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

AI & Society ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
pp. 323-334 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ari-Veikko Anttiroiko ◽  
Pekka Valkama ◽  
Stephen J. Bailey
Keyword(s):  
Smart Cities ◽  
Service Economy ◽  
Smart Services

scholarly journals Sustainable Smart City—Opening a Black Box

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 769
Author(s):  
Mona Treude
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Citizen Participation ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Evolutionary Economics ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Innovation Process ◽  
Sustainable City ◽  
Smart Services ◽  
Underlying Processes

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.

scholarly journals Making a Building Smart with a Co-Created and Continuously Evolving Enjoyable Service Entity—Insights from a Collaborative Study

Smart Cities ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-21
Author(s):  
Maaria Nuutinen ◽  
Eija Kaasinen ◽  
Jaana Hyvärinen ◽  
Airi Mölsä ◽  
Sanni Siltanen
Keyword(s):  
Built Environment ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Collaborative Study ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Smart Services ◽  
Smart Building ◽  
Quality Of Urban Life

Buildings shape cities as those cities grow from and nurture people living and working within the built environment. Thus, the conceptualization of smart building should be brought closer to the smart city initiatives that particularly target ensuring and enhancing the sustainability and quality of urban life. In this paper, we propose that a smart building should be interlinked with a smart city surrounding it; it should provide good experiences to its various occupants and it should be in an ongoing state of evolving as an ecosystem, wherein different stakeholders can join to co-produce, co-provide and co-consume services. Smart buildings require a versatile set of smart services based on digital solutions, solutions in the built environment and human activities. We conducted a multiphase collaborative study on new service opportunities guided by a Design Thinking approach. The approach brought people, technology, and business perspectives together and resulted in key service opportunities that have the potential to make the buildings smart and provide enjoyable experience to the occupants who support their living and working activities in smart cities. This paper provides the resulting practical implications as well as proposes future avenues for research.

scholarly journals Digital Transformation using Iot in Smart Environment Applications

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (7) ◽  
pp. 47-50
Keyword(s):  
Control System ◽  
Traffic Control ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Smart Services ◽  
Research Areas ◽  
Searching Strategy ◽  
Review Protocol ◽  
Traffic Control System ◽  
Research Questions

With increasing usage of technologies and smart solutions smart cities are developed and enabled with many smart services. This paper has conducted a systematic literature review to find out IOT applications and its role in Traffic Control System. The review protocol is formulated to define some of the research questions, searching strategy, selection criteria of papers and how data is extracted. This paper contributed towards one main issue: The various research areas of Internet of Things and Role of IOT in the Traffic Control Services? All the papers were categorized by the application services of IOT and Traffic Control services they discussed. All the recent work were categorised under the application in various area like traffic and transport; Agriculture; Security; Healthcare; energy management; city infrastructure; and modes of transport. This paper reviews the various methods of traffic control system in different perspective of different IOT application areas.

scholarly journals Smart Cities Development During and Post COVID-19 Pandemic – A Predictive Analysis

2021 ◽  
pp. 189-202
Author(s):  
Dipak S. Gade ◽  
P. S. Aithal
Keyword(s):  
Smart Cities ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Subject Area ◽  
Telemedicine Service ◽  
Smart Services ◽  
Healthcare Facilities ◽  
Research Journal ◽  
Smart Healthcare ◽  
Building Activities ◽  
The Impact

Purpose: The Smart Cities due to their important role in infrastructure building activities and offering smart services to their residents in living an enjoyable life are always in the limelight and discussions. The current COVID-19 pandemic has however changed the situation, and has forced us to rethink the way we operate, carry out day to day activities and services. COVID-19 pandemic has changed the normal routine life to a significant extent, damaged the economies of many countries, shifted our business priorities, and so on. In such situations, how can Smart Cities remain unaffected due to COVID-19? This paper has analysed and discussed in detail the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Smart Cities operations and development and also, how this impact can be measured. It has described in detail how Smart Cities has changed their priorities and how they are more focusing on building Smart Healthcare facilities, Smart Isolation Wards, Smart Medicare facilities, services related to Telemedicine, Virtual Doctor, dedicated COVID-19 Command and Control Centres and so on. The paper has also highlighted the post COVID-19 Pandemic era for Smart Cities development and operations. Finally, the paper has concluded that Smart Cities development during and post COVID-19 Pandemic has witnessed a short obstacle in its growth journey, Smart Cities are definitely going to win the war against COVID-19 and will become Smarter in the future to tackle such pandemics. Design/Methodology/Approach: This research paper made use of available secondary data in research journal papers, online books, white papers, and dedicated websites on the research subject area to analyze the impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on Smart Cities Development and Operations. Findings/Result: Due to COVID-19 Pandemic, it is observed that many sectors growth slow down due to budget cut and financial constraints, however, certain sectors such as Medical Infrastructure, Insurance, and eCommerce have seen booms, this has made Smart Cities to have a strong focus on certain Smart Services related to Medical facilities, IT infrastructure to facilitate contactless transactions, Telemedicine Service, Smart Isolation Wards, etc. whereas services with respect to entertainment parks, tourism, etc. slowed down due to less priority and budget constraints. Originality/Value: Based on the available secondary data, this research has identified the impact of COVID-19 on ongoing Smart Cities development and also how its priorities and focus got shifted to build up certain services and infrastructure. The paper has also highlighted post COVID-19, how Smart Cities development, operations, and maintenance activities will be affected. Paper Type: Secondary data-based Research

Smart Cities and Accessible Tourism

2021 ◽  
pp. 96-114
Author(s):  
Ana Dias ◽  
Gonçalo Santinha ◽  
Mário Rodrigues ◽  
Alexandra Queirós ◽  
Carlos Rodrigues ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Systematic Review ◽  
Systematic Reviews ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Literature Search ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Maturity Level ◽  
Sustainable Mobility ◽  
Smart Services ◽  
Territorial Marketing ◽  
Meta Analyses

Promoting accessibility in tourism can impact on other areas, including sustainable mobility, social inclusion, and territorial marketing, since it implies taking the needs of all people into account to access tourism products and services, including those with permanent or temporary disabilities. Smart cities may change the way people experience their surroundings and their ability to provide contextual services is a key aspect to make cities more accessible, comprehensible, and enjoyable. The systematic review reported by the present chapter aimed to identify relevant research studies supported by smart cities infrastructures with an impact on accessible tourism. The literature search and the analysis of the retrieved articles were performed according to the preferred reporting items for systematic reviews and meta-analyses (PRISMA) guidelines. The results identify the most relevant achievements related to accessible tourism in the context of smart cities, including the types of smart services being developed and their maturity level.

scholarly journals Smart cities: potential and challenges

2021 ◽  
pp. 41-61
Author(s):  
Andrea Zanella
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Proof Of Concept ◽  
Smart Services ◽  
Main Research ◽  
Research Challenges ◽  
Enabling Technologies ◽  
The World ◽  
Smart Service

This paper aims to discuss a few fundamental questions related to the smart city paradigm, such as “what is actually a smart city?”, “what can we expect from a smart city?”,and “which problems have to be addressed and solved in order to turn a standard (dumb) city into a smart one?” Starting from a discussion of the Smart City concept, we will illustrate some of the most popular smart services using the results of proof-of-concept experiments carried out in different cities around the world. Successively, we will describe the fundamental functions required to build a smart service and the corresponding enabling technologies. We will then describe the main research challenges that need to be addressed in order to fulfill the Smart City vision, and we will conclude with some final remarks and considerations about the possible evolution of the Smart City concept.

scholarly journals How to Improve the Quality of Living in Smart Cities: Recommendations for a Citizen-centric Strategic Approach for Msheireb?

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Salma Mohamed Al Sulaiti
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Customer Relationship ◽  
Smart Services ◽  
Campaign Strategy ◽  
Frequent Use ◽  
Strategic Approach ◽  
Quality Of Living ◽  
The City

Various countries across the globe have implemented smart city initiatives to enhance the quality of living (QoL) for their citizens and other frequent users by offering smart services and innovative solutions. However, in many cases, end-users are often neglected during the planning, designing, and implementation phases of smart cities, which can impact the success of locally-based initiatives because their needs are not always fully taken into consideration. This research aims at exploring the approach of citizen-centricity in smart cities, define their key components, investigate the gap and challenges as perceived by citizens, users, and developers, and propose strategic recommendations for ways to enhance the QoL in Msheireb Smart City (MSC). The primary research was conducted to investigate citizens’ satisfaction, experience, usage of services, and to collect their feedback on areas of improvements in MSC. The results show that MSC’s users had low level of awareness about the smart services offered in the city, which resulted in less frequent use of the services. Based on this research, the strategic recommendations advise that smart city decision-makers should recognize citizens’ needs and preferences by implementing a customer relationship management strategy, promote citizens’ inclusion and engagement by establishing a citizen-centric inclusion strategy, and improve their awareness and usage of services by implementing a marketing campaign strategy.

The planning of smart elderly housing in Dubai with IoT technologies

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Chuloh Jung ◽  
Jihad Awad ◽  
Afaq Chohan
Keyword(s):  
Smart Home ◽  
Health Management ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Home Network ◽  
Common Denominator ◽  
Smart Services ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Elderly Housing ◽  
Physical Abilities

Purpose This paper aims to optimize the smart elderly housing planning with IoT (internet of things) technologies for an aging society in Dubai. To reflect the IoT technologies in the elderly housing, the characteristics of the IoT home network devices, applied to Ajman University (AU) testbed and smart services model with the IoT technologies are thoroughly analyzed. Design/methodology/approach To extract the optimal smart elderly housing model in Dubai, the Korean smart home model from smart cities in Korea was used to implement the testbed at AU. In total, 100 users survey had been performed to adjust the Korean model to local culture/context. Findings It was analyzed that convenience and functionality are factors that must be provided. The security system was pointed out as a common denominator for future enhancements. When IoT technologies are applied to elderly housing, it should focus on the safety and health management of the elderly. Social implications Dubai had announced a strategy to transform into a Smart City in 2014 and the strategy had included 100 initiatives. The base unit of smart homes, however, was not covered and furthermore as society grows older, the priority for IoT technologies application in the smart home should be focused on smart elderly housing, as the elderly is equivalent to the handicapped due to deteriorated physical abilities. Originality/value The characteristics of the IoT home network devices applied to the AU testbed and smart services model with the IoT technologies are thoroughly analyzed.

scholarly journals A Cloud-Based UTOPIA Smart Video Surveillance System for Smart Cities

2020 ◽  
Vol 10 (18) ◽  
pp. 6572
Author(s):  
Chel-Sang Yoon ◽  
Hae-Sun Jung ◽  
Jong-Won Park ◽  
Hak-Geun Lee ◽  
Chang-Ho Yun ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Video Surveillance ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Video Data ◽  
Smart Services ◽  
Video Cameras ◽  
Video Images ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
City System

A smart city is a future city that enables citizens to enjoy Information and Communication Technology (ICT) based smart services with any device, anytime, anywhere. It heavily utilizes Internet of Things. It includes many video cameras to provide various kinds of services for smart cities. Video cameras continuously feed big video data to the smart city system, and smart cities need to process the big video data as fast as it can. This is a very challenging task because big computational power is required to shorten processing time. This paper introduces UTOPIA Smart Video Surveillance, which analyzes the big video images using MapReduce, for smart cities. We implemented the smart video surveillance in our middleware platform. This paper explains its mechanism, implementation, and operation and presents performance evaluation results to confirm that the system worked well and is scalable, efficient, reliable, and flexible.

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