scholarly journals Sensor Fusion for Public Space Utilization Monitoring in a Smart City

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 473-481 ◽  
Author(s):  
Billy Pik Lik Lau ◽  
Nipun Wijerathne ◽  
Benny Kai Kiat Ng ◽  
Chau Yuen
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Sensor Fusion ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Space Utilization

scholarly journals Social media and efficient computer infrastructure in smart city

2018 ◽  
Vol 57 ◽  
pp. 01003
Author(s):  
Jerzy Balicki ◽  
Honorata Balicka ◽  
Piotr Dryja ◽  
Maciej Tyszka
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Traffic Congestion ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Communication Systems ◽  
Collective Intelligence ◽  
Sustainable Transportation ◽  
Bee Colony ◽  
Big City ◽  
Key Resources

Social media require an efficient infrastructures of computer and communication systems to support a smart city. In a big city, there are several crucial dilemmas with a home and public space planning, a growing population, a global warming, carbon emissions, a lack of key resources like water and energy, and a traffic congestion. In a smart city, we expect an efficient and sustainable transportation, efficient management of resources and a better urban planning. In this paper, social media are proposed to support smart city with efficient computer infrastructure. Moreover, some methods are described to increase the availability and efficiency of an information infrastructure. Two criteria have been formulated to assign some key resources in a smart city system. The process of finding some compromise solutions from Pareto-optimal solutions has been illustrated. Metaheuristics o f collective intelligence, including particle swarm optimization PSO, ant colony optimization ACO, an algorithm of bee colony ABC, and differential evolution DE have been described due to smart city infrastructure improving. Other application of above metaheuristics in smart city have been also presented.

scholarly journals Who trusts in the smart city? Transparency, governance, and the Internet of Things

Data & Policy ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naomi Jacobs ◽  
Peter Edwards ◽  
Milan Markovic ◽  
Caitlin D Cottrill ◽  
Karen Salt
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Good Governance ◽  
Evaluation Process ◽  
Careful Consideration ◽  
System Level ◽  
New Governance ◽  
Data Governance ◽  
The Public

Abstract Internet of Things (IoT) devices such as connected sensors are increasingly being used in the public sector, often deployed and collecting data in public spaces. A theme commonly seen in the rhetoric surrounding public space IoT initiatives is empowerment, and these deployments are broadly perceived as beneficial by policy makers. However, such technology presents new governance challenges. It is important to ask who is empowered and who benefits, and we must ensure that such technological interventions follow democratic principles and are trusted by citizens. In this paper, we investigate how risk, transparency, and data governance require careful consideration in this domain, describing work which investigates how these combine to form components of trusted IoT ecosystems. This includes an overview of the landscape of public space IoT deployments, consideration of how they may often be subsumed in idealized smart city focused rhetoric, and discussion of how methodologies such as design fiction in community settings can uncover potential risks and concerns. Our findings suggest that agency, value and intent associated with IoT systems are key components that must be made transparent, particularly when multiple actors and stakeholders are involved. We suggest that good governance requires consideration of these systems in their entirety, throughout the full planning, implementation, and evaluation process, and in consultation with multiple stakeholders who are impacted, including the public. To achieve this effectively, we argue for transparency at the device and system level, which may require legislative change.

scholarly journals Social media for e-learning of citizens in smart city

2018 ◽  
Vol 57 ◽  
pp. 01002
Author(s):  
Jerzy Balicki ◽  
Honorata Balicka ◽  
Piotr Dryja ◽  
Maciej Tyszka
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Sustainable Transportation ◽  
Cloud Services ◽  
Pedagogical Agents ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
City Management ◽  
E Learning

The rapid development of social media can be applied for citizens’ e-learning in a smart city. Big cities have to cope with several open issues like a growing population or a traffic congestion. Especially, a home and public space is supposed to be used in more efficient way. Sustainable homes and buildings can be planned with using some modern techniques. Even currently, there is a huge problem with a lack of key resources like water and energy. So, an efficient management of resources is strongly required. What is more, a global warming and carbon emissions are considered as some critical factors for living conditions in many cities, too. A vision of a smart city is related to a better protection of a natural environment and a more efficient use of it. Moreover, citizens expect an efficient and sustainable transportation in livable city. To present some solutions on above issues, this paper outlines the methodology of using social media to provide necessary knowledge by citizenship training systems. In particular, some selected e-learning applications have been characterized. They are related to pedagogical agents in e-learning. In addition, some advanced meta-heuristics have been proposed with particular emphasis on genetic programming, artificial neural networks, neuro-evolution algorithms, support vector machines, and some collective intelligence algorithms. Finally, cloud services are discussed regarding a smart city management and training.

scholarly journals COWORKING IS A PUBLIC SPACE IN A SMART CITY

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Соларева Александра ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Public Place ◽  
Main Drawback ◽  
Modern Economic ◽  
Coworking Spaces

The article analyzes coworking as a public place in a smart city. The idea of coworking appeared with the development of freelancing, since its main drawback is the lack of a workplace, a team, and a generally "working" atmosphere. Coworking spaces are in demand and are gaining popularity in Russian cities in modern economic conditions, in the context of a pandemic and digitalization. To determine the significance of various parameters of the coworking organization, the author conducted a research. It examined three cities: Perm, Yekaterinburg, and Samara, and used content analysis to study the expectations of coworking users.

scholarly journals Fog Computing for Smart Cities’ Big Data Management and Analytics: A Review

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 190
Author(s):  
Elarbi Badidi ◽  
Zineb Mahrez ◽  
Essaid Sabir
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Public Space ◽  
Data Storage ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Fog Computing ◽  
Space Management ◽  
Network Bandwidth ◽  
Edge And Fog Computing

Demographic growth in urban areas means that modern cities face challenges in ensuring a steady supply of water and electricity, smart transport, livable space, better health services, and citizens’ safety. Advances in sensing, communication, and digital technologies promise to mitigate these challenges. Hence, many smart cities have taken a new step in moving away from internal information technology (IT) infrastructure to utility-supplied IT delivered over the Internet. The benefit of this move is to manage the vast amounts of data generated by the various city systems, including water and electricity systems, the waste management system, transportation system, public space management systems, health and education systems, and many more. Furthermore, many smart city applications are time-sensitive and need to quickly analyze data to react promptly to the various events occurring in a city. The new and emerging paradigms of edge and fog computing promise to address big data storage and analysis in the field of smart cities. Here, we review existing service delivery models in smart cities and present our perspective on adopting these two emerging paradigms. We specifically describe the design of a fog-based data pipeline to address the issues of latency and network bandwidth required by time-sensitive smart city applications.

Connecting places: towards a participatory, ordinary urbanism

2019 ◽  
pp. 205-226
Author(s):  
Geoff Vigar ◽  
Georgiana Varna
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Urban Design ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Design Thinking ◽  
Transport Policy ◽  
Macro Level ◽  
Place Making ◽  
Transport Planning ◽  
Regulatory Systems ◽  
Micro Level

This chapter examines the opportunities and pitfalls of integrating transport planning with urban design and place-making strategies, using design thinking as a way to address many of the ‘intractables’ associated with implementing transport policy. We argue for a focus on the substance and consistency of macro level strategy alongside the significance of creative and consistent micro level interventions. We position our argument alongside smart city debates, aiming to reinsert into these a more ‘ordinary’ approach that celebrates the significance of intervention in ‘ordinary neighbourhoods’ through the deployment of ‘ordinary technologies’ (benches, quality pavements) to create more livable cities and neighbourhoods. We concur that planning is a form of knowledge in action but choices over what counts as knowledge and how it is used and deployed are highly significant. In doing so, and to better secure citizen buy-in to the transformation of public space, we argue for an approach centred on co-design to counter planning orthodoxy that subverts people’s everyday needs to the paradigms and embedded routines of regulatory systems.

A Smart City Initiative

2017 ◽  
pp. 561-583
Author(s):  
Anna Pawlikowska-Piechotka ◽  
Natalia Łukasik ◽  
Anna Ostrowska-Tryzno ◽  
Karolina Sawicka
Keyword(s):  
Public Space ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Evaluation Method ◽  
Urban Parks ◽  
Correlation Factor ◽  
Cultural Resources ◽  
Scoring Method ◽  
Sustainable Environment ◽  
Sport Facilities ◽  
Sport And Recreation

This chapter presents theoretical base for the creation of the Smart Evaluation Method (SEM) and an attempt to use this scoring method in practice for measuring environment, sport and recreation potentials of urban greens. A multi-item questionnaire instrument was used to assess selected urban parks: environment quality (air, soil, and water), natural resources (greens, water, and landscape), socio-cultural resources (as public safety), recreation and sport facilities (as children playgrounds, tennis courts, pathways), and park visitor's satisfaction. The survey was carried out in eight selected urban parks in Warsaw and Madrid. With the use of correlation, factor and graphic analysis of their quality, a number of subjective and objective factors which might determine urban greens potentials were identified. They include strong and weak points of the sport and recreation programme of urban parks which were identified. The SEM method was developed with a goal of responding to the challenges of smart city, helping to create sustainable environment and reduce negative consequences of climate change, improve information about public space programme and promote active lifestyle. The knowledge acquired on the base of the SEM innovative scoring method and its outcomes analyse could help to develop smart planning and management of urban greens, enhance the quality of life, provide healthier environment and improve the use of public space.

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