mahlknecht ◽  
Jorge de J. Lozoya-Santos ◽  
Sergio Uribe ◽  
Enrique A. López-Guajardo ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Urban Infrastructure ◽  
Innovation Ecosystem ◽  
Smart Campus ◽  
Living Lab ◽  
Development Of Competencies ◽  
Creative Talent ◽  
Energy Challenge ◽  
Innovation And Entrepreneurship

This work presents the Campus City initiative followed by the Challenge Living Lab platform to promote research, innovation, and entrepreneurship with the intention to create urban infrastructure and creative talent (human resources) that solves different community, industrial and government Pain Points within a Smart City ecosystem. The main contribution of this work is to present a working model and the open innovation ecosystem used in Tecnologico de Monterrey that could be used as both, a learning mechanism as well as a base model for scaling it up into a Smart Campus and Smart City. Moreover, this work presents the Smart Energy challenge as an example of a pedagogic opportunity for the development of competencies. This included the pedagogic design of the challenge, the methodology followed by the students and the results. Finally, a discussion on the findings and learnings of the model and challenge implementation. Results showed that Campus City initiative and the Challenge Living Lab allows the identification of highly relevant and meaningful challenges while providing a pedagogic framework in which students are highly motivated, engaged, and prepared to tackle different problems that involve government, community, industry, and academia.

scholarly journals IMPROVING THE ENERGY EFFICIENCY OF SMART CITIES DURING THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

2021 ◽  
Vol 229 (3) ◽  
pp. 354-364
Author(s):  
MAKSIM D. PUSHKAREV ◽  
◽  
DMITRY A. PROKOFIEV ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Efficiency ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Urban Infrastructure ◽  
High Tech ◽  
The World ◽  
The Impact

Smart city technologies make the functioning of urban infrastructure more efficient, and the lives of citizens more comfortable and safe. During the COVID-19 pandemic, they were very popular, and this could not but affect the energy efficiency of high-tech megacities around the world. This article examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on smart cities, and also offers a solution to the problem of energy efficiency of smart cities.

scholarly journals Henry George and Mohring–Harwitz Theorems: Lessons for Financing Smart Cities in Developing Countries*

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-30 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alok Kumar Mishra
Keyword(s):  
Economic Growth ◽  
Developing Countries ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Urban Economics ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Urban Infrastructure ◽  
Henry George ◽  
Transport Economics ◽  
Financing Infrastructure ◽  
Congestion Externalities

Developing countries are embarking on ‘smart city’ programmes to rejuvenate their cities as engines of economic growth, applying smart solutions and managerial innovations. However, they ignore the powerful externalities of cities and are far from adopting ‘smart’ ways of financing urban infrastructure and services based on known theories and international practices. This article combines the Henry George Theorem (HGT) from Urban Economics and Mohring–Harwitz Theorem (MHT) from Transport Economics to suggest a robust strategy of financing infrastructure in cities. While the HGT emphasizes the taxation of urban land value, the MHT advocates the pricing of congestion externalities. The article suggests that if ‘beneficiaries pay’ and ‘congesters pay’ principles are combined, cities in developing countries like India can generate adequate revenues to service long-tenor debt incurred for core infrastructure facilities. It presents a toolbox of instruments to finance urban infrastructure.

scholarly journals iABACUS: A Wi-Fi-Based Automatic Bus Passenger Counting System

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 1446 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele Nitti ◽  
Francesca Pinna ◽  
Lucia Pintor ◽  
Virginia Pilloni ◽  
Benedetto Barabino
Keyword(s):  
Public Transportation ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Urban Infrastructure ◽  
Static Case ◽  
Test Results ◽  
New Paradigm ◽  
Counting System ◽  
Transportation Services ◽  
Internet Connections ◽  
The Internet Of Things

Since the early stages of the Internet-of-Things (IoT), one of the application scenarios that have been affected the most by this new paradigm is mobility. Smart Cities have greatly benefited from the awareness of some people’s habits to develop efficient mobility services. In particular, knowing how people use public transportation services and move throughout urban infrastructure is crucial in several areas, among which the most prominent are tourism and transportation. Indeed, especially for Public Transportation Companies (PTCs), long- and short-term planning of the transit network requires having a thorough knowledge of the flows of passengers in and out vehicles. Thanks to the ubiquitous presence of Internet connections, this knowledge can be easily enabled by sensors deployed on board of public transport vehicles. In this paper, a Wi-Fi-based Automatic Bus pAssenger CoUnting System, named iABACUS, is presented. The objective of iABACUS is to observe and analyze urban mobility by tracking passengers throughout their journey on public transportation vehicles, without the need for them to take any action. Test results proves that iABACUS efficiently detects the number of devices with an active Wi-Fi interface, with an accuracy of 100% in the static case and almost 94% in the dynamic case. In the latter case, there is a random error that only appears when two bus stops are very close to each other.

A Framework to Identify the Sustainable and Resilient Zone of Urban Infrastructure System Planning and Design

ICSI 2014 ◽  
2014 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arka Pandit ◽  
Reginald DesRoches ◽  
Glenn J. Rix ◽  
John C. Crittenden
Keyword(s):  
Urban Infrastructure ◽  
System Planning ◽  
Planning And Design ◽  
Infrastructure System

scholarly journals SMART CITIES AND SUSTAINABLE URBANISM: A STUDY FROM POLICY AND DESIGN PERSPECTIVE

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (6) ◽  
pp. 36 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mihir Bholey
Keyword(s):  
Smart Cities ◽  
Urban Infrastructure ◽  
Appropriate Technology ◽  
Design And Technology ◽  
Multiple Perspectives ◽  
Secondary Sources ◽  
Sustainable Urbanism ◽  
Technology Intervention ◽  
Indian Cities ◽  
Recent Policy

This paper examines India’s foray into building hundred smart cities from multiple perspectives viz. urban challenges, urban policies, sustainable urbanism, emerging global models and design and technology intervention. It also evaluates the relative challenges of building new smart cities like Masdar or Songdo and applying smart interventions to retrofit the aging and ailing urban infrastructure of the existing Indian cities. Based on the data from the secondary sources it examines the priority areas and the possibilities of making smart intervention through use of appropriate technology and design. While doing so, it brings into discussion India’s urban challenges and its policy of urban development over the years besides the recurring development deficit. Today, Indian cities are faced with huge infrastructure deficit which reflects in their performance and service delivery. The imperative to ensure urban rejuvenation now reflects in the recent policy of creating hundred smart cities in India. This paper also discusses howtechnology and design interventions at appropriate levels canaugment urban infrastructure and make a sustainable urban eco-system called smart city.

scholarly journals Innovative Civic Engagement and Digital Urban Infrastructure: Lessons from 100 Smart Cities Mission in India

2017 ◽  
Vol 180 ◽  
pp. 1423-1432 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarbeswar Praharaj ◽  
Jung Hoon Han ◽  
Scott Hawken
Keyword(s):  
Civic Engagement ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Urban Infrastructure

scholarly journals A survey of methods supporting cyber situational awareness in the context of smart cities

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nataliia Neshenko ◽  
Christelle Nader ◽  
Elias Bou-Harb ◽  
Borko Furht
Keyword(s):  
Situational Awareness ◽  
Technological Development ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Urban Infrastructure ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Data Driven ◽  
Research Directions ◽  
Cyber Threats ◽  
Support Methods

Abstract A modern urban infrastructure no longer operates in isolation, but instead, leverages the latest technologies to collect, process, and distribute aggregated knowledge in order to improve the quality of the provided services and promote the efficiency of resource consumption. This technological development, however, manifests in the form of new vulnerabilities and a plethora of attack vectors. In the same context, the ambiguity of ever-evolving cyber threats and their debilitating consequences introduce new barriers for decision-makers. Therefore, cyber situational awareness of smart cities emerges as a mission-critical task that requires support methods for effective and timely decision-making. In this article, we investigate the threat landscape of smart cities, survey and reveal the progress in data-driven methods for situational awareness and evaluate their effectiveness when addressing various cyber threats. We draw several potential research directions that aim at advancing cyber situational awareness in the context of smart cities.

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