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

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.

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On Internet of Things and Big Data in University Courses

Smart Cities and Smart Spaces ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-7030-1.ch062 ◽

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.

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BUILDING THE ICT-ARCHITECTURE OF A SMART CITY

Informatika i sistemy upravleniya ◽

10.22250/isu.2021.68.98-108 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 98-108

Author(s):

V.V. Strigunov ◽

Keyword(s):

Information And Communication Technologies ◽

Smart City ◽

Smart Cities ◽

Communication Technologies ◽

Regulatory Requirements ◽

Information And Communication ◽

The Impact ◽

The City ◽

Role Of Information

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.

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Smart cities survey: Technologies, application domains and challenges for the cities of the future

International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks ◽

10.1177/1550147719853984 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 15 (6) ◽

pp. 155014771985398 ◽

Cited By ~ 17

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.

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On Internet of Things and Big Data in University Courses

International Journal of Embedded and Real-Time Communication Systems ◽

10.4018/ijertcs.2017010102 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 8 (1) ◽

pp. 18-30 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

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.

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Characterization and Efficient Management of Big Data in IoT-Driven Smart City Development

Sensors ◽

10.3390/s19112430 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 19 (11) ◽

pp. 2430 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

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.

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

10.36227/techrxiv.16370823 ◽

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>

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

Advances in Civil and Industrial Engineering - Big Data Analytics for Smart and Connected Cities ◽

10.4018/978-1-5225-6207-8.ch003 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 38-70 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

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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Building Sound Foundations for Smart City Government

International Journal of E-Planning Research ◽

10.4018/ijepr.2014100101 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 3 (4) ◽

pp. 1-22 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Hans Jochen Scholl ◽

Marlen Jurisch ◽

Helmut Krcmar ◽

Margit C. Scholl

Keyword(s):

Information And Communication Technologies ◽

Smart City ◽

Communication Technologies ◽

City Government ◽

Urban Spaces ◽

City Governments ◽

Academic Literature ◽

Information And Communication ◽

Institutional Architecture ◽

The City

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.

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Access to ICT in Poland and the Co-Creation of Urban Space in the Process of Modern Social Participation in a Smart City—A Case Study

Sustainability ◽

10.3390/su12052136 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 12 (5) ◽

pp. 2136 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

Patrycja Szarek-Iwaniuk ◽

Adam Senetra

Keyword(s):

Decision Making ◽

Information And Communication Technologies ◽

Urban Space ◽

Social Participation ◽

Smart City ◽

Local Community ◽

Smart Cities ◽

Communication Technologies ◽

Social Awareness ◽

Information And Communication

A smart city is one of the latest concepts in the development of modern cities. It has evolved from the foregoing smart cities 1.0 and 2.0 to the smart city 3.0, where members of the local community play the main role as not only the recipients of the introduced changes and modern technology, but also as the creators of urban space. One of the goals of a smart city 3.0 is to promote sustainable urban development by improving the quality of life, enhancing social participation, and involving local community members in planning and decision-making processes. This study set out to determine the role and significance of e-participation methods in the smart city concept. The results of questionnaires exploring the importance of e-participation in urban development are presented. The paper also discusses changes in the availability of information and communication technologies (ICT) in Poland. The secondary goal was to present the geo-questionnaire and Public Participation GIS (PPGIS) as modern research tools. Internet tools based on geoinformation systems have considerable potential for mobilizing social participation in spatial planning (Public Participation GIS). The present study postulates the need for modern social participation methods in shaping urban space and promoting the sustainable development of cities. The study highlights the main challenges in the research process. The cooperation between the authorities and the citizens contributes to the development of a civil society, informed decision-making, social involvement in public life, and more effective governance at the local, regional, and national level. Measures that foster cooperation between the authorities and local communities, the use of information and communication technologies (ICT), and growing social awareness and social participation in managing development are the components of a modern smart city and the building blocks of an e-society. The study also revealed positive changes in access to ICT and their contribution to bridging the digital divide in Poland. Higher levels of social awareness regarding participation and e-participation promote the growth of smart cities.

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