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Renata Paola Dameri - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Smart City Implementation - Smart City Implementation
Progress in IS, 2017Co-Authors: Renata Paola DameriAbstract:In a series of essays, this book describes and analyzes the concept and theory of the recent Smart City phenomenon from a global perspective, with a focus on its implementation around the world. After defining the concept it then elaborates on the role of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) as an enabler for Smart cities, and the role of ICT in the interplay with Smart mobility. A separate chapter develops the concept of an urban Smart dashboard for stakeholders to measure performance as well as the economic and public value. It offers examples of Smart cities around the globe, and two detailed case studies on Genoa and Amsterdam exemplify the book’s theoretical and empirical findings, helping readers understand and evaluate the effectiveness and capability of new Smart City programs
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Smart City Definition, Goals and Performance
Progress in IS, 2016Co-Authors: Renata Paola DameriAbstract:During the latest ten years, several cities all over the world have been starting to develop their own Smart strategy, aiming at improving the quality of life of citizens and reducing environmental footprint. However, Smart City are a jeopardized phenomenon, and Smart cities show heterogeneous profiles. Moreover, also the scientific researches lack of a shared definition of Smart City; and Smart City and digital City are often confused each other owing the large use of ICT in both of them. In this chapter, the Smart City concept is analyzed, considering two main aspects: the strategic vision of a Smart City and its benefits. A Smart City strategic vision is of paramount importance for effectively driving the local policies in implementing Smart initiatives pursuing shared goals. Smart City benefits are often declared, but not measured; to better define Smart City performance is indispensable for realizing better outcome for citizens and other stakeholders.
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Smart Mobility in Smart City
Lecture Notes in Information Systems and Organisation, 2015Co-Authors: Clara Benevolo, Renata Paola Dameri, Beatrice D’auriaAbstract:Smart City is a recent topic, but it is spreading very fast, as it is perceived like a winning strategy to cope with some severe urban problems such as traffic, pollution, energy consumption, waste treatment. Smart City ideas are the merge of some other more ancient urban policies such as digital City, green City, knowledge City. A Smart City is therefore a complex, long-term vision of a better urban area, aiming at reducing its environmental footprint and at creating better quality of life for citizens. Mobility is one of the most difficult topic to face in metropolitan large areas. It involves both environmental and economic aspects, and needs both high technologies and virtuous people behaviours. Smart Mobility is largely permeated by ICT, used in both backward and forward applications, to support the optimization of traffic fluxes, but also to collect citizens’ opinions about liveability in cities or quality of local public transport services. The aim of this paper is to analyse the Smart Mobility initiatives like part of a larger Smart City initiative portfolio, and to investigate about the role of ICT in supporting Smart mobility actions, influencing their impact on the citizens’ quality of life and on the public value created for the City as a whole.
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Smart City and Value Creation
How to Create Public and Economic Value with High Technology in Urban Space, 2014Co-Authors: Renata Paola Dameri, Camille Rosenthal-sabrouxAbstract:During the latest five years, the label Smart City has been spreading all over the world, impacting on urban strategies in both large and small towns. To face the increasing problems of urban areas, local public government, companies, not-for-profit organizations and the citizens themselves embraced the idea of a Smarter City, using more technologies, creating better life conditions and safeguarding the environment. However, today the Smart City panorama appears very confused. No acknowledged Smart City definition exists till now and several cities defining themselves Smart completely lack of a strategic vision about their Smart future. This first chapter is the introduction of this book collecting several contributes from different academic studies all over Europe. The aim of this work is to offer a large vision about the Smart City phenomenon and to compare researches and considerations regarding how to define a Smart City, how to design a Smart strategy and how to measure if Smart actions really are able to create public value for citizens and a better quality of life in urban spaces. This chapter introduces the most important themes regarding the Smart City and further deepened in the ten chapters of the book.
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Searching for Smart City definition: a comprehensive proposal
International Journal of Computers & Technology, 2013Co-Authors: Tuba Bakici, Renata Paola Dameri, Esteve Almirall, Jonathan Douglas WarehamAbstract:During the latest years, Smart City projects have been more and more popular and widespread all over the world. The continuous increasing of City‟s population and the complexity of City management drive local governments towards the strong use of technologies to support a higher quality of urban spaces and a better offering of public services. The fascination of Smart cities, able to link high technology, green environment and well-being for citizens, interests all the municipalities, independently on their dimensions, geographical area or culture. However, the concept of Smart City is far from to be unambiguous. Several experiences all over the world show that cities define themselves as Smart, but the meaning attributed to this word is different each time. Smart City concept has been growing from empirical experience, therefore a systemic theoretical study about this phenomenon still lacks. In this paper, the author aims to propose a comprehensive and verified definition of Smart City, based on both a deep literature investigation about Smart City studies and a large survey of Smart City projects in the international panorama. The goal of this work is not only to provide a clear framework about this interesting and current topic, but also to support local governments and public administrations in effective Smart City implementation, able to create public value and well being for citizens and environmental sustainability in the urban space.
Tuba Bakici - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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A Smart City Initiative: the Case of Barcelona
Journal of the Knowledge Economy, 2013Co-Authors: Tuba Bakici, Esteve AlmirallAbstract:Information and communication technology is changing the way in which cities organise policymaking and urban growth. Smart Cities base their strategy on the use of information and communication technologies in several fields such as economy, environment, mobility and governance to transform the City infrastructure and services. This paper draws on the City of Barcelona and intends to analyse its transformation from a traditional agglomeration to a twenty-first century metropolis. The case of Barcelona is of special interest due to its apparent desire, reflected by its current policies regarding urban planning, to be considered as a leading metropolis in Europe. Hence, an assessment of the Smart City initiative will cast light on the current status of Barcelona’s urban policy and its urban policy of Barcelona and its future directions. This article analyses Barcelona’s transformation in the areas of Smart City management; drivers, bottlenecks, conditions and assets. First, it presents the existing literature on Barcelona’s Smart City initiative. Then, the case study analysis is presented with the Barcelona Smart City model. After describing this model, we further explore the main components of the Smart City strategy of Barcelona in terms of Smart districts, living labs, initiatives, e-Services, infrastructures and Open Data. This paper also reveals certain benefits and challenges related to this initiative and its future directions. The results of the case study analysis indicate that Barcelona has been effectively implementing the Smart City strategy with an aim to be a Smart City model for the world.
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Searching for Smart City definition: a comprehensive proposal
International Journal of Computers & Technology, 2013Co-Authors: Tuba Bakici, Renata Paola Dameri, Esteve Almirall, Jonathan Douglas WarehamAbstract:During the latest years, Smart City projects have been more and more popular and widespread all over the world. The continuous increasing of City‟s population and the complexity of City management drive local governments towards the strong use of technologies to support a higher quality of urban spaces and a better offering of public services. The fascination of Smart cities, able to link high technology, green environment and well-being for citizens, interests all the municipalities, independently on their dimensions, geographical area or culture. However, the concept of Smart City is far from to be unambiguous. Several experiences all over the world show that cities define themselves as Smart, but the meaning attributed to this word is different each time. Smart City concept has been growing from empirical experience, therefore a systemic theoretical study about this phenomenon still lacks. In this paper, the author aims to propose a comprehensive and verified definition of Smart City, based on both a deep literature investigation about Smart City studies and a large survey of Smart City projects in the international panorama. The goal of this work is not only to provide a clear framework about this interesting and current topic, but also to support local governments and public administrations in effective Smart City implementation, able to create public value and well being for citizens and environmental sustainability in the urban space.
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A Smart City Initiative: The Case of Barcelona
Journal of the Knowledge Economy, 2013Co-Authors: Tuba Bakici, Esteve AlmirallAbstract:Information and communication technology is changing the way in which cities organise policymaking and urban growth. Smart Cities base their strategy on the use of information and communication technologies in several fields such as economy, environment, mobility and governance to transform the City infrastructure and services. This paper draws on the City of Barcelona and intends to analyse its transformation from a traditional agglomeration to a twenty-first century metropolis. The case of Barcelona is of special interest due to its apparent desire, reflected by its current policies regarding urban planning, to be considered as a leading metropolis in Europe. Hence, an assessment of the Smart City initiative will cast light on the current status of Barcelona's urban policy and its urban policy of Barcelona and its future directions. This article analyses Barcelona's transformation in the areas of Smart City management; drivers, bottlenecks, conditions and assets. First, it presents the existing literature on Barcelona's Smart City initiative. Then, the case study analysis is presented with the Barcelona Smart City model. After describing this model, we further explore the main components of the Smart City strategy of Barcelona in terms of Smart districts, living labs, initiatives, e-Services, infrastructures and Open Data. This paper also reveals certain benefits and challenges related to this initiative and its future directions. The results of the case study analysis indicate that Barcelona has been effectively implementing the Smart City strategy with an aim to be a Smart City model for the world. © 2012 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.
Sabah Mohammed - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Smart City and IoT
Future Generation Computer Systems, 2017Co-Authors: Tai-hoon Kim, Carlos Ramos, Sabah MohammedAbstract:The new Internet of Things (IoT) applications are enabling Smart City initiatives worldwide. It provides the ability to remotely monitor, manage and control devices, and to create new insights and actionable information from massive streams of real-time data. The main features of a Smart City include a high degree of information technology integration and a comprehensive application of information resources. The essential components of urban development for a Smart City should include Smart technology, Smart industry, Smart services, Smart management and Smart life. The Internet of Things is about installing sensors (RFID, IR, GPS, laser scanners, etc.) for everything, and connecting them to the internet through specific protocols for information exchange and communications, in order to achieve intelligent recognition, location, tracking, monitoring and management. With the technical support from IoT, Smart City need to have three features of being instrumented, interconnected and intelligent. Only then a Smart City can be formed by integrating all these intelligent features at its advanced stage of IOT development. The explosive growth of Smart City and Internet of Things applications creates many scientific and engineering challenges that call for ingenious research efforts from both academia and industry, especially for the development of efficient, scalable, and reliable Smart City based on IoT. New protocols, architectures, and services are in dire needs to respond for these challenges. The goal of the special issue is to bring together scholars, professors, researchers, engineers and administrators resorting to the state-of-the-art technologies and ideas to significantly improve the field of Smart City based on IoT.
Huawei Huang - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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qoe driven big data architecture for Smart City
IEEE Communications Magazine, 2018Co-Authors: Xiaoming He, Kun Wang, Huawei HuangAbstract:In the era of big data, the applications/services of the Smart City are expected to offer end users better QoE than in a conventional Smart City. Nevertheless, various types of sensors will produce an increasing volume of big data along with the implementation of a Smart City, where we face redundant and diverse data. Therefore, providing satisfactory QoE will become the major challenge in the big-data-based Smart City. In this article, to enhance the QoE, we propose a novel big data architecture consisting of three planes: the data storage plane, the data processing plane, and the data application plane. The data storage plane stores a wide variety of data collected by sensors and originating from different data sources. Then the data processing plane filters, analyzes, and processes the ocean of data to make decisions autonomously for extracting high-quality information. Finally, the application plane initiates the execution of the events corresponding to the decisions delivered from the data processing plane. Under this architecture, we particularly use machine learning techniques, trying to acquire accurate data and deliver precise information to end users. Simulation results indicate that our proposals could achieve high QoE performance for the Smart City.
Esteve Almirall - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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A Smart City Initiative: the Case of Barcelona
Journal of the Knowledge Economy, 2013Co-Authors: Tuba Bakici, Esteve AlmirallAbstract:Information and communication technology is changing the way in which cities organise policymaking and urban growth. Smart Cities base their strategy on the use of information and communication technologies in several fields such as economy, environment, mobility and governance to transform the City infrastructure and services. This paper draws on the City of Barcelona and intends to analyse its transformation from a traditional agglomeration to a twenty-first century metropolis. The case of Barcelona is of special interest due to its apparent desire, reflected by its current policies regarding urban planning, to be considered as a leading metropolis in Europe. Hence, an assessment of the Smart City initiative will cast light on the current status of Barcelona’s urban policy and its urban policy of Barcelona and its future directions. This article analyses Barcelona’s transformation in the areas of Smart City management; drivers, bottlenecks, conditions and assets. First, it presents the existing literature on Barcelona’s Smart City initiative. Then, the case study analysis is presented with the Barcelona Smart City model. After describing this model, we further explore the main components of the Smart City strategy of Barcelona in terms of Smart districts, living labs, initiatives, e-Services, infrastructures and Open Data. This paper also reveals certain benefits and challenges related to this initiative and its future directions. The results of the case study analysis indicate that Barcelona has been effectively implementing the Smart City strategy with an aim to be a Smart City model for the world.
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Searching for Smart City definition: a comprehensive proposal
International Journal of Computers & Technology, 2013Co-Authors: Tuba Bakici, Renata Paola Dameri, Esteve Almirall, Jonathan Douglas WarehamAbstract:During the latest years, Smart City projects have been more and more popular and widespread all over the world. The continuous increasing of City‟s population and the complexity of City management drive local governments towards the strong use of technologies to support a higher quality of urban spaces and a better offering of public services. The fascination of Smart cities, able to link high technology, green environment and well-being for citizens, interests all the municipalities, independently on their dimensions, geographical area or culture. However, the concept of Smart City is far from to be unambiguous. Several experiences all over the world show that cities define themselves as Smart, but the meaning attributed to this word is different each time. Smart City concept has been growing from empirical experience, therefore a systemic theoretical study about this phenomenon still lacks. In this paper, the author aims to propose a comprehensive and verified definition of Smart City, based on both a deep literature investigation about Smart City studies and a large survey of Smart City projects in the international panorama. The goal of this work is not only to provide a clear framework about this interesting and current topic, but also to support local governments and public administrations in effective Smart City implementation, able to create public value and well being for citizens and environmental sustainability in the urban space.
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A Smart City Initiative: The Case of Barcelona
Journal of the Knowledge Economy, 2013Co-Authors: Tuba Bakici, Esteve AlmirallAbstract:Information and communication technology is changing the way in which cities organise policymaking and urban growth. Smart Cities base their strategy on the use of information and communication technologies in several fields such as economy, environment, mobility and governance to transform the City infrastructure and services. This paper draws on the City of Barcelona and intends to analyse its transformation from a traditional agglomeration to a twenty-first century metropolis. The case of Barcelona is of special interest due to its apparent desire, reflected by its current policies regarding urban planning, to be considered as a leading metropolis in Europe. Hence, an assessment of the Smart City initiative will cast light on the current status of Barcelona's urban policy and its urban policy of Barcelona and its future directions. This article analyses Barcelona's transformation in the areas of Smart City management; drivers, bottlenecks, conditions and assets. First, it presents the existing literature on Barcelona's Smart City initiative. Then, the case study analysis is presented with the Barcelona Smart City model. After describing this model, we further explore the main components of the Smart City strategy of Barcelona in terms of Smart districts, living labs, initiatives, e-Services, infrastructures and Open Data. This paper also reveals certain benefits and challenges related to this initiative and its future directions. The results of the case study analysis indicate that Barcelona has been effectively implementing the Smart City strategy with an aim to be a Smart City model for the world. © 2012 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC.
