Architectural View of an App for Walking Through a City in a Safe Way

2021 ◽  
pp. 224-251
Author(s):  
Aldo Alexis Pérez Vizcarra ◽  
Guadalupe Paulina Anccasi Figueroa ◽  
Jaison Willian Torres Chana ◽  
Francisco José García-Peñalvo
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Application ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Risk Prevention ◽  
End User ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
General Review ◽  
Social Collaboration

This chapter offers a general review of the presence of the risks present in today's society and its impact on citizens' daily lives as well as the challenge it represents for the authorities in their desire to turn their cities into smart cities and proposes the use of Safe Paths, a mobile application focused on risk prevention based on social collaboration to identify dangerous areas and give alerts based on their users' location and the risks around to them. It also describes the architecture used by Safe Paths, the sketches used in its development, and finally shows the interface it provides to the end-user.

HEURISTIC EVALUATION FOR MOBILE APPLICATION (STUDI KASUS: APLIKASI DEPO AUTO 2000 TANJUNG API API PALEMBANG)

2017 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 563 ◽  
Author(s):  
Usman Ependi
Keyword(s):  
Real World ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Usability Testing ◽  
Heuristic Evaluation ◽  
End User ◽  
Error Prevention ◽  
The Real ◽  
User Control ◽  
Cosmetic Problem

Heuristic evaluation merupakan salah satu bentuk usability testing perangkat lunak yang dinilai oleh pengguna (evaluator). Dalam melakukan heuristic evaluation instrumen penilaian terdiri dari sepuluh (10) pernyataan dengan lima pilihan jawaban dalam skala severity ratings. Dalam penelitian ini heuristic evaluation terhadap aplikasi Depo Auto 2000 Tanjung Api-Api Palembang yang dilakukan oleh 4 evaluator.  Hasil dari heuristic evaluation dikelompokkan kedalam  masing-masing instrumen yaitu visibility of system status dengan nilai 0,75, match between system and the real world dengan nilai 0,25, user control and freedom dengan nilai 0,25, consistency and standards dengan nilai 0,75, error prevention dengan nilai 1, recognition rather than recall dengan nilai 1,25, flexibility and efficiency of use dengan nilai 0,25, Aesthetic and minimalist design dengan nilai 0,25, help users recognize, diagnose, and recover from errors dengan nilai 1 dan Help and documentation dengan nilai 0. Dari hasil heuristic evaluation yang dilakukan menunjukkan bahwa evaluator memberikan nilai 0 dan 1 aplikasi Depo Atuo 2000 Tanjung Api-Api Palembang. Hasil penilaian tersebut menunjukkan bahwa aplikasi yang buat tidak ada masalah usability dan hanya memiliki cosmetic problem sehingga aplikasi Depo Auto 2000 Tanjung Api Api Palembang  dapat dinyatakan layak untuk didistribusikan kepada pengguna akhir (end user). 

scholarly journals Blended Learning Through an Interactive Mobile Application for Teaching Autistic Kindergarten Students

2021 ◽  
pp. 132-146
Author(s):  
Mohammed Yousif
Keyword(s):  
Virtual Reality ◽  
Blended Learning ◽  
Mobile Phones ◽  
Mobile Applications ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Kindergarten Students ◽  
Interactive Learning Environment ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
The World ◽  
Therapy Sessions

The mobile applications industry has had significant growth in the last few years. Mobile phones are everywhere since we use them in every part of our daily lives for entertainment, communication and other various uses. Unfortunately, there was also a substantial increase the number of autism cases in kids around the world, which has prompted for a dire need of a therapy method that is cheap, reliable and accessible for everyone who needs it. Researchers have tried several methods, like robotics and virtual reality, to help in the therapy of autistic children. While their results were promising, these technologies are still out of reach of most users due to their high cost. Mobile phones, however, are much more accessible since everyone has one, and they have a wide array of useful gadgets that can be used in making the therapy sessions more engaging and fun such as cameras, accelerometers, speakers, microphones and others. This project aims to design and implement an interactive learning environment based on a mobile application for teaching kids with special needs. 

scholarly journals Perceptions on Smart Gas Meters in Smart Cities for Reducing the Carbon Footprint

Smart Cities ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 1173-1186
Author(s):  
William Hurst ◽  
Bedir Tekinerdogan ◽  
Ben Kotze
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Carbon Footprint ◽  
Employment Status ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Statistical Significance ◽  
End Users ◽  
Smart Meter ◽  
End User ◽  
Smart Meters ◽  
Smart Energy Systems

Carbon emission is a prominent issue, and smart urban solutions have the technological capabilities to implement change. The technologies for creating smart energy systems already exist, some of which are currently under wide deployment globally. By investing in energy efficiency solutions (such as the smart meter), research shows that the end-user is able to not only save money, but also reduce their household’s carbon footprint. Therefore, in this paper, the focus is on the end-user, and adopting a quantitative analysis of the perception of 1365 homes concerning the smart gas meter installation. The focus is on linking end-user attributes (age, education, social class and employment status) with their opinion on reducing energy, saving money, changing home behaviour and lowering carbon emissions. The results show that there is a statistical significance between certain attributes of end-users and their consideration of smart meters for making beneficial changes. In particular, the investigation demonstrates that the employment status, age and social class of the homeowner have statistical significance on the end-users’ variance; particularly when interested in reducing their bill and changing their behaviour around the home.

scholarly journals Evaluating How ‘Smart’ Brașov, Romania Can Be Virtually via a Mobile Application for Cultural Tourism

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (13) ◽  
pp. 5324 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arabela Briciu ◽  
Victor-Alexandru Briciu ◽  
Androniki Kavoura
Keyword(s):  
Real Time ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Modern Society ◽  
Cultural Tourism ◽  
User Engagement ◽  
Heritage Sites ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Intelligent Methods

Global urbanization brings the urge to identify the most intelligent methods to cope with the challenges arising in the modern society. Sustainable and smart cities are the new target for urban development; their representatives are being forced to identify and develop new strategies to increase their city’s performance and ensure that it endures over time. Information and Communication Technology (ICT) contributes to this purpose. Brașov is one of the cities in Romania for which the process of modernization started years ago, and it is currently developing as a smart city. This paper focuses on the development of the city in terms of cultural tourism solutions by presenting a case study on the use of virtual reality with a mobile application and its evaluation on cultural heritage sites. The original contribution of the paper is to describe and analyze the quality of the mobile application by using a proposed analysis grid to identify the main elements of this app. The main findings suggest that the application may bring authenticity of experience through the lens of heritage preservation for further user engagement and participation in real-time, while suggestions are made for future enhancement. Implications are discussed for a) destination managers, b) for developers to improve the general quality of the mobile application in terms of design and features and to implement changes in the near future, and c) for visitors who engage in real-time and co-create experiences.

scholarly journals Sustainable Smart Cities: A Fog Computing Framework for a Smart Urban Transport Network

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 68-80 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ioan-Mădălin Neagu
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Fog Computing ◽  
Urban Transport ◽  
Transport Network ◽  
Social Implications ◽  
End User ◽  
Funding Sources ◽  
Computing Framework

Abstract In the present paper, a fog computing framework for smart urban transport is developed. The proposed framework is adapted to the smart city concept. It uses a collaborative multitude of end-user clients to carry out a substantial amount of communication and computation. It can be adapted for specific situations of smart cities in Romania, such as: Cluj-Napoca, Timișoara, Iași or Bucharest. Economic and social implications as well as available European funding sources are presented.

scholarly journals Revisit of Password-Authenticated Key Exchange Protocol for Healthcare Support Wireless Communication

Electronics ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 733 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mijin Kim ◽  
Jongho Moon ◽  
Dongho Won ◽  
Namje Park
Keyword(s):  
Wireless Communication ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Key Exchange ◽  
Message Delivery ◽  
Authenticated Key Exchange ◽  
Key Exchange Protocol ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Resource Limitations ◽  
Bidirectional Communication ◽  
Control Message

Wireless communication is essential for the infrastructure of a healthcare system. This bidirectional communication is used for data collection and to control message delivery. Wireless communication is applied in industries as well as in our daily lives, e.g., smart cities; however, highly reliable communication may be more difficult in environments with low power consumption, many interferences, or IoT wireless network issues due to resource limitations. In order to solve these problems, we investigated the existing three-party password-authenticated key exchange (3PAKE) and developed an enhanced protocol. Currently, Lu et al. presented a 3PAKE protocol to improve the security flaws found in Farash and Attari’s protocol. This work revisits the protocol proposed by Lu et al. and demonstrates that, in addition to other security weaknesses, the protocol does not provide user anonymity which is an important issue for healthcare environment, and is not secure against insider attacks that may cause impersonation attacks. We propose a secure biometric-based efficient password-authenticated key exchange (SBAKE) protocol in order to remove the incidences of these threats, and present an analysis regarding the security and efficiency of the SBAKE protocol for practical deployment.

scholarly journals Automated Pollution Detection System using IoT and AWS Cloud

2019 ◽  
Vol 8 (11) ◽  
pp. 3955-3960
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Application ◽  
Web Application ◽  
Detection System ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Traffic Monitoring ◽  
Traffic Lights ◽  
Pollution Detection ◽  
Smart Cars ◽  
Smart Traffic ◽  
The Web

Smart cities are one of the upcoming trends in the world. These smart cities include smart traffic light system, smart cars, smart homes, smart traffic monitoring system. As environmental pollution has become the major cause of various problems like climatic changes, improper irrigation methods, depletion of the ozone layer etc. “Automated Pollution Detection System using IoT and AWS Cloud” provides an architecture for integrating IoT and Cloud Computing and an application which is used to detect air pollution by fitting in arduino devices at public places like traffic lights, industrial areas, construction areas etc., and transferring the data using GSM modem to a cloud database server AWS RDS. The cloud server is linked with the EC2 instance (Ubuntu server) in order to publish the web application using EC2. Web Application which is created using Word press and a Mobile application using Android Studio. The Web application shows the value of pollutant at a particular place along with the map facility by using GPS in the Arduino. This is also linked to a mobile application which sends a push notification service (SNS) to our mobile application

scholarly journals Smart Campus Mobile Application Toward the Development of Smart Cities

2020 ◽  
Vol 02 (01) ◽  
pp. 75-88
Author(s):  
Tanweer Alam ◽  
◽  
Yazeed Mohammed Alharbi ◽  
Firas Adel Abusallama ◽  
Ahmad Osama Hakeem ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mobile Application ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Smart Campus

scholarly journals Implementation of Smart Garbage Collection in Smart Cities

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 1425-1428
Keyword(s):  
Gas Sensor ◽  
Mobile Application ◽  
Garbage Collection ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Live Streaming ◽  
Cleaning Process ◽  
Project Implementation ◽  
Public Places

Garbage management is a big challenging with increasing population whether in a developing or developed countries. The main problem in Garbage management is that the waste bin at public places gets overflowed well in advance before the cleaning process take place. Because of this provoke several diseases amongst the surrounding people. To avoid this and enhance cleaning process, my project “implementation of smart garbage system in smart cities” will help. My project use to detect level of garbage in bin like (0, 25, 75 and 100). In Each level of garbage in bin status will update on mobile application and led will indicate in front of bin, and we can track bin location depending on the garbage level in mobile application. Bin also has a camera for live streaming it will useful for identifying suspected persons and those who are not fallowing cleaning rules. And Gas sensor for detecting poisons gases in bin

Leading Digital Transformation in Higher Education

2021 ◽  
pp. 1366-1384
Author(s):  
Christine Elizabeth Miller
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Cultural Transformation ◽  
Digital Transformation ◽  
Campus Planning ◽  
End User ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Innovative Technologies ◽  
Technology Leaders ◽  
Mission Critical

The pace of innovation continues to accelerate. Students expect campuses to keep pace with the technology they use in their daily lives, and the technology they will likely need to use when they enter the workforce as graduates. Students and their families now pay more of the costs associated with earning a degree, and they want to have a voice in campus planning and decision making. Higher education technology leaders will need to help their campuses shift from incremental adoption of disparate technologies to digital transformation. Digital transformation includes adopting innovative technologies to transform mission critical activities and optimizing related processes and data with the objective of increasing customer satisfaction and providing an excellent end user experience. To guide digital transformation, technology leaders in higher education need a toolkit to build buy-in and facilitate cultural transformation on their campuses.

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