Smart cities offer services to their inhabitants which make everyday life easier beyond providing a feedback channel to the city administration. For instance, a live timetable service for public transportation or real-time traffic jam notification can increase the efficiency of travel planning substantially. Traditionally, the implementation of these smart city services require the deployment of some costly sensing and tracking infrastructure. As an alternative, the crowd of inhabitants can be involved in data collection via their mobile devices. This emerging paradigm is called mobile crowd-sensing or participatory sensing. In this paper, we present our generic framework built upon XMPP (Extensible Messaging and Presence Protocol) for mobile participatory sensing based smart city applications. After giving a short description of this framework we show three use-case smart city application scenarios, namely a live transit feed service, a soccer intelligence agency service and a smart campus application, which are currently under development on top of our framework.
In the last few years semantic aspects earned more and more interest and have ever more applications. Ontologies and semantic frameworks are started applied more fields than we could imagine. Nowadays, when Future Internet and Internet of Things (IoT) research became an integral part of the rise of computing, we need to react to new challenges utilizing these aspects. Our University is not an exception, it is a perfect place to study and apply these possibilities. Furthermore, a new computing concept has appeared which had a vision where computing is made to appear everywhere and anywhere. These technological advancements made possible to collect and process a wide range of data. Several ideas are applied at our University Campus where we established a framework which could provide value-added services for various people living or working on the Campus.The main goals of our project -inside the Future Internet field -are twofold. First, establishing an intelligent platform as an extensible architecture which is used to drive the central part (as we call Smart Campus Central Intelligence -SCCI) through an extensible and open interface with data. That data is used not only for data analysis but recommendations as well. Second, the interface should be open for the crowd to made available crowdsourcing inside the system for creating new services. This paper highlights our applied usage scenarios and our vision where we could continue.
Here, we outline the design, implementation, testing and evaluation phases of our bi-directional semantic and syntactic interoperability framework interconnecting traditional healthcare, industrial telemedicine and IoT wearable eHealth-domains. Specifically, our study demonstrates system interoperability among a hospital information system, an industrial telemedicine instrument and an eHealth smart wearable consumer electronic product through the Open Telemedicine Interoperability Hub (OTI-Hub) embedded in a hybrid Cloud architecture. The novelty of this study is the handling of Internet-ofThings smart healthcare devices and traditional healthcare devices through the same Cloud-based solution. This healthcare interoperability solution, service architecture and corresponding software engineering technique bridges technology barriers among the above-mentioned healthcare segments. Standard interoperability solutions exist and have already been described in related literature, but they are not applicable to the IoT healthcare devices and vice versa. Our study goes beyond isolated, individual interoperability solutions and seeks to bridge all major healthcare architecture frameworks including classical, telemedicine and eHealth IoT applications and appliances. This study presents the results of a two-year OTI-Hub Research Program. These experiments are manifestations of a trilateral cooperation among the
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