The Embedded Intelligence of Smart Cities

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 62-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Deakin ◽  
Alasdair Reid
Keyword(s):  
Adverse Effect ◽  
Digital Divide ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Critical Insight ◽  
The City ◽  
Embedded Intelligence

This paper reviews Mitchell's thesis on the transition from the city of bits to e-topia. The review finds it wanting and suggests the problems encountered with the thesis rest with the lack of critical insight e-topia offers into the embedded intelligence of smart cities. It also suggests the difficulties, which the thesis experiences in accounting for the embedded intelligence of smart cities raise serious questions about whether the e-topia demonstrators that digitally-inclusive regeneration platforms stand on are progressive. In particular, whether the demonstrators these platforms stand on are progressive in embedding the intelligence that cities need for them to be smart in not only bridging the digital divide in urban life, but also overcoming any adverse effect, which the inequalities and degradation of such exclusion have on the sense of citizenship and community they in turn construct.

The Embedded Intelligence of Smart Cities

2019 ◽  
pp. 78-91
Author(s):  
Mark Deakin ◽  
Alasdair Reid
Keyword(s):  
Adverse Effect ◽  
Digital Divide ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Critical Insight ◽  
The City ◽  
Embedded Intelligence

This paper reviews Mitchell's thesis on the transition from the city of bits to e-topia. The review finds it wanting and suggests the problems encountered with the thesis rest with the lack of critical insight e-topia offers into the embedded intelligence of smart cities. It also suggests the difficulties, which the thesis experiences in accounting for the embedded intelligence of smart cities raise serious questions about whether the e-topia demonstrators that digitally-inclusive regeneration platforms stand on are progressive. In particular, whether the demonstrators these platforms stand on are progressive in embedding the intelligence that cities need for them to be smart in not only bridging the digital divide in urban life, but also overcoming any adverse effect, which the inequalities and degradation of such exclusion have on the sense of citizenship and community they in turn construct.

The Embedded Intelligence of Smart Cities

2018 ◽  
pp. 509-522
Author(s):  
Mark Deakin ◽  
Alasdair Reid
Keyword(s):  
Adverse Effect ◽  
Digital Divide ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Critical Insight ◽  
The City ◽  
Embedded Intelligence

This paper reviews Mitchell's thesis on the transition from the city of bits to e-topia. The review finds it wanting and suggests the problems encountered with the thesis rest with the lack of critical insight e-topia offers into the embedded intelligence of smart cities. It also suggests the difficulties, which the thesis experiences in accounting for the embedded intelligence of smart cities raise serious questions about whether the e-topia demonstrators that digitally-inclusive regeneration platforms stand on are progressive. In particular, whether the demonstrators these platforms stand on are progressive in embedding the intelligence that cities need for them to be smart in not only bridging the digital divide in urban life, but also overcoming any adverse effect, which the inequalities and degradation of such exclusion have on the sense of citizenship and community they in turn construct.

scholarly journals Where’s the database in digital ethnography? Exploring database ethnography for open data research

2019 ◽  
Vol 20 (5) ◽  
pp. 598-616 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryan Burns ◽  
Grace Wark
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Open Data ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Data Types ◽  
Digital Ethnography ◽  
Fundamental Dimension ◽  
Recent Trends ◽  
Technical Specifications ◽  
The City

Contemporary cities are witnessing momentous shifts in how institutions and individuals produce and circulate data. Despite recent trends claiming that anyone can create and use data, cities remain marked by persistently uneven access and usage of digital technologies. This is the case as well within the emergent phenomenon of the ‘smart city,’ where open data are a key strategy for achieving ‘smartness,’ and increasingly constitute a fundamental dimension of urban life, governance, economic activity, and epistemology. The digital ethnography has extended traditional ethnographic research practices into such digital realms, yet its applicability within open data and smart cities is unclear. The method has tended to overlook the important roles of particular digital artifacts such as the database in structuring and producing knowledge. In this paper, we develop the database ethnography as a rich methodological resource for open data research. This approach centers the database as a key site for the production and materialization of social meaning. The database ethnography draws attention to the ways digital choices and practices—around database design, schema, data models, and so on—leave traces through time. From these traces, we may infer lessons about how phenomena come to be encoded as data and acted upon in urban contexts. Open databases are, in other words, key ways in which knowledges about the smart city are framed, delimited, and represented. More specifically, we argue that open databases limit data types, categorize and classify data to align with technical specifications, reflect the database designer’s episteme, and (re)produce conceptions of the world. We substantiate these claims through a database ethnography of the open data portal for the city of Calgary, in Western Canada.

scholarly journals Smart city components and review of smart city applications in the city of Konya

2021 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 497-513
Author(s):  
Nazmiye Nur Şenyıl ◽  
Süheyla Büyükşahin
Keyword(s):  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
English Summary ◽  
Ease Of Use ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
City Formation ◽  
Technological Developments ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
The City

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.

The Digital City

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Germaine Halegoua
Keyword(s):  
Urban Communities ◽  
Digital Media ◽  
Urban Space ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Digital City ◽  
Web Based ◽  
Locative Media ◽  
Creative Placemaking ◽  
The City

The Digital City focuses on the interface of people, urban place, and the role that digital media play in placemaking endeavors. Critics have understood digital media as forces that alienate and disembed users from space and place. This book argues that the exact opposite processes are observable: many different actors are consciously and habitually using digital technologies to re-embed themselves within urban space. Five case studies from cities around the world illustrate the concept of “re-placeing” by showing how different populations employ urban broadband networks, social and locative media platforms, digital navigation technologies, smart cities, and creative placemaking initiatives to reproduce abstract urban spaces as inhabited places with deep meanings and emotional attachments. Through clear and accessible language and timely narratives of everyday urban life, the author argues that a sense of place is integral to understanding contemporary relationships with digital media while highlighting our own awareness of the places where we find ourselves and where our technologies find and place us. Through ethnographic and discourse analysis of everyday digital media practices and technologies, this book expands practical and theoretical understandings of the ways urban planners envision and plan connected cities, the role of urban communities in shaping and interpreting digital architectures, and the tales of the city produced through mobile and web-based platforms. Digital connectivity is reshaping the city and the ways we navigate through it and belong within it. How this happens and the types of places we produce within these networked environments are what this book addresses.

scholarly journals AN OVERVIEW OF THE USE OF BIOMETRIC TECHNIQUES IN SMART CITIES

2021 ◽  
Vol XLIV-2/W1-2021 ◽  
pp. 41-45
Author(s):  
E. Farazdaghi ◽  
M. Eslahi ◽  
R. El Meouche
Keyword(s):  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Gait Recognition ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
The Past ◽  
Smart Healthcare ◽  
Human Desire ◽  
Gender Detection ◽  
The City

Abstract. The human desire to live in an urban area increases every day. However, citizens’ expectation of urban life is very different compared to the past. It is, thus, essential to satisfy their requirements and ensure their safety within their cities. As a result, there is a huge trend in the implementation of smart cities around the world. A smart city is a solution to improve the quality of life of the citizens, and governing the city in an efficient and systematic. Besides, significant advances have been raised in biometrics technologies, which have made many aspects of urban life easier, more efficient, and more secure. Accordingly, to be compliant with the demands of a smart city in the future, biometrics-based technologies will certainly play a significant role from now on. Thus, it is necessary to list the different biometrics methods that could be used in smart cities and to review the variety of applications for each method. In this article, we have listed the potential biometrics systems that can be employed in smart cities, such as facial recognition, age estimation, gender detection, facial expression detection and sentiment recognition, and gait recognition. We also have listed different applications imagined for each biometrics system such as their application in identification systems and security, smart healthcare, smart advertising, education, and high-risk lifestyle behaviours prevention. We believe that this work can help to better use of these methods, improve their technical quality, and also employing them in the advance and more effective ways.

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.

Perancangan Boneka Edukasi Terinspirasi oleh Pencipta Boneka Si Unyil

2018 ◽  
Vol 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Azhari Amri
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Urban Culture ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Rural Region ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Creation ◽  
The Difference ◽  
The City ◽  
Simple Materials

Film Unyil puppet comes not just part of the entertainment world that can be enjoyed by people from the side of the story, music, and dialogue. However, there is more value in it which is a manifestation of the creator that can be absorbed into the charge for the benefit of educating the children of Indonesia to the public at large. The Unyil puppet created by the father of Drs. Suyadi is one of the works that are now widely known by the whole people of Indonesia. The process of creating a puppet Unyil done with simple materials and formation of character especially adapted to the realities of the existing rural region. Through this process, this research leads to the design process is fundamentally educational puppet inspired by the creation of Si Unyil puppet. The difference is the inspiring character created in this study is on the characters that exist in urban life, especially the city of Jakarta. Thus the results of this study are the pattern of how to shape the design of products through the creation of the puppet with the approach of urban culture.

Introduction

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Avner de Shalit
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Study ◽  
The State ◽  
Urban Life ◽  
Political Rights ◽  
The City

Immigration should be discussed within the context of the city rather than the state because cities are now quite autonomous political entities and because nearly all immigrants settle in cities. Hence the meeting between locals and immigrants take place in the context of urban life rather than as citizens of the state. The book’s three questions are presented: should cities be in charge of deciding whether to allow immigrants to settle in the city? If yes, what local political rights should be granted to immigrants? And is there a model of integration which is superior to other models? The latter involved a comparative study of three such models, in Amsterdam, Berlin, and Jerusalem.

scholarly journals Selecting Freight Transportation Modes in Last-Mile Urban Distribution in Pamplona (Spain): An Option for Drone Delivery in Smart Cities

Energies ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 14 (16) ◽  
pp. 4748
Author(s):  
Adrian Serrano-Hernandez ◽  
Aitor Ballano ◽  
Javier Faulin
Keyword(s):  
Public Transportation ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Freight Transportation ◽  
City Center ◽  
Analytic Hierarchy ◽  
Freight Logistics ◽  
Transportation Modes ◽  
Last Mile ◽  
Urban Distribution ◽  
The City

Urban distribution in medium-sized cities faces a major challenge, mainly when deliveries are difficult in the city center due to: an increase of e-commerce, weak public transportation system, and the promotion of urban sustainability plans. As a result, private cars, public transportation, and freight transportation compete for the same space. This paper analyses the current state for freight logistics in the city center of Pamplona (Spain) and proposes alternative transportation routes and transportation modes in the last-mile city center distribution according to different criteria evaluated by residents. An analytic hierarchy process (AHP) was developed. A number of alternatives have been assessed considering routes and transportation modes: the shortest route criterion and avoiding some city center area policies are combined with traditional van-based, bike, and aerial (drone) distribution protocols for delivering parcels and bar/restaurant supplies. These alternatives have been evaluated within a multicriteria framework in which economic, environmental, and social objectives are considered at the same time. The point in this multicriteria framework is that the criteria/alternative AHP weights and priorities have been set according to a survey deployed in the city of Pamplona (Navarre, Spain). The survey and AHP results show the preference for the use of drone or bike distribution in city center in order to reduce social and environmental issues.

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