scholarly journals Smart City: A Shareable Framework and Its Applications in China

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (16) ◽  
pp. 4346 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chengming Li ◽  
Xiaoli Liu ◽  
Zhaoxin Dai ◽  
Zhanjie Zhao
Keyword(s):  
Communication Technology ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Multiple Stakeholders ◽  
Financial Investments ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Technological Barriers ◽  
The Government ◽  
City Systems ◽  
Or Applications

Smart City is a new concept that uses information and communication technology (ICT) to promote the smartification of urban construction, planning and services. Currently, a number of cities have conducted studies on smart cities, but they have mostly focused on analyzing the conceptual connotations or applications in specific domains and lack a shareable and integrated framework, which has led to significant barriers for individual smart projects. By analyzing the framework and applications of Smart City, this paper proposes a common, shareable and integrated conceptual framework. Then, based on this framework, it further proposes a unified portal platform that can balance multiple stakeholders, including the government, citizens and businesses, as well as for common, custom and other application modes. Finally, the implementation of Smart Weifang based on this platform is discussed. The applications indicate that this shareable platform can effectively eliminate the data and technological barriers between different smart city systems while also avoiding redundant financial investments. The investigation of this proposed framework and platform is highly significant for the unified construction of smart cities and the intensification of the hardware environment, thus representing a true achievement in the transition from ‘information islands’ to ‘information sharing and interconnection’ for urban informatization.

scholarly journals UNDERSTANDING SMART CITY: A SHAREABLE FRAMEWORK. THE CASE OF CHINA

2019 ◽  
Vol IV-4/W9 ◽  
pp. 71-78
Author(s):  
C. M. Li ◽  
X. L. Liu ◽  
Z. X. Dai ◽  
P. D. Wu
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Construction Planning ◽  
Financial Investments ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Technological Barriers ◽  
The Government ◽  
Multiple Domains ◽  
City Systems

Abstract. Smart City is a new concept that uses Information and Communication Technology (ICT) to promote the smartification of urban construction, planning and services. Currently, a number of countries and cities have conducted studies on Smart City, but they mostly focused on the conceptual connotations analysis and applications in specific domains, lacking a common, shareable and integrated framework understanding, which led to significant barriers among individual Smart City projects. By analyzing the framework connotations and application domains of Smart City, this paper proposed a common, shareable and integrated conceptual framework for smart city. Then based on this framework, a unified portal platform that is suitable for multiple domains, including the government, citizen and business, as well as common, custom and other application modes, is further proposed. Finally, Smart Weifang was implemented based on this platform. The application outcomes indicate that this common and shareable platform can effectively eliminate the data and technological barriers between different smart city systems, while also avoiding redundant financial investments. The investigation of the proposed framework and platform is of key significance to the unified construction of Smart City and the intensification of the hardware environment, thus representing a true achievement in the transition from “information island” to “information sharing and interconnection” for urban informatization.

scholarly journals CYBERSECURITY STRATEGY FOR SMART CITY IMPLEMENTATION

2019 ◽  
Vol XLII-4/W17 ◽  
pp. 3-6
Author(s):  
R. G. G. Alam ◽  
H. Ibrahim
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Standard Document ◽  
Security Threat ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Implementation Models ◽  
Cyberspace Security

Abstract. The development of information and communication technology has spread throughout the world. Many benefits can be obtained, but the risks cannot be avoided. Communication grows massively in cyberspace and thus poses a security threat to smart city services. This threat can be overcome through national spectrum by implementing cyberspace security strategies in developing smart cities. This paper describes cybersecurity strategies performed in supporting the development of smart cities. Security strategies are developed based on factors related to the perspective of three pillars of smart city implementation models, namely technology, people, and institutions. Factors related to cybersecurity from these three pillars are explored from the experience of policy makers, actors, and users of smart city services, and evaluated using the opinions of cybersecurity experts and smart cities. This strategy will be a standard document that will be used as a reference in carrying out all processes related to information security in supporting the development of smart cities.

How the smart governance model shapes cities? Cases from Europe

2021 ◽  
Vol ahead-of-print (ahead-of-print) ◽  
Author(s):  
Demokaan Demirel
Keyword(s):  
Communication Technology ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Academic Literature ◽  
Governance Model ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Smart Governance ◽  
City Models

Purpose This study aims to discuss the transformational effect of the smart governance concept, which is one of the complementary elements of the smart city concept and to explain the change in governance structures according to the developments in information and communication technology. Design/methodology/approach In this study, the case study as one of the qualitative research methods is preferred, and smart city models of Barcelona, Amsterdam, Kocaeli and Ankara are examined. Findings In the research, scientific studies in the academic literature were evaluated according to the content analysis, and as a result of this analysis, the cities examined were grouped as “beginner,” “medium” and “advanced.” In the group, the characteristics of smart cities and the services they offer were taken into account. In this context, smart governance methods and their transformational effects are analyzed. Originality/value The most important contribution of this study to the literature is to identify the important characteristics of developed and successful smart city initiatives and to encourage their application to other developing world cities as a best practices model.

scholarly journals From the accidental to articulated smart city: The creation and work of ‘Smart Dublin’

2018 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
pp. 349-364 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudio Coletta ◽  
Liam Heaphy ◽  
Rob Kitchin
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Urban Management ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Information And Communication

While there is a relatively extensive literature concerning the nature of smart cities in general, the roles of corporate actors in their production and the development and deployment of specific smart city technologies, to date there have been relatively few studies that have examined the situated practices by which the smart city unfolds in specific places. In this paper, we draw on three sets of interviews ( n = 114) and ethnographic fieldwork to chart the smart city ecosystem in Dublin, Ireland. We examine how the four city authorities have actively collaborated to frame a disparate and uncoordinated set of information and communication technology-led initiatives, what Dourish terms the ‘accidental smart city’, into an articulated vision of Dublin as a smart city. In particular, we focus on the work of ‘Smart Dublin’, a shared unit established to coordinate, manage and promote Dublin’s smart city initiatives and to drive new economic development opportunities centred on corporate interventions into urban management and living. Our analysis highlights the value of undertaking a holistic mapping of a smart city in formation, and the role of political and administrative geographies and specialist smart city units in shaping that formation.

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.

scholarly journals The Studies Through Smart Cities Model

2017 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 149-163
Author(s):  
Hicran Celikyak
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Communication Technologies ◽  
Rapid Urbanization ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
In The Beginning ◽  
New Criteria

Rapid urbanization and the advances in Information and Communication Technology have changed the definition of "city" all over the world. In the beginning, the concept emerged as Digital Cities and gradually changed to Smart Cities bringing criteria along. It is inevitable that, in future the concept will change and develop new criteria. There are many components in the smart city, with the knowledge of the idea of "information and communication technologies", which is the focus of smart cities and the cities of the future. The ability to define cities as smart is possible through the development of balanced applications around these applications. In this study, the Istanbul city will be evaluated in the context of smart city studies while it is presented with components of smart city concept.

scholarly journals An integrated platform for managing information in smart cities

2021 ◽  
Vol 301 ◽  
pp. 05004
Author(s):  
Justas Streimikis ◽  
Evgeniy Kislitsyn ◽  
Nadezhda Surnina ◽  
Viktor Gorodnichev
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Common Mechanism ◽  
Multiple Stakeholders ◽  
Main Challenge ◽  
Intelligent City ◽  
Integrated Platform ◽  
Software And Hardware ◽  
The Government ◽  
Functional Areas

This article focuses on defining the integrated platform for managing information in smart cities. We look into the smart city platforms that are increasingly used in today’s cities all around the world. Smart city platforms can be deployed on private, public or hybrid clouds, remote servers or onsite. By definition, a smart city platform integrates many different functional areas of the smart city in a single environment. The Smart city platform offers integrated functionality to coordinate intelligent city data, applications, solutions and services at one or more operational levels between multiple stakeholders with integrated functionality. By monitoring and analysing the use of urban assets, the government can distribute them to improve operational efficiency. The platform provides middleware and operational functionality across multiple software and hardware, integrates multiple communication protocols, and provides latent and free solutions for smart cities. Managing the huge amounts of data generated by IoT-based sensors and systems is a main challenge facing end users and providers. We show that smart city platforms serve to standardize data and information across many silo systems. It is demonstrated that they provide a common mechanism for visualizing and managing data to optimize the entire urban operation.

scholarly journals Conceptualizing Indonesia’s ICT-based Energy Security Tracking System with Detailed Indicators from Smart City Extension

2020 ◽  
Vol 188 ◽  
pp. 00007 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erkata Yandri ◽  
Roy Hendroko Setyobudi ◽  
Herry Susanto ◽  
Kamaruddin Abdullah ◽  
Yogo Adhi Nugroho ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Smart Grid ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Energy Security ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Tracking System ◽  
Security System ◽  
Four Dimensions ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Ict Infrastructure ◽  
The Government

The purpose of this study is to conceptualize Indonesia’s ICT-based energy security tracking system with detailed indicators of renewable energy (RE) and energy efficiency (EE) from the smart city extension. The opportunities for improvement to the energy security system is still wide open with the support of advances in information and communication technology (ICT) to integrate the internet and smart grid. The method refers to five main dimensions: availability, efficiency, affordability, sustainability, and governance. Then, how to link the concept of energy security with detailing indicator of RE and EE to the smart city. Empirically, energy security is a function of availability, efficiency, affordability, sustainability, and governance. The most important dimension is the Government (Go) to realize the interconnectivity and the information. If the Go has been realized, the other four dimensions will be easily obtained. With the development of ICT, the energy security status will certainly be more easily accessed anytime and anywhere by the stakeholders. The concept of a smart city usually integrated with the ICT infrastructure, especially for monitoring, management and decision-making tool. This research provides an overview of how the concept of energy security system is closely related to the implementation of the smart grid.

scholarly journals Sustainable and Reliable Information and Communication Technology for Resilient Smart Cities

Smart Cities ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 156-176
Author(s):  
Nikolay Tcholtchev ◽  
Ina Schieferdecker
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technology ◽  
Communication Technology ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Transportation Energy ◽  
City Community ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Current Article ◽  
Ict Infrastructure

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is at the heart of the smart city approach, which constitutes the next level of cities’ and communities’ development across the globe. Thereby, ICT serves as the gluing component enabling different domains to interact with each other and facilitating the management and processing of vast amounts of data and information towards intelligently steering the cities’ infrastructure and processes, engaging the citizens and facilitating new services and applications in various aspects of urban life—e.g., supply chains, mobility, transportation, energy, citizens’ participation, public safety, interactions between citizens and the public administration, water management, parking and many other cases and domains. Hence, given the fundamental role of ICT in cities in the near future, it is of paramount importance to lay the ground for a sustainable and reliable ICT infrastructure, which can enable a city/community to respond in a resilient way to upcoming challenges, whilst increasing the quality of life for its citizens. A structured way of providing and maintaining an open and resilient ICT backbone for a city/community is constituted by the concept of an Open Urban Platform. Therefore, the current article presents the activities and developments necessary to achieve a resilient, standardized smart city, based on Open Urban Platforms (OUP) and the way these serve as a blueprint for each city/community towards the establishment of a sustainable and resilient ICT backbone.

scholarly journals Smart City as A Tools to Achieve Sustainability City

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Helen Dian Fridayani ◽  
Rifaid Rifaid
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Open Space ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Smart Environment ◽  
Sustainable City ◽  
Co2 Gas ◽  
The Government ◽  
And Behavior ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Smart Government

Sustainable city is a city that designed by considering the impact on the environment, inhabited by population with a number and behavior that requires minimal support for energy, water and food from the outside, and produces less CO2, gas, air and water pollution. Moreover the national government envisions Indonesia2030which shallimplement the smart city towards sustainable development.Especially in Sleman Regency, the government is committed to make Sleman Regency as a Smart Regency in 2021. It could be shown in the vision of Sleman Regency which is The realization of a more prosperous Sleman community, Independent, Cultured and Integratede-governmentsystem to the Smart Regency in 2021”. This paper would like to analyze how the Sleman Regency implement the Smart city concept, and does the smart city concept can achive the sustainability city. The research uses the qualitative approach with in-deepth interview in examining the data, also the literature review. The result in this study reveals the following: firstly, from 2016-2019 Sleman regency has several applications to support the smart city implementation such as One Data of UMKM, Home Creative Sleman, Lapor Sleman app, Sleman Smart app, online tax app, e-patient, sleman emergency service, and Sleman smart room. Second, there are many elements in smart cities that are very important for smart government, smart life, smart economy, smart society, and smart environment. However, in supporting to support the realization of smart cities, not all aspects must be implemented properly to achieve a managed city, components related to smart environment cannot be implemented properly in Sleman Regency. There are still many problems regarding environmental problems such as the development of the construction of hotels and apartments that do not heed the environment, incrasing the populations, the limitations of green open space.

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