An Approach to Provide Shared Architectural Principles for Interoperable Smart Cities

Bhatt, Vatsal; Brutti, Arianna; Burns, Martin; Frascella, Angelo

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-62398-6_29

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“…From the 28 relevant papers, six present architecture principles. They focus on aspects such as interoperability through standardized interfaces [5] or open specifications [8], defining technical requirements to establish a SC projects [13], and to break down silo barriers between SC indicatives [9]. Furthermore, Zarko et al [45] presents the general concept of interoperability through a middleware solution and Wirtz et al [44] describe basic technological services needed for SCs.…”

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“…discussed by Ferguson et al [19]. Bhatt et al [5] describe in their work a concept called pivotal points of interoperability, which provides common architecture principles for SC systems, so only at specific common points standardized interfaces need to be used to make these systems interoperable. However, in both cases, platforms (and services) have to use the same API standards (at least in the pivotal points) to gain access or exchange data with the other data platforms [23].…”

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“…e.g. [5]). Hence, standards alone will not enable more interoperability between SC data platforms in the coming years [28], as no consolidation of existing (pseudo) standards is expected [39].…”

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Towards Interoperability of Smart City Data Platforms

Buchinger¹,

Kuhn²,

Kalogeropoulos³

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Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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We present a comprehensive analysis of the literature on interoperability of smart city data platforms in an attempt to conceptualize interoperability approaches. To this end, we propose a taxonomy of said approaches based on four dimensions with three characteristics each. The taxonomy can be used to classify interoperability approaches. We discuss implications for theory and practice and conclude with a first assessment of individual approaches towards their prospect of success.

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Towards Interoperability of Smart City Data Platforms

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Kuhn²,

Kalogeropoulos³

et al. 2021

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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“…A concrete example of an organization that adopted such a vision and solution is the City Protocol Society. Based on its own functional platform and the Open & Agile Smart Cities initiative (OASC), it develops a network of more than 50 smart cities using FIWARE architectures (Bhatt et al, 2017). Finally, a special subject to be highlighted in this subchapter is the Artificial Intelligence-AI-(Nilsson, 2014, Pan, 2016), which evolves based on a special kind of software and does special actions like perceiving, interpreting, communicating, learning, making decisions, and triggering actuations in the real world.…”

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Questioning if Macro-Systemic Top-Down Approaches Should Be Used to Develop Smart Cities of the Future

Vasile¹,

Mocan²

2019

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Cities differ greatly from one to another, even if they serve the same essential purposes. Moreover, they should collaborate at all levels for producing synergistic effects, therefore, their major smart solutions should be standardized or at least compatible, whilst adapted to the local contexts. Cities are systems of systems and contain a large variety of components, each of them presenting different characteristics. Given the vast range of technological choices and the unforgiving overall pressure, governors struggle to implement best specific smart solutions for their cities, by usually adopting bottom-up methods, thus, endangering future possible compatibilities with other local or international systems. This research stresses the importance of top-down smart city deployments, by acknowledging also the local specificities. It investigates the status of relevant international contributions, questioning what kind of approaches should be applied by public administrations. The results point out to complex challenges that exist by revealing the status of standardization proceedings, the authors' perspective on the enabling technologies and their dimensions, as well as a related case study concerning a local community of Romania so as to bring the beforementioned issues to light. The main objective of this research is to highlight the associated problematics and draw attention to the urgent need of a new macro-systemic top-down attitude for developing smart cities.

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