Framework for Smart Services as a premise for collaboration in the era of manufacturing services

Cities are becoming digital and are aiming to be sustainable. How they are combining the two is not always apparent from the outside. What we need is a look from inside. In recent years, cities have increasingly called themselves Smart City. This can mean different things, but generally includes a look towards new digital technologies and claim that a Smart City has various advantages for its citizens, roughly in line with the demands of sustainable development. A city can be seen as smart in a narrow sense, technology wise, sustainable or smart and sustainable. Current city rankings, which often evaluate and classify cities in terms of the target dimensions “smart” and “sustainable”, certify that some cities are both. In its most established academic definitions, the Smart City also serves both to improve the quality of life of its citizens and to promote sustainable development. Some cities have obviously managed to combine the two. The question that arises is as follows: What are the underlying processes towards a sustainable Smart City and are cities really using smart tools to make themselves sustainable in the sense of the 2015 United Nations Sustainability Goal 11? This question is to be answered by a method that has not yet been applied in research on cities and smart cities: the innovation biography. Based on evolutionary economics, the innovation biography approaches the process towards a Smart City as an innovation process. It will highlight which actors are involved, how knowledge is shared among them, what form citizen participation processes take and whether the use of digital and smart services within a Smart City leads to a more sustainable city. Such a process-oriented method should show, among other things, to what extent and when sustainability-relevant motives play a role and which actors and citizens are involved in the process at all.

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Shop-Floor Service Connector - a message-oriented Middleware Focused on the Usability and Infrastructure Requirements of SMEs Developing Smart Services

202020 3rd IEEE International Conference on Knowledge Innovation and Invention (ICKII) ◽

10.1109/ickii50300.2020.9318831 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Matthias Milan Strljic ◽

Chris Vollmann ◽

Oliver Riedel

Keyword(s):

Shop Floor ◽

Smart Services ◽

Message Oriented Middleware

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Smart cities in the new service economy: building platforms for smart services

AI & Society ◽

10.1007/s00146-013-0464-0 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 29 (3) ◽

pp. 323-334 ◽

Cited By ~ 113

Author(s):

Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko ◽

Pekka Valkama ◽

Stephen J. Bailey

Keyword(s):

Smart Cities ◽

Service Economy ◽

Smart Services

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Towards an Autonomous Application of Smart Services in Industry 4.0

10.1109/etfa45728.2021.9613369 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Magnus Redeker ◽

Christian Klarhorst ◽

Denis Gollner ◽

Dennis Quirin ◽

Peter WiBbrock ◽

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Keyword(s):

Industry 4.0 ◽

Smart Services

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Smart Libraries

Infrastructures ◽

10.3390/infrastructures3040043 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 3 (4) ◽

pp. 43 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Joachim Schöpfel

Keyword(s):

Smart City ◽

Learning Center ◽

Smart Services ◽

Four Dimensions ◽

Integration Of Technology ◽

Unique Model ◽

New Perspective ◽

Smart Governance ◽

Role Of Information

Can the smart city provide a new perspective for public and academic libraries? How does the smart city impact the libraries as cultural and scientific assets? And how can libraries contribute to the development of the smart city? An overview of recent library models, like the learning center or the green library, reveals affinities with the concept of the smart city, especially regarding the central role of information and the integration of technology, people, and institutions. From this observation, the paper develops the outline of a new concept of the smart library, which can be described in four dimensions, i.e., smart services, smart people, smart place, and smart governance. However, the smart library concept does not constitute a unique model or project, but a process, a way of how to get things done, that is less linear, less structured, and more creative and innovative. Also, smartness may not be a solution for all library problems.

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Smart Grid Testing Management Platform (SGTMP)

Applied Sciences ◽

10.3390/app8112278 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 8 (11) ◽

pp. 2278 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Martin Schvarcbacher ◽

Katarína Hrabovská ◽

Bruno Rossi ◽

Tomáš Pitner

Keyword(s):

Smart Grid ◽

System Architecture ◽

Energy Flow ◽

Stress Testing ◽

Modern Society ◽

Hardware In The Loop ◽

Web Based ◽

Smart Services ◽

Management Platform ◽

Testing Management

The Smart Grid (SG) is nowadays an essential part of modern society, providing two-way energy flow and smart services between providers and customers. The main drawback is the SG complexity, with an SG composed of multiple layers, with devices and components that have to communicate, integrate, and cooperate as a unified system. Such complexity brings challenges for ensuring proper reliability, resilience, availability, integration, and security of the overall infrastructure. In this paper, we introduce a new smart grid testing management platform (herein called SGTMP) for executing real-time hardware-in-the-loop SG tests and experiments that can simplify the testing process in the context of interconnected SG devices. We discuss the context of usage, the system architecture, the interactive web-based interface, the provided API, and the integration with co-simulations frameworks to provide virtualized environments for testing. Furthermore, we present one main scenario about the stress-testing of SG devices that can showcase the applicability of the platform.

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