Using blockchain to provide trusted interoperability to system-of-systems in smart cities context

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefano Momo Loss
Keyword(s):  
Smart Cities ◽  
System Of Systems

scholarly journals Cities in an era of interfacing infrastructures: Politics and spatialities of the urban nexus

Urban Studies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (11) ◽  
pp. 2191-2206 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jochen Monstadt ◽  
Olivier Coutard
Keyword(s):  
Smart Cities ◽  
Urban System ◽  
System Of Systems ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Special Issue ◽  
Major Research ◽  
Research Gaps ◽  
System Operation ◽  
Research And Practice ◽  
Potential Risks

Over the last few years, nexus-thinking has become a buzzword in urban research and practice. This also applies to recent claims of greater integration or coordination of urban infrastructures that have traditionally been managed separately and have been unbundled. The idea is to better address their growing sociotechnical complexity, their externalities and their operation within an urban system of systems. This article introduces a collection of case studies aimed at critically appraising how concepts of nexus and infrastructure integration have become guiding visions for the development of green, resilient or smart cities. It assesses how concepts of nexus and calls for higher interconnectivity and ‘co-management’ within and across infrastructure domains often forestall more politically informed discussions and downplay potential risks and institutional restrictions. Based on an urban political and sociotechnical approach, the introduction to this special issue centres around four major research gaps: 1) the tensions between calls for infrastructure re-bundling and the urban trends and realities driven by infrastructure restructuring since the 1990s; 2) the existing boundary work in cities and urban stakeholders’ practices in bringing fragmented urban infrastructures together; 3) the politics involved in infrastructural and urban change and in aligning urban infrastructures that often defy managerial rhetoric of resource efficiency, smartness and resilience; and 4) the spatialities at play in infrastructural reconfigurations that selectively promote specific spaces and scales of metabolic autonomy, system operation (and failure), networked interconnectivities and system regulation. We conclude by outlining directions for future research.

scholarly journals A Roadmap to Nextgen Aircraft Control for Last Mile Delivery Drones

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cesar Augusto Marcondes ◽  
Denis Loubach ◽  
Elton Sbruzzi ◽  
Filipe Verri ◽  
Johnny Marques ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decentralized Control ◽  
Cost Reduction ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
System Of Systems ◽  
Aircraft Control ◽  
Speed Increase ◽  
Last Mile ◽  
Air Space ◽  
Delivery Services ◽  
Last Mile Delivery

<div>According to recent studies, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) can play a game-changing part in terms of cost reduction and speed increase to address the last-mile delivery (LMD) problem and also to attend emergencies. Last-mile delivery services are getting more and more relevant, especially when in times where social distance is required. Given this scenario, our paper introduces a cyber-physical (CPS) system roadmap propose applicable for last-mile delivery drones. The proposed CPS guidelines are based on the concept of system of systems to enable an emerging behavior towards smart cities’ governance. In this paper, we also discuss topics from air space control and reservation throughout communication infrastructure and decentralized control supported on a blockchain.</div><div><br></div>

scholarly journals Safety of Smart Cities

2016 ◽  
Vol 15 (8) ◽  
pp. 6979-6985
Author(s):  
Dana Prochazkova ◽  
Jan Prochazka
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Safety Management ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
System Of Systems ◽  
Modern Concept ◽  
Human Society ◽  
Human Errors ◽  
Human Community ◽  
Life Conditions ◽  
Diversity Of Life

Present work is based on the concept of integral safety management of system of systems and it gives the proposal of set of measures into the simultaneously modern concept of communities called “smart cities”. The target is to ensure the safe smart city, i.e. the human community that will ensure the security and the development of their citizens under the conditions of normal, abnormal and critical. This demand is important because the mentioned diversity of life conditions is the result of both, the dynamic development of world and the human errors at control of behaviour of human society in the community.

Smart City Applications

2019 ◽  
pp. 274-305
Author(s):  
B. Janet ◽  
Pethuru Raj
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Vital Role ◽  
System Of Systems ◽  
Careful Consideration ◽  
Multiple Factors ◽  
Future Challenges ◽  
Immense Potential ◽  
The Internet Of Things ◽  
Selection Of

We have been writing about the significant contributions of several proven and promising technologies in ensuring the desired success of smart cities. However, the selection of technologies for establishing intelligent cites has to be made after a careful consideration of multiple factors. There are several technologies coming and going without contributing anything substantial for the originally visualized and articulated needs, and hence, the choice plays a vital role in shaping up and strengthening our cities for future challenges and changes. Another noteworthy point is that instead of going for a single technology, it is prudent and pertinent to embrace a cluster of technologies to reach the desired state comfortably. Technology clusters are becoming prominent these days. Especially considering the growing complexity of smart cities (being touted as the system of systems), the need for a collection of competent technologies is being felt across not only the technology-cluster choice but also the appropriate usage of it also is pivotal in achieving the target in a risk-free and relaxed manner. Thus, any smart city strategy has to clearly illuminate resilient technologies and methodologies together towards accelerating and attaining the varied goals of smart cities in this vast and vivacious planet. In this chapter, the authors discuss the immense potential and promise of the newly coined paradigm of the internet of things (IoT) in making next-generation cities that sharply elevate the features, facilities, and functionalities of our crumbling and clogging cities.

scholarly journals A Roadmap to Nextgen Aircraft Control for Last Mile Delivery Drones

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cesar Augusto Marcondes ◽  
Denis Loubach ◽  
Elton Sbruzzi ◽  
Filipe Verri ◽  
Johnny Marques ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Decentralized Control ◽  
Cost Reduction ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
System Of Systems ◽  
Aircraft Control ◽  
Speed Increase ◽  
Last Mile ◽  
Air Space ◽  
Delivery Services ◽  
Last Mile Delivery

<div>According to recent studies, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) can play a game-changing part in terms of cost reduction and speed increase to address the last-mile delivery (LMD) problem and also to attend emergencies. Last-mile delivery services are getting more and more relevant, especially when in times where social distance is required. Given this scenario, our paper introduces a cyber-physical (CPS) system roadmap propose applicable for last-mile delivery drones. The proposed CPS guidelines are based on the concept of system of systems to enable an emerging behavior towards smart cities’ governance. In this paper, we also discuss topics from air space control and reservation throughout communication infrastructure and decentralized control supported on a blockchain.</div><div><br></div>

Technologies Disability and Inclusion

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomas Brusell
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Future Development ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Modern Technology ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Disabled ◽  
Information And Communication

When modern technology permeates every corner of life, there are ignited more and more hopes among the disabled to be compensated for the loss of mobility and participation in normal life, and with Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), Exoskeleton Technologies and truly hands free technologies (HMI), it's possible for the disabled to be included in the social and pedagogic spheres, especially via computers and smartphones with social media apps and digital instruments for Augmented Reality (AR) .In this paper a nouvel HMI technology is presented with relevance for the inclusion of disabled in every day life with specific focus on the future development of &quot;smart cities&quot; and &quot;smart homes&quot;.

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