scholarly journals Architecting and Designing Sustainable Smart City Services in a Living Lab Environment

Technologies ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
pp. 99 ◽  
Author(s):  
Md Alam ◽  
Jari Porras

In terms of sustainability, cities become smart when they provide smart services to the inhabitants using information and communication technologies without threatening the future of the environment, economy, or society. However, the process of developing such sustainable smart services has certain challenges, especially in understanding the real needs of the people living in the city. Citizens or, in a wider perspective, the inhabitants of the city are the key stakeholders in the case of smart services in a city. Active involvement of the people throughout the development process is a way of successfully designing such services. On the other hand, integrating sustainability, for example, including environmental data, into smart city services is challenging. Therefore, this research aims to combine environmental data with regular smart city services, while engaging city inhabitants in the development process. This approach was adapted from the concept of living lab methodology. Finally, an application developed following this method is presented and evaluated.

Author(s):  
Md Tawseef Alam ◽  
Jari Porras

In terms of sustainability, cities become smart when they provide intelligent services to the inhabitants using information and communication technologies without threatening the future of the environment, economy or the society. However, the process of developing such sustainable smart services has certain challenges, especially in understanding the real needs of the people living in the city. Inhabitants of the city or the citizens are the key stakeholders in case of smart services in a city. Active involvement of the people throughout the process is a way to design such services. On the other hand, integrating sustainability, for example including environmental data to the smart city services has been found challenging. Therefore, this research discusses an approach on combining environmental data with regular smart city services and to engage city inhabitants in the process, the approach that is adapted from the concept of living lab methodology. Finally, an application has been developed to represent a smart city service following this method.


2014 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 1-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hans Jochen Scholl ◽  
Marlen Jurisch ◽  
Helmut Krcmar ◽  
Margit C. Scholl

City governments around the world have increasingly engaged in “smart city” initiatives. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are at the core of these initiatives. City governments appear to play important roles in making the urban spaces, in which they are embedded, more attractive, more competitive, more livable, and smarter. The authors interviewed City officials in Munich, Germany, and asked for the definitions of “smart city,” which they then compared to Munich's smart city-related program. While the practitioners' definitions differed in part from those in the academic literature, the smart city overhaul program at Munich city government had a direct relationship to the practitioners' understanding of smartness. The authors portray and discuss the City of Munich institutional architecture overhaul and its expected and realized benefits, and compare the results to those of an earlier study on the City of Seattle. Both city governments evidently pursue different approaches, the effectiveness of which can more readily be assessed only at a future point of the smart city evolution.


Author(s):  
Jorge Lanza ◽  
Pablo Sotres ◽  
Luis Sánchez ◽  
Jose Antonio Galache ◽  
Juan Ramón Santana ◽  
...  

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.


2021 ◽  
pp. 98-108
Author(s):  
V.V. Strigunov ◽  

The paper examines the role of information and communication technologies in the development of smart cities, it shows the importance of supporting the consistency and functional compatibility of smart city devices and services through ICT architecture. A version of the multi-level ICT architecture of a smart city, based on the analysis of various architectures, is proposed, which describes in detail the connection and interaction of individual elements of the city digital infrastructure, as well as the impact which technical and regulatory requirements have on them.


2015 ◽  
pp. 1739-1760
Author(s):  
Hans J. ("Jochen") Scholl ◽  
Marlen Jurisch ◽  
Helmut Krcmar ◽  
Margit C. Scholl

City governments around the world have increasingly engaged in “smart city” initiatives. Information and communication technologies (ICTs) are at the core of these initiatives. City governments appear to play important roles in making the urban spaces, in which they are embedded, more attractive, more competitive, more livable, and smarter. The authors interviewed City officials in Munich, Germany, and asked for the definitions of “smart city,” which they then compared to Munich's smart city-related program. While the practitioners' definitions differed in part from those in the academic literature, the smart city overhaul program at Munich city government had a direct relationship to the practitioners' understanding of smartness. The authors portray and discuss the City of Munich institutional architecture overhaul and its expected and realized benefits, and compare the results to those of an earlier study on the City of Seattle. Both city governments evidently pursue different approaches, the effectiveness of which can more readily be assessed only at a future point of the smart city evolution.


2019 ◽  
Vol 15 (6) ◽  
pp. 155014771985398 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruben Sánchez-Corcuera ◽  
Adrián Nuñez-Marcos ◽  
Jesus Sesma-Solance ◽  
Aritz Bilbao-Jayo ◽  
Rubén Mulero ◽  
...  

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.


2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (12) ◽  
pp. 4636 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefano Bracco ◽  
Federico Delfino ◽  
Paola Laiolo ◽  
Andrea Morini

The article is focused on the “demonstration” activities carried out by the University of Genoa at Savona Campus facilities in order to implement the “Living Lab Smart City”. The idea is to transform the Savona Campus in a Living Lab of the City of the Future: smart technologies in Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and energy sectors were installed in order to show a real application of the Smart City concept to population and external stakeholders. Moreover, special attention was given to the environment, personal wellbeing, and social equalities. The sustainable energy Research Infrastructures (RIs) of Savona Campus allowed enhancement of the applied research in degree programs and the collaboration with several companies. In particular, an important partnership with the Italian electric Distribution System Operator (DSO), ENEL S.p.A., started in 2017 to test the capability of these RIs to operate disconnected from the National Grid, relying only on the supply of renewables and storage systems. The “Living Lab Smart City” is an important action to reduce the carbon footprint of the Savona Campus and to increase the awareness of students, teachers and researchers towards Sustainable Development in Higher Education Institutes.


2020 ◽  
pp. 1-11
Author(s):  
Weihua He

Shortly after hosting the Seventh CISM Military World Games, the city of Wuhan was hit by Covid-19, and thus became a centre of global attention. To protect the life and health of the people in Wuhan, China declared an all-out war to contain the virus. Using drastic measures that exacted high socio-economic costs, Wuhan was gradually restored to peace, vitality, and prosperity. In a city under lockdown, coordination, management, and governance at different levels were facilitated by information and communication technologies. This article examines the enhanced capabilities of individuals and institutions in a digital age to respond to crises, and the debates and ideological entanglements relating to the virus. It concludes with an anticipation of the ‘New Normal’ after the pandemic by responding to Giorgio Agamben’s views on the ‘state of exception’.


2020 ◽  
Vol 208 ◽  
pp. 04005
Author(s):  
Gleb Savin

It can be argued that the scientific paradigm of sustainable development is only partially formed and today there is constant research, searches for the form, and methods of its increment. In the scientific literature (political discussions), this is one of the most used terms due to the wider coverage of the studied areas, as well as a long history in retrospect. But today the most used term is the category of a smart city, which goes beyond the usual discussions about the development of information and communication technologies, and the effective use of information serves as the basis for effective management and functioning of the city. At the same time, logistics expands the possibilities for the formation of a smart city, contributes to economic development, an increase in the quality of human life, the efficiency of the use of economic resources, optimization of flow and non-flow processes, the accumulation of large material, financial, labor and other resources for a competitive practical goal, providing flexibility, adaptability, and competitiveness in conditions for the formation of a digital society.


2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 497-513
Author(s):  
Nazmiye Nur Şenyıl ◽  
Süheyla Büyükşahin

Smart cities are a way of life that emerged after the 2000s in order to produce innovative solutions by using information and communication technologies and to transform cities into livable conditions, with awareness and consciousness against global problems and adverse living conditions. With the use of developing technologies and the inclusion of sustainability in every sense, smart applications are developed and ease of use is provided by including these applications in urban life. Thanks to this concept, which consists of different sub-components, urban life, which creates crowded living spaces, becomes smart from their current situation and comes to a position that provides its own future. Smart city formation emerges as an important issue in the effort of reaching the future, affecting every city that exists globally as a result of the cooperation of technological developments, innovations and sustainability. Especially in recent years, intensive researches, applications and studies have been carried out in order to create smart cities in the global sense. However, apart from some cities that have developed themselves in this sense, smart applications developed to create smart cities are used in pilot areas with limited access and cannot be generalized. The city of Konya, which was chosen as the sample area within the scope of the study; It is one of the leading cities in Turkey that develops itself by using smart applications and sustainable methods and develops in the process of becoming a smart city. It is aimed to examine and evaluate the smart city applications discussed in this study and to make suggestions on the diversification and dissemination of such smart city applications. ​Extended English summary is in the end of Full Text PDF (TURKISH) file. Özet   Akıllı kentler, 2000’li yıllardan sonra küresel anlamda meydana gelen problemler ve olumsuz yaşama şartlarına karşı oluşan farkındalık ve bilinç ile bilgi iletişim teknolojileri kullanılarak yenilikçi çözümler üretilmesi ve kentlerin yaşanabilir hale dönüştürülmesi için ortaya çıkmış bir yaşam şeklidir. Gelişen teknolojilerin kullanılması ve bu kullanıma her anlamda sürdürülebilirliğin katılması ile akıllı uygulamalar geliştirilmekte ve kent yaşamına bu uygulamalar dahil edilerek kullanım kolaylıkları sağlanmaktadır. Farklı alt bileşenlerden oluşan bu kavram sayesinde kalabalık yaşam alanlarını oluşturan kent hayatları, mevcut durumlarından akıllı hale geçerek kendi geleceğini kendi sağlayan bir konuma gelmektedir. Akıllı kent oluşumu, teknolojik gelişmeler, yenilikler ve sürdürülebilirlik kavramının beraber çalışması sonucu küresel anlamda var olan her kenti etkileyen ve geleceğe ulaşma çabasında önem taşıyan bir konu olarak karşımıza çıkmaktadır. Özellikle son yıllarda küresel anlamda akıllı kentler oluşturabilmek için yoğun araştırmalar, uygulamalar ve çalışmalar yapılmaktadır. Ancak Türkiye’de bu anlamda kendini geliştirmiş bazı kentler dışında akıllı kentler oluşturabilmek için geliştirilen akıllı uygulamalar pilot alanlarda sınırlı erişim ile kullanılmakta ve genele yaygınlaştırılamamaktadır. Çalışma kapsamında örneklem alan olarak seçilen Konya kenti; Türkiye’de akıllı uygulamalar ve sürdürülebilir yöntemler kullanarak kendini geliştiren ve akıllı kent olma sürecinde gelişim gösteren kentlerin başında gelmektedir. Bu çalışmada ele alınan akıllı kent uygulamalarının incelenmesi ve değerlendirilmesi ile bu tarz akıllı kent uygulamalarının çeşitlendirilmesi ve yaygınlaştırılması konusunda öneriler getirilmesi amaçlanmaktadır.


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