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 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.

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

2019 ◽  
pp. 870-892
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 ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The City ◽  
Specification And Implementation

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.

scholarly journals TODAY's SMART CITY TRENDS IN THE WORLD

2020 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 340-345
Author(s):  
V.M. Katochkov ◽  
G.V. Savin ◽  
E.V. Toporkova
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Modern Trend ◽  
Global Cities ◽  
Global Power ◽  
The World ◽  
Information And Communication

Digitalization today is a modern trend focused on streamlining processes and improving efficiency. The introduction of information and communication technologies has affected not only enterprises, but complex socio-economic systems as cities, and this predetermined the development of smart cities. Today, IBM, McKinsey or Price Waterhouse are considered the brain centers for the development of this concept, while Siemens, BMW, Mercedes Benz, IBM, Phillips, General Electric, etc., discovered the “smart” city as a future-oriented concept, and chose only that a niche in which they can offer their products and services. The development of smart cities is also influenced by intergovernmental organizations and their specialized departments, as well as research centers, institutes and laboratories. There are more than 100 cities in the world that claim the title of “smart city”. At the same time, their current ratings reflect the implementation of modern information and communication technologies in the life of a person with the aim of improving the quality of his life in the development of the urban environment. The IESE Cities in Motion Index, Global Power City Index, The Global Cities Index, The Global Cities Outlook, Juniper Research, EasyPark Smart City Index ratings provide sufficient and comprehensive indicators to give this title. The developed standards ISO 37120 and ISO 37122 determine the main indicators for smart cities, while the criteria that determine the achievement of city smartness are conditionally formed today, which allows to clarify the semantic loads implemented in this definition, namely, to prioritize technologies for people and society, improving quality of life, and highlight differences with other similar definitions.

scholarly journals Urban Planning and the Smart City: Projects, Practices and Politics

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-68 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew Karvonen ◽  
Matthew Cook ◽  
Håvard Haarstad
Keyword(s):  
Urban Planning ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Environmental Performance ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
First Century ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Lasting Influence

Today’s smart city agendas are the latest iteration of urban sociotechnical innovation. Their aim is to use information and communication technologies (ICT) to improve the economic and environmental performance of cities while hopefully providing a better quality of life for residents. Urban planners have a long-standing tradition of aligning technological innovation with the built environment and residents but have been only peripherally engaged in smart cities debates to date. However, this situation is beginning to change as iconic, one-of-a-kind smart projects are giving way to the ‘actually existing’ smart city and ICT interventions are emerging as ubiquitous features of twenty-first century cities. The aim of this thematic issue is to explore the various ways that smart cities are influencing and being influenced by urban planning. The articles provide empirical evidence of how urban planners are engaging with processes of smart urbanisation through projects, practices, and politics. They reveal the profound and lasting influence of digitalisation on urban planning and the multiple opportunities for urban planners to serve as champions and drivers of the smart city.

scholarly journals Embodied AI-Driven Operation of Smart Cities: A Concise Review

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
FARZAN SHENAVARMASOULEH ◽  
Farid Ghareh Mohammadi ◽  
M. Hadi Amini ◽  
Hamid R. Arabnia
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Autonomous Driving ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Intelligent Network ◽  
Concise Review ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Cloud Technologies

<div>A smart city can be seen as a framework, comprised of Information and Communication Technologies (ICT). An intelligent network of connected devices that collect data with their sensors and transmit them using wireless and cloud technologies in order to communicate with other assets in the ecosystem plays a pivotal role in this framework. Maximizing the quality of life of citizens, making better use of available resources, cutting costs, and improving sustainability are the ultimate goals that a smart city is after. Hence, data collected from these connected devices will continuously get thoroughly analyzed to gain better insights into the services that are being offered across the city; with this goal in mind that they can be used to make the whole system more efficient.</div><div>Robots and physical machines are inseparable parts of a smart city. Embodied AI is the field of study that takes a deeper look into these and explores how they can fit into real-world environments. It focuses on learning through interaction with the surrounding environment, as opposed to Internet AI which tries to learn from static datasets. Embodied AI aims to train an agent that can See (Computer Vision), Talk (NLP), Navigate and Interact with its environment (Reinforcement Learning), and Reason (General Intelligence), all at the same time. Autonomous driving cars and personal companions are some of the examples that benefit from Embodied AI nowadays.</div><div>In this paper, we attempt to do a concise review of this field. We will go through its definitions, its characteristics, and its current achievements along with different algorithms, approaches, and solutions that are being used in different components of it (e.g. Vision, NLP, RL). We will then explore all the available simulators and 3D interactable databases that will make the research in this area feasible. Finally, we will address its challenges and identify its potentials for future research.</div>

Understanding Smart City Solutions in Turkish Cities From the Perspective of Sustainability

2018 ◽  
pp. 236-266
Author(s):  
H. Filiz Alkan Meshur
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Social Life ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Global Scale ◽  
Single Step ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
General Practices ◽  
Urban Problems

The purpose of this chapter is to analyze the concept of smart city and its potential solutions to correct urban problems. Smart city practices and solutions have been investigated through the lens of a sustainable perspective. As the general practices in the global scale were examined, particular focus has been directed to smart city practices in Turkey and applicable suggestions have been developed. A number of cities in Turkey rank the lowest in the list of livable cities index. Consequential to the rapidly rising population ratios, the quality of provided services declines; economic and social life in cities are adversely affected and brand images of cities are deteriorated. With the implementation of smart city practices, such problems could be corrected, and these cities could gain competitive advantage over their rivals. The key component of this smart administration is to most effectively utilize information and communication technologies during each single step of this process.

On Internet of Things and Big Data in University Courses

2019 ◽  
pp. 1393-1406
Author(s):  
Dmitry Namiot ◽  
Manfred Sneps-Sneppe
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Machine To Machine ◽  
University Courses ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The University ◽  
Educational Course

In this paper, the authors discuss Internet of Things educational programs for universities. The authors' final goal is to provide a structure for a new educational course for Internet of Things and related areas such as Machine to Machine communications and Smart Cities. The Internet of Things skills are in high demands nowadays and, of course, Internet of Things models, as well as appropriate Big Data proceedings elements should have a place in the university courses. The purpose of the proposed educational course is to cover information and communication technologies used in Internet of Things systems and related areas, such as Smart Cities. The educational course proposed in this paper aims to introduce students to modern information and communication technologies and create the formation of competencies needed for such areas as Machine to Machine communications, Internet of Things, and Smart Cities. Also, the authors discuss Big Data issues for IoT course and explain the importance of data engineering.

Towards a Secure, Distributed, and Reliable Cloud-Based Reference Architecture for Big Data in Smart Cities

2019 ◽  
pp. 38-70 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jens Kohler ◽  
Thomas Specht
Keyword(s):  
Big Data ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Traffic Management ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Distributed Data ◽  
Reference Architecture ◽  
Urban Services ◽  
Confidential Data ◽  
Information And Communication

Current revolutions with respect to big data affect people's everyday life more and more. New ways of living, communication, and knowledge sharing have been created under the smart city umbrella. Information and communication technologies (ICT) are used to improve urban services. Examples are car sharing, energy consumption, adaptive traffic management, etc. A closer look at these services reveals that data, produced and consumed by people (or automatically by devices), are the cornerstone for working and reliable urban services. For this, large volumes of data with a great variety have to be processed at a high velocity which is commonly known as big data. This chapter designs a secure, distributed, and reliable cloud-based reference architecture that logically separates confidential data and distributes them to various databases in different clouds. It increases the reliability of the distributed data with high-availability mechanisms to protect data against various threads (e.g., hackers, terrorists, data collecting companies, etc.).

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