Results 221 to 230 of about 60,268 (263)
Some of the next articles are maybe not open access.
Smart City: The smart sewerage
37th Annual IEEE Conference on Local Computer Networks -- Workshops, 2012This paper describes a sensor-based system for monitoring of sewer flooding. A global trend in Smart Cities is the installation of sensors for surveillance of the city infrastructure. The presented system is mounted in a number of strategic sewers for initial evaluation.
Daniel Granlund, Robert Brännström
openaire +1 more source
Smart Lighting Solutions for Smart Cities
2013 27th International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications Workshops, 2013Smart cities play an increasingly important role for the sustainable economic development of a determined area. Smart cities are considered a key element for generating wealth, knowledge and diversity, both economically and socially. A Smart City is the engine to reach the sustainability of its infrastructure and facilitate the sustainable development ...
Miguel Castro 0003 +2 more
openaire +1 more source
Introduction to Smart Cities and Smart City Government Minitrack
2015 48th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2015This minitrack focuses on the interactions between citizens, government, and technology to promote, facilitate, and create smart cities. Smart City is a fuzzy concept, not well defined in theoretical researches nor in empirical projects.
Elsa Negre +2 more
openaire +1 more source
Proceedings of the 11th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Shaping Experiences, Shaping Society, 2020
Smart city systems and applications are shaping how we experience urban life. While some of these changes are obvious, many remain unseen. These technologies are intended to make our lives more convenient, and can be measured in quantitative terms like efficiency and cost-savings, but how do we gain a fuller picture of their impacts?
Sayún, Michel Nader +3 more
openaire +2 more sources
Smart city systems and applications are shaping how we experience urban life. While some of these changes are obvious, many remain unseen. These technologies are intended to make our lives more convenient, and can be measured in quantitative terms like efficiency and cost-savings, but how do we gain a fuller picture of their impacts?
Sayún, Michel Nader +3 more
openaire +2 more sources
Smart Cities as “EnvironMental” Cities
2013Starting from the references to Smart Cities and Living Labs included in the Strategic Research Framework of the European Joint Programming Initiative "Urban Europe", the paper tries to outline the basic notions of a more limited reference framework, specifically aimed at fostering an approach to Smart City through an Urban/Territorial Living Lab ...
openaire +1 more source
2014
Very often the concept of smart city is strongly related to the widespread of mobile applications, completely forgetting the essence of a city with its connected problems. The real challenge in future years will be the huge population migration from rural areas to cities.
Beniamino Murgante, Giuseppe Borruso
openaire +2 more sources
Very often the concept of smart city is strongly related to the widespread of mobile applications, completely forgetting the essence of a city with its connected problems. The real challenge in future years will be the huge population migration from rural areas to cities.
Beniamino Murgante, Giuseppe Borruso
openaire +2 more sources
Smart cities are healthy cities, healthy cities are smart
2022When we look at the evolution of cities we can see a major turning point occurring as we speak. Cities have grown extremely vulnerable in many ways in the social economic era of consumption based capitalism. It is not just the issue of maintaining peace and prosperity in a population that is torn apart by economic differences.
openaire +1 more source
Fully smart cities: Analysis of the city to Smart City transformation process
2016 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2), 2016Ever since the birth of the Smart City paradigm, a wide variety of initiatives have sprung up involving this phenomenon: best practices, projects, pilot projects, transformation plans, models, standards, indicators, measuring systems, etc. The question to ask, applicable to any government official, city planner or researcher, is whether this effect is ...
Félix Herrera Priano +1 more
openaire +1 more source
International Journal of Digital Literacy and Digital Competence, 2012
The cities, despite the huge size reached by some and the problems by which they are sometimes afflicted, continue to attract people and pose epochal sustainability challenges to which policy makers and planners have decided to respond with a top-down functionalist approach aiming at transforming the cities in “smart cities”.
Carlo Giovannella, Vincenzo Baraniello
openaire +1 more source
The cities, despite the huge size reached by some and the problems by which they are sometimes afflicted, continue to attract people and pose epochal sustainability challenges to which policy makers and planners have decided to respond with a top-down functionalist approach aiming at transforming the cities in “smart cities”.
Carlo Giovannella, Vincenzo Baraniello
openaire +1 more source
Conceptualizing “Smart Cities”
Informatik-Spektrum, 2016“Smart City” has become a buzzword. Much is being written about smart cities as we speak, most of it promotional and uncritical. The goal of this article is not to criticize smart cities, nor is it to promote them. Rather, we would like to make a contribution to the conceptualization of smart cities and, by doing so, help the concept to become ...
Matthias Finger, Mohamad Razaghi
openaire +1 more source