Participatory Design of Use Cases for an IoT Open Platform to Support Smart Urban Development

2021 ◽  
pp. 469-489
Author(s):  
Alice Schweigkofler ◽  
Katrien Romagnoli ◽  
Gabriel Sanz Salas ◽  
Dieter Steiner ◽  
Michael Riedl ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Water Consumption ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Participatory Design ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Use Cases ◽  
Use Case ◽  
Social Impact Assessment ◽  
Open Platform ◽  
The City

The chapter describes the approach for the South Tyrolean city of Meran in the creation of use cases and the implementation of an urban agenda (roadmap) for the development of the city from a smart city perspective, with the involvement of citizens, experts, and local administrators. A list of key services, based on a technical and economic pre-feasibility study and social impact assessment, has been developed and will be able to be provided through a digital platform. In particular, the example of the concrete development of a use case about public lighting is presented in detail: starting from the identification of the use case to the execution of the installation of 100 intelligent streetlights and 5 test-sites for the monitoring of water consumption up to the visualization of the collected data.

scholarly journals Imagining the smart city through smart grids? Urban energy futures between technological experimentation and the imagined low-carbon city

Urban Studies ◽  
2021 ◽  
pp. 004209802110059
Author(s):  
Leslie Quitzow ◽  
Friederike Rohde
Keyword(s):  
Smart Grid ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Grids ◽  
Urban Policy ◽  
Radical Change ◽  
Low Carbon ◽  
Energy Futures ◽  
Urban Energy ◽  
The City

Current imaginaries of urban smart grid technologies are painting attractive pictures of the kinds of energy futures that are desirable and attainable in cities. Making claims about the future city, the socio-technical imaginaries related to smart grid developments unfold the power to guide urban energy policymaking and implementation practices. This paper analyses how urban smart grid futures are being imagined and co-produced in the city of Berlin, Germany. It explores these imaginaries to show how the politics of Berlin’s urban energy transition are being driven by techno-optimistic visions of the city’s digital modernisation and its ambitions to become a ‘smart city’. The analysis is based on a discourse analysis of relevant urban policy and other documents, as well as interviews with key stakeholders from Berlin’s energy, ICT and urban development sectors, including key experts from three urban laboratories for smart grid development and implementation in the city. It identifies three dominant imaginaries that depict urban smart grid technologies as (a) environmental solution, (b) economic imperative and (c) exciting experimental challenge. The paper concludes that dominant imaginaries of smart grid technologies in the city are grounded in a techno-optimistic approach to urban development that are foreclosing more subtle alternatives or perhaps more radical change towards low-carbon energy systems.

scholarly journals Digital modernizationof the city: experience of the «Smart City» projects in Germany

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (5) ◽  
pp. 206-215
Author(s):  
V. V. Asaul ◽  
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E. I. Rybnov ◽  
S. P. Kuralov ◽  
◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Smart City ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Life Quality ◽  
Intelligent Network ◽  
Digital Services ◽  
Network Infrastructures ◽  
Main Message ◽  
The City

The article examines the experience of creating digital urban modernization projects in Germany. The «Smart City» and «Smart Region» terms have largely polemical character, which is reflected in the different directions of urban development. The practice of creating an intelligent network of all areas of life and business in municipalities is considered. The main message of the study is that network infrastructures should be created using new technologies for addressing the city problems, digital services should be adapted to the needs of citizens and improve their life quality.

Virtual and Augmented Reality for the Visualization of Summarized Information in Smart Cities

2020 ◽  
pp. 299-325
Author(s):  
Sergio Casas ◽  
Jesús Gimeno ◽  
Pablo Casanova-Salas ◽  
José V. Riera ◽  
Cristina Portalés
Keyword(s):  
Augmented Reality ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Use Case ◽  
Mapping Procedure ◽  
Technical Details ◽  
Virtual And Augmented Reality ◽  
City System ◽  
3D Methods ◽  
The City

In this chapter, authors deal with the problem of visualizing summarized information in a complex system like a smart city. They introduce the topic of smart city in the context of the information revolution that is taking place in the world. Next, they review how this information can be visualized, highlighting immersive 3D methods such as Virtual Reality (VR) and Augmented Reality (AR), which are particularly suitable for these applications, since 2D information does not usually induce a focused and sustained attention. The chapter describes and shows a use case in which VR and Spatial AR (SAR) are used in a smart city system to visualize summarized information about the state and management of the city. The SAR system relies on a multi-projector mapping procedure, and therefore authors also explain the technical details that the calibration and implementation of this type of AR application requires.

scholarly journals Social Impact Assessment in La Oroya, Peru Applying the Grey Clustering Method

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 4772-4775
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Social Impact ◽  
Social Conflict ◽  
Social Impact Assessment ◽  
Correct Decision ◽  
Clustering Method ◽  
Subjective Evaluations ◽  
The Social ◽  
Grey Clustering ◽  
The City

The social conflict presented in the city of La Oroya, of a national government issue type, is considered by the Ombudsman's Office as a latent social conflict during the month of April 2019; therefore, analyses, agreements, meetings and dialogue tables are presented, which allow subjective evaluations of the problematic reality, complicating the correct decision making. For which, the application of the Grey Clustering method is proposed to quantify the social impact presented in the city of La Oroya; the surveys were conducted on Sunday, June 2, 2019, containing 08 questions (same number of criteria to evaluate) that were answered by 20 settlers, such answers were evaluated with the Grey Clustering method obtaining as a result that the social impact in the city of La Oroya is of normal level.

Humane Smart Cities

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eduardo M. Costa ◽  
Álvaro D. Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
Public Transport ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Direct Connection ◽  
Field Of Study ◽  
City Hall ◽  
Close Interaction ◽  
Main Driver ◽  
The City

Humane smart cities is a new field of study that addresses what has to be done in cities to make them more livable and more in tune with their citizen’s wishes and needs. The concept is different from the existing smart city concept. The latter focuses on technology as the main driver of change. Humane smart cities use all the power of technology but only in direct connection with citizens’ needs. Boroughs should contain options for living, working, and playing in the same region. Transport should focus on walking, biking, and public transport rather than cars. Cocreation and close interaction between citizens and City Hall should become the norm. In short, the chapter examines how we can keep the good things we like in the city and avoid the bad ones that were brought about by poor planning and wrong models of urban development.

scholarly journals The Application of Big Data Technology in Smart City

2021 ◽  
Vol 251 ◽  
pp. 01053
Author(s):  
Fang Liu ◽  
Jianyuan Gao
Keyword(s):  
Social Media ◽  
Big Data ◽  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Mobile Internet ◽  
Application Fields ◽  
The City ◽  
Big Data Technology

With the wide application of mobile Internet, Internet of Things and social media, the era of big data has come. “Smart city” is the trend of urban development and the integration of urbanization and informatization. Although it is still in the pilot stage, it has broad prospects. This paper discusses the application fields and implementation methods of big data technology in “Smart city”, and puts forward suggestions for the construction of smart city, which is helpful to improve the wisdom level of the city.

scholarly journals SMART CITY DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY PROFILE: USE CASE MODELING BASED ON SIMPLICIAL COMPLEXES

2020 ◽  
Vol VI-4/W2-2020 ◽  
pp. 25-32
Author(s):  
Y. Berrou ◽  
E. Soulier ◽  
P. Calvez ◽  
B. Birregah ◽  
P. Vidal ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Development Strategy ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Simplicial Complexes ◽  
Use Cases ◽  
Use Case ◽  
City Development ◽  
Case Definitions ◽  
Strategic Development ◽  
Architecture Model

Abstract. According to three workshops organized as part of a study on public service delegation of data, use case definitions appeared to be a common issue for cities. To facilitate this step in city projects, one possibility is to define their profiles precisely and to compare these to their development strategies to highlight whether they are aligned, and eventually, to adjust the activities accordingly. In this context, a smart city profile model was developed based on the bibliometric analysis of smart cities in the work of (Mora and Deakin, 2019). Thereafter, a smart city model was developed based on the Smart Grid Architecture Model to aid in implementing the use cases, as presented in the work of (Gottschalk et al., 2017) and the IEC 62559-2 standard. Finally, four smart city profiles were identified and a profile characterization method was proposed using simplicial complexes. The results of the analysis of a smart city profile using this method enabled an in-depth understanding of the profile, which can aid cities in identifying new use cases to implement to be in line with their strategic development.

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