scholarly journals Edge-enabled Mobile Crowdsensing to Support Effective Rewarding for Data Collection in Pandemic Events

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Luca Foschini ◽  
Giuseppe Martuscelli ◽  
Rebecca Montanari ◽  
Michele Solimando
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Smart Devices ◽  
Mobile Crowdsensing ◽  
Share Data ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Emergency Scenarios ◽  
The City

AbstractSmart cities use Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to enrich existing public services and to improve citizens’ quality of life. In this scenario, Mobile CrowdSensing (MCS) has become, in the last few years, one of the most prominent paradigms for urban sensing. MCS allow people roaming around with their smart devices to collectively sense, gather, and share data, thus leveraging the possibility to capture the pulse of the city. That can be very helpful in emergency scenarios, such as the COVID-19 pandemic, that require to track the movement of a high number of people to avoid risky situations, such as the formation of crowds. In fact, using mobility traces gathered via MCS, it is possible to detect crowded places and suggest people safer routes/places. In this work, we propose an edge-anabled mobile crowdsensing platform, called ParticipAct, that exploits edge nodes to compute possible dangerous crowd situations and a federated blockchain network to store reward states. Edge nodes are aware of all critical situation in their range and can warn the smartphone client with a smart push notification service that avoids firing too many messages by adapting the warning frequency according to the transport and the specific subarea in which clients are located.

scholarly journals Smart cities survey: Technologies, application domains and challenges for the cities of the future

2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 155014771985398 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruben Sánchez-Corcuera ◽  
Adrián Nuñez-Marcos ◽  
Jesus Sesma-Solance ◽  
Aritz Bilbao-Jayo ◽  
Rubén Mulero ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Well Being ◽  
The Future ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The City

The introduction of the Information and Communication Technologies throughout the last decades has created a trend of providing daily objects with smartness, aiming to make human life more comfortable. The paradigm of Smart Cities arises as a response to the goal of creating the city of the future, where (1) the well-being and rights of their citizens are guaranteed, (2) industry and (3) urban planning is assessed from an environmental and sustainable viewpoint. Smart Cities still face some challenges in their implementation, but gradually more research projects of Smart Cities are funded and executed. Moreover, cities from all around the globe are implementing Smart City features to improve services or the quality of life of their citizens. Through this article, (1) we go through various definitions of Smart Cities in the literature, (2) we review the technologies and methodologies used nowadays, (3) we summarise the different domains of applications where these technologies and methodologies are applied (e.g. health and education), (4) we show the cities that have integrated the Smart City paradigm in their daily functioning and (5) we provide a review of the open research challenges. Finally, we discuss about the future opportunities for Smart Cities and the issues that must be tackled in order to move towards the cities of the future.

scholarly journals Model-Driven Mobile CrowdSensing for Smart Cities

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Paulo César F. Melo ◽  
Fábio M. Costa
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Mobile Devices ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Mobile Crowdsensing ◽  
Model Driven ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Models At Runtime

Making cities smarter can help improve city services, optimize resource and infrastructure utilization and increase quality of life. Smart Cities connect citizens in novel ways by leveraging the latest advances in information and communication technologies (ICT). The integration of rich sensing capabilities in today's mobile devices allows their users to actively participate in sensing the environment. In Mobile CrowdSensing (MCS) citizens of a Smart City collect, share and jointly use services based on sensed data. The main challenges for smart cities regarding MCS is the heterogeneity of devices and the dynamism of the environment. To overcome these challenges, this paper presents an architecture based on models at runtime (M@rt) to support dynamic MCS queries in Smart Cities. The architecture is proposed as an extension of the InterSCity platform, leveraging on its existing services and on its capability to integrate city infrastructure resources.

scholarly journals Managing Large Amounts of Data Generated by a Smart City Internet of Things Deployment

2016 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 22-42 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jorge Lanza ◽  
Pablo Sotres ◽  
Luis Sánchez ◽  
Jose Antonio Galache ◽  
Juan Ramón Santana ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Added Value ◽  
Amount Of Information ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The City

The Smart City concept is being developed from a lot of different axes encompassing multiple areas of social and technical sciences. However, something that is common to all these approaches is the central role that the capacity of sharing information has. Hence, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are seen as key enablers for the transformation of urban regions into Smart Cities. Two of these technologies, namely Internet of Things and Big Data, have a predominant position among them. The capacity to “sense the city” and access all this information and provide added-value services based on knowledge derived from it are critical to achieving the Smart City vision. This paper reports on the specification and implementation of a software platform enabling the management and exposure of the large amount of information that is continuously generated by the IoT deployment in the city of Santander.

Citizen Perceptions and Support for Smart City Projects

2020 ◽  
pp. 107-123 ◽  
Author(s):  
Héctor San Martín ◽  
Mª Mar García-de-los-Salmones ◽  
Ángel Herrero-Crespo
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Positive Attitude ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Environmental Safety ◽  
Safety And Health ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Citizen Perceptions

The Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) applied to territories leads to the phenomenon of “Smart City.” The goal of a smart project is to use technology to manage all of the issues of a city (mobility, heritage, environmental, safety, and health services) in a more sustainable, livable, and efficient way, which will result in improving the citizens' quality of life. To know how the individuals perceive and evaluate these smart initiatives, we surveyed 525 citizens of Santander, a city in Spain that has developed a smart city project. As a result, we found that the citizens who are more familiar with smart cities are more likely to perceive that these types of projects have positive economic, cultural, environmental, and reputational impacts for the towns. This group of citizens also has a more positive attitude toward smart cities, assesses more favorably the brand equity of the smart project under investigation, and shows higher support for it.

Smart Cities

2015 ◽  
pp. 61-78 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elsa Negre ◽  
Camille Rosenthal-Sabroux
Keyword(s):  
Information System ◽  
Tacit Knowledge ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Theoretical Studies ◽  
Digital Information ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The City

Smart City is a fuzzy concept that has not been clearly defined either in theoretical studies or in empirical projects. Smart Cities are based on Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), people (with their knowledge, habits, experiences, culture and behaviour) remain at the heart of concerns. In this chapter we are interested in the centrality of citizens (i.e. in the heart of the city) and of ICT in their environment. This leads us to take into account the tacit knowledge brought by citizens and the knowledge that may be divulged through ICT. We then present the concept of the Information and Knowledge System (IKS), and then we explain how it differs from that of the Digital Information System (DIS). We also point to the role of ICT in the DIS, and to their impact on improving the smartness of cities.

scholarly journals Quality of Life of the Population: the Impact of Digitalization

2021 ◽  
Vol 295 ◽  
pp. 01034
Author(s):  
Adigam Barlybaev ◽  
Zulfiya Ishnazarova ◽  
Inna Sitnova
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Integral Characteristic ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City ◽  
Qualitative Characteristics

The article analyzes the impact of digitalization on the life population quality, identifies areas, identifies the positive and negative impact of digitalization on the qualitative characteristics of the population’s life. The life quality is one of the important indicators of the level of development of society; it is a complex systemic integral characteristic of satisfaction with material and non-material factors of life of the population living in a certain territory. Since the environment and environmental conditions are constantly changing, various trends and patterns occur, the trends and requirements of our time, inevitably affect the life quality. One of such conditions, gaining momentum at the present time, is digitalization. Digitalization is the introduction of modern digital technologies in various spheres of life and production. Currently, in all types and levels of economic processes in the world and in individual countries, the so-called “digitalization” is gaining momentum - the active use of information and communication technologies. There is a need to accept digitalization as a universal process, adapt to it and use its levers for the best possible result for society. In nine areas, digitalization directly affects the life quality - the city, education, healthcare, economy, finance, information systems, infrastructure, business, and agriculture.

scholarly journals BUILDING THE ICT-ARCHITECTURE OF A SMART CITY

2021 ◽  
pp. 98-108
Author(s):  
V.V. Strigunov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Regulatory Requirements ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The City ◽  
Role Of Information

The paper examines the role of information and communication technologies in the development of smart cities, it shows the importance of supporting the consistency and functional compatibility of smart city devices and services through ICT architecture. A version of the multi-level ICT architecture of a smart city, based on the analysis of various architectures, is proposed, which describes in detail the connection and interaction of individual elements of the city digital infrastructure, as well as the impact which technical and regulatory requirements have on them.

scholarly journals Characterization and Efficient Management of Big Data in IoT-Driven Smart City Development

Sensors ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (11) ◽  
pp. 2430 ◽  
Author(s):  
Alaa Alsaig ◽  
Vangalur Alagar ◽  
Zaki Chammaa ◽  
Nematollaah Shiri
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
City Development ◽  
Efficient Management ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Service Oriented

Smart city is an emerging initiative for integrating Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) in effective ways to support development of smart cities with enhanced quality of life for its citizens through safe and secure context-aware services. Major technical challenges to realize smart cities include resource use optimization, service delivery without interruption at all times in all aspects, minimization of costs, and reduction of resource consumption. To address these challenges, new techniques and technologies are required for modeling and processing the big data generated and used through the underlying Internet of Things (IoT). To this end, we propose a data-centric approach to IoT in conceptualizing the “things” from a service-oriented perspective and investigate efficient ways to identify, integrate, and manage big data. The data-centric approach is expected to better support efficient management of data with complexities inherent in IoT-generated big data. Furthermore, it supports efficient and scalable query processing and reasoning techniques required in development of smart city applications. This article redresses the literature and contributes to the foundations of smart cities applications.

scholarly journals Smart city logistics

2020 ◽  
Vol 208 ◽  
pp. 04005
Author(s):  
Gleb Savin
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Human Life ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Economic Resources ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Large Material ◽  
Effective Use ◽  
The City

It can be argued that the scientific paradigm of sustainable development is only partially formed and today there is constant research, searches for the form, and methods of its increment. In the scientific literature (political discussions), this is one of the most used terms due to the wider coverage of the studied areas, as well as a long history in retrospect. But today the most used term is the category of a smart city, which goes beyond the usual discussions about the development of information and communication technologies, and the effective use of information serves as the basis for effective management and functioning of the city. At the same time, logistics expands the possibilities for the formation of a smart city, contributes to economic development, an increase in the quality of human life, the efficiency of the use of economic resources, optimization of flow and non-flow processes, the accumulation of large material, financial, labor and other resources for a competitive practical goal, providing flexibility, adaptability, and competitiveness in conditions for the formation of a digital society.

scholarly journals The emergent city. Interactive relational systems between public administration and citizen to foster sustainable processes of urban development

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 11-18
Author(s):  
Valentina Volpi ◽  
Mauro Palatucci ◽  
Giuseppe Marinelli de Marco
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Public Administration ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Emergent Properties ◽  
Interaction Patterns ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The City

The widespread of Information and Communication Technologies and the consequently redefinition of roles in the usage and management of the city brought along new systems of relationships and interactions that produce an auto-organisation of territories or communities, showed also through temporary transformation of the environment. In effect, cities are continuously redefined by emergent properties that may, both be originated and then impact on social, political, cultural, and economical people practices. On the other hand, through the arrangement of its patterns the city shapes the social and connective relations occurring among people. So, the city can be regarded as a complex system, that in the last years has been expanded by the widespread of communication devices and sensors connected to the Internet. In this context, the design of new patterns of interactions that focuses on the new relationship opportunities, in part offered by the Information and Communication Technologies, but not limited to them, may significantly affect sustainable processes of urban development. This paper focuses on the civic aspect of the so-called smart cities, and, in details, on the relation between citizens and Public Administration. Some existing interaction patterns are illustrated in order to support the visualisation of the dynamic relationships between citizens and Public Administration, while new possible relations derived by the interaction with the urban space are supposed.

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