scholarly journals Assessing Impact, Performance and Sustainability Potential of Smart City Projects: Towards a Case Agnostic Evaluation Framework

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (13) ◽  
pp. 7395
Author(s):  
Konstantinos Kourtzanidis ◽  
Komninos Angelakoglou ◽  
Vasilis Apostolopoulos ◽  
Paraskevi Giourka ◽  
Nikolaos Nikolopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Performance Index ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Performance Metrics ◽  
Performance Indicator ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Project Performance ◽  
Evaluation Framework ◽  
Spatial And Temporal Scales ◽  
Impact Performance ◽  
Target Values

We report on a novel evaluation framework to globally assess the footprint of smart cities and communities (SCC) projects, being also expandable to the case of smart grid related projects. The uniform smart city evaluation (USE) framework is constructed upon three complementary evaluation axes: the first one aims to weigh up the success of a SCC project based on performance metrics against pre-defined project-specific target values. The second axis focuses on the project’s impact towards the sustainability of a city and it is bench-marked against national and international key objectives arising from strategic plans. This bench-marking feeds the third axis which provides a more inclusive evaluation against four pre-defined and widely acclaimed sectors of interest. The steps to be followed for the uniform evaluation of each axis and corresponding index are presented in detail, including necessary key performance indicator (KPI) normalization, weighting, and aggregation methods. The resulting indices’ scores for each axis (namely project performance index, sustainability impact index, and sustainability performance index) can be post-processed with adequate data processing and visualization tools to extract important information on the extent to which the range of success of a SCC project contributes to the city sustainability progress. Illustrative examples from an on-going SCC project are provided to highlight the strengths of the approach. The proposed framework can be used to compare multiple projects within a city and sustainability and project performance in different cities, evaluate the interventions chosen per project against city needs, benchmark and design future projects (with, e.g., reverse engineering, projections), as well as evaluate various spatial and temporal scales.

scholarly journals Smart Building Integration into a Smart City: Comparative Study of Real Estate Development

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (22) ◽  
pp. 9376
Author(s):  
Rasa Apanaviciene ◽  
Rokas Urbonas ◽  
Paris A. Fokaides
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Evaluation Framework ◽  
Comparative Case Study ◽  
Real Estate Development ◽  
Smart Buildings ◽  
Smart Building ◽  
Development Stages ◽  
Whole Life Cycle

Smart buildings and smart cities are not the future perspectives anymore—the smart building integration into a smart city is an actual question for today and tomorrow. Development of smart buildings not only enhances the smart city concept but also promotes positivity to the urban development and national economy, and increases the quality of life of the whole population reacting to global challenges of sustainability. The innovative smart building and smart city technologies enable us to overcome these challenges by being employed through all real estate (RE) project development stages. The Evaluation Framework for Real Estate Development in Smart Cities created by the authors provides the possibility to assess the existing as well as to forecast future RE projects integration into a smart city during the whole life-cycle stage. The practical application of the presented evaluation framework was illustrated by the comparative case study. Based on the created smart building integration into a smart city evaluation framework for real estate development, 10 RE projects in Lithuania and over the world were assessed and rated by selected criteria relevant to different RE development stages. The evaluation results revealed that, especially at the design and construction stages, the existing intelligence of RE projects and/or cities is insufficient. Although real estate projects are technologically advanced as single entities, the integration into smart city networks is limited by interoperability capabilities of the cities or by different strategic goals settled by real estate developers.

scholarly journals Intelligent Recommendations of Startup Projects in Smart Cities and Smart Health Using Social Media Mining

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Wahiba Ben Abdessalem Karaa ◽  
Eman Alkhammash ◽  
Thabet Slimani ◽  
Myriam Hadjouni
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Performance Metrics ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
National Income ◽  
Machine Learning Method ◽  
Learning Method ◽  
Social Media Mining ◽  
Smart Health ◽  
F Measure ◽  
Media Mining

The paper presents a recommendation model for developing new smart city and smart health projects. The objective is to provide recommendations to citizens about smart city and smart health startups to improve entrepreneurship and leadership. These recommendations may lead to the country’s advancement and the improvement of national income and reduce unemployment. This work focuses on designing and implementing an approach for processing and analyzing tweets inclosing data related to smart city and smart health startups and providing recommended projects as well as their required skills and competencies. This approach is based on tweets mining through a machine learning method, the Word2Vec algorithm, combined with a recommendation technique conducted via an ontology-based method. This approach allows discovering the relevant startup projects in the context of smart cities and makes links to the needed skills and competencies of users. A system was implemented to validate this approach. The attained performance metrics related to precision, recall, and F-measure are, respectively, 95%, 66%, and 79%, showing that the results are very encouraging.

scholarly journals Sustainable Cities: A KPI-Driven Sustainable Evaluation Framework for Smart Cities

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 21
Author(s):  
Ana Quijano ◽  
Jose L. Hernández ◽  
Pierre Nouaille ◽  
Mikko Virtanen ◽  
Beatriz Sánchez-Sarachu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Evaluation Framework ◽  
Market Potential ◽  
Sustainable Cities ◽  
Innovative Technologies ◽  
Sustainable Evaluation ◽  
Carbon Neutral ◽  
Sustainable Transition ◽  
Carbon Based

Cities are currently dealing with the sustainable transition from carbon-based economies to carbon-neutral cities. The H2020 mySMARTLife project seeks to demonstrate innovative technologies through the implementation of about 150 innovative energy solutions in the cites of Nantes, Hamburg and Helsinki. The evaluation framework that was defined and validated in the project enables the assessment of the environmental, energy, economic, social, ICT and governance aspects of replicable and sustainable smart city solutions with a high market potential. The main features and the process for their definition will be described in this paper.

scholarly journals Smart City Governance Evaluation in the Era of Internet of Things: An Empirical Analysis of Jiangsu, China

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (24) ◽  
pp. 13606
Author(s):  
Wei-Ling Hsu ◽  
Miao Qiao ◽  
Haiying Xu ◽  
Chunmei Zhang ◽  
Hsin-Lung Liu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
Research Area ◽  
Evaluation Framework ◽  
Decision Makers ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
New Research ◽  
Hierarchy Process

With the rapid development of smart cities all over the world, the evaluation of the smart city has become a new research hotspot in the academic circles. Nevertheless, there still exist a series of common problems in current smart city evaluation, including the cognitive deprivation, lack of experience in planning, low coordination level, etc. Therefore, it is critical to establish a new hierarchy for smart city evaluation indicators, especially in the 5G era. Based on literature review, expert consensus, and the fuzzy analytic hierarchy process, this study developed an innovative smart city evaluation framework. In the framework, an index comprising three dimensions, i.e., smart economy, smart society, and smart environmental protection, as well as several attributes for these dimensions for smart city evaluation were established. Then, taking Jiangsu Province, the fastest-growing province in China, as the research area, the development level of smart city for the cities in Jiangsu was calculated. The results have verified the effectiveness of the framework, which can provide suggestions for sustainable urbanization, and help urban decision-makers to promote the efficient development of smart cities.

scholarly journals Smart Building Integration into a Smart City (SBISC): Development of a New Evaluation Framework

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (9) ◽  
pp. 2190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rasa Apanaviciene ◽  
Andrius Vanagas ◽  
Paris A. Fokaides
Keyword(s):  
Smart Materials ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Evaluation Framework ◽  
Evaluation Methodology ◽  
Smart Buildings ◽  
Smart Building ◽  
Smart Mobility ◽  
Time Frames ◽  
The City

The aim of this study is to define the features that smart buildings should fulfil in order to be compatible with the overall context of the smart city and to introduce a new evaluation framework of Smart Buildings Integration into a Smart City (SBISC). By analysing scientific literature as well as existing international and local project examples, the features of smart buildings that are expected to be adopted in smart cities were identified. The SBISC evaluation methodology was developed and applied to a set of selected projects. The literature review revealed that the smart building and smart city concepts were developed in different time frames and by different stakeholders and, thus, need to be realigned. The most important aspect is to employ in a smart building all the functionalities proposed by the smart areas of the city and vice versa by enabling the recommended features of smart materials, smart building services, and smart construction to serve for the surrounding systems. Nine office buildings representing smart building concept in different smart cities built within the period 2007–2018 with a total area from 10,000 m2 to 143,000 m2 were selected for the analysis. The research of selected projects revealed that the smart buildings have more potential to become smarter by utilizing smart cities capabilities in the areas of smart energy, smart mobility, smart life, and smart environment. Smart cities are the most prominent trend in creating a cohesive environment.

scholarly journals Multi-Criteria Evaluation of Site Selection for Smart Community Demonstration Projects

Smart Cities ◽  
2022 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 22-33
Author(s):  
Ming-Shiu Sung ◽  
Shen-Guan Shih ◽  
Yeng-Horng Perng
Keyword(s):  
Site Selection ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Evaluation Model ◽  
Evaluation Criteria ◽  
Evaluation Framework ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
Multi Criteria Evaluation ◽  
Selection For ◽  
Smart Community

Definition and imagination of an ideal city can be traced back to the origin of garden city in UK about 100 years ago. Since then, many different names and topics have been proposed and smart city is the one most recently proposed. Starting from 2000, more and more countries have developed various demonstration projects for the promotion of smart city in order to provide total solution for the promotion of sustainable development and social welfare. In fact, some of them have been successfully carried out. Some researchers in Taiwan argue that the current mechanism by which government subsidies are allocated for smart city demonstration projects warrants improvement. A comprehensive literature review determined that the development potential of smart cities should be prioritized in site selection for such demonstration projects. This study developed an evaluation framework on the basis of multi-criteria evaluation methods to enable the identification of suitable smart city demonstration sites. Evaluation criteria were first identified through the Delphi method. Next, the weights of each criterion were derived through the analytic hierarchy process. Furthermore, the capability of the proposed evaluation model was determined through simulation testing. Four demonstration sites are simulated, they are: Taipower Smart Community, Yinlin Technology University campus, Taichung Creative Cultural Park, and Asian New Bay Area in Kaohsiung, It is expected that the research findings in this thesis can be helpful to the future decision for the demo site selection of smart city.

SenCity – Evaluating Users’ Experiences of Intelligent Lighting for Well-Being in Smart Cities

2018 ◽  
pp. 60-67
Author(s):  
Henrika Pihlajaniemi ◽  
Anna Luusua ◽  
Eveliina Juntunen
Keyword(s):  
Case Studies ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Evaluation Methods ◽  
Data Analyses ◽  
Sense Of Security ◽  
System Data

This paper presents the evaluation of usersХ experiences in three intelligent lighting pilots in Finland. Two of the case studies are related to the use of intelligent lighting in different kinds of traffic areas, having emphasis on aspects of visibility, traffic and movement safety, and sense of security. The last case study presents a more complex view to the experience of intelligent lighting in smart city contexts. The evaluation methods, tailored to each pilot context, include questionnaires, an urban dashboard, in-situ interviews and observations, evaluation probes, and system data analyses. The applicability of the selected and tested methods is discussed reflecting the process and achieved results.

Systematization of the smart city civil engineering infrastructure

2020 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 765-779
Author(s):  
E.V. Popov ◽  
K.A. Semyachkov ◽  
K.V. Zhunusova
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Process Management ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Urban Infrastructure ◽  
Infrastructure Development ◽  
Economic Innovation ◽  
Civil Engineering Infrastructure ◽  
Functional Transformations

Subject. This article explores the basic elements of the engineering infrastructure of smart cities. Objectives. The article aims to systematize theoretical descriptions of the engineering infrastructure of a smart city. Methods. For the study, we used a logical analysis and systematization. Results. The article highlights the main areas of infrastructure development of smart cities. Conclusions. Improving process management mechanisms, optimizing urban infrastructure, increasing the use of digital technologies, and developing socio-economic innovation improve the quality of the urban environment in a digitalized environment. And improving the efficiency of urban planning and security, studying its properties and characteristics, and forming an effective urban information system lead to its functional transformations.

YOUTH EXPECTATIONS OF SMART CITY LIVING: AN IMPORTANCE- PERFORMANCE ANALYSIS OF YOUNG RESIDENTS’ PERSPECTIVES OF CITY GOVERNMENT

2017 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
pp. 118-128
Author(s):  
Jason Cohen ◽  
Judy Backhouse ◽  
Omar Ally
Keyword(s):  
Performance Analysis ◽  
Young People ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
City Government ◽  
Diagnostic Tools ◽  
City Management ◽  
Bottom Up ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
The City

Young people are important to cities, bringing skills and energy and contributing to economic activity. New technologies have led to the idea of a smart city as a framework for city management. Smart cities are developed from the top-down through government programmes, but also from the bottom-up by residents as technologies facilitate participation in developing new forms of city services. Young people are uniquely positioned to contribute to bottom-up smart city projects. Few diagnostic tools exist to guide city authorities on how to prioritise city service provision. A starting point is to understand how the youth value city services. This study surveys young people in Braamfontein, Johannesburg, and conducts an importance-performance analysis to identify which city services are well regarded and where the city should focus efforts and resources. The results show that Smart city initiatives that would most increase the satisfaction of youths in Braamfontein  include wireless connectivity, tools to track public transport  and  information  on city events. These  results  identify  city services that are valued by young people, highlighting services that young people could participate in providing. The importance-performance analysis can assist the city to direct effort and scarce resources effectively.

Smart Cities: Necessity and Development Strategies

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (2) ◽  
pp. 52-58
Author(s):  
L. V. Shkvarya ◽  
A. S. Semenov
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Rapid Growth ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
First Century ◽  
Quality Improvements ◽  
Urban Settlement ◽  
Life Problems ◽  
Socio Economic Development ◽  
High Technologies

In the twenty-first century different countries and cities are increasingly seeking to introduce quality improvements in their livelihoods, generate for its residents an environment that is called “smart city” on the basis of high technologies. The article shows that the emergence of a “smart” city is an objective necessity due to the rapid growth of cities in the present and in the future. “Smart” city is designed to solve life problems in cities and create conditions for the socio-economic development of cities and countries, and for a favorable stay of residents on its territory. There are a number of strategies to implement the concept of “smart”, but it is important for each urban settlement to develop its own approaches and projects.

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