Experiences inside the Ubiquitous Oulu Smart City

Gil‐Castiñeira, Felipe; Costa-Montenegro, Enrique; González-Castaño, Francisco J.; Lopez-Bravo, C.; Ojala, Timo; Bose, Raja

doi:10.1109/mc.2011.132

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“…By using strategic urban planning, the municipal administration and the other funding partners have managed the complexity of smart city strategies by effectively combining the importance of new ICT infrastructures and digital services (Dirks and Keeling 2009;Gil-Castineira et al 2011;Schaffers et al 2011) with many other non-technological critical factors that are widely discussed in smart city research. For example: leadership and political commitment (Alawadhi et al 2012;Chourabi et al 2012;Hill et al 2011); governance and funding capability (Washburn et al 2010); coordination, sponsorship, and support across departments (Naphade et al 2011); collaboration between stakeholders and organizations across multiple sectors (Beck 2011;Paskaleva 2009); innovative business and operating models (Belissent et al 2010;Webb et al 2011); long-term vision, performance metrics and commitment from the top (Moss Kanter and Litow 2009); the capability to connect short-term ICT-based projects and initiatives to real local needs , and the benefits from "the enormous innovative potential of grass-roots efforts" (Ratti and Townsend 2011), avoiding the risks of an excessively top-down approach Deakin and Al Wear 2011).…”

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How to Become a Smart City: Learning from Amsterdam

Mora¹,

Bolici²

2016

Green Energy and Technology

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This exploratory study has been carried out to better understand the development process of strategies that allow large European cities to become smart. This aim is achieved through the analysis of the Amsterdam's smart city strategy. By using case study research with a descriptive approach, the activities undertaken during the implementation of this successful initiative have been mapped and organized in a step-by-step roadmap. This made it possible to obtain a detailed description of the entire development process, useful knowledge to consider for other similar initiatives, and a conceptual framework for future comparative research. All these results will support the construction of a holistic and empirically valid theory able to explain how to build effective smart city strategies in this type of urban area.

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How to Become a Smart City: Learning from Amsterdam

Mora¹,

Bolici²

2016

Green Energy and Technology

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“…Oulu is another example for the employment of ICT technologies [22] to enhance efficiency and well-being in the city. In [23], some of the experiences implemented in this city are presented. However, they are focused on specific verticals and there is a lack of a common platform behind all of them.…”

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Smart City Services over a Future Internet Platform Based on Internet of Things and Cloud: The Smart Parking Case

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Enhancing the effectiveness of city services and assisting on a more sustainable development of cities are two of the crucial drivers of the smart city concept. This paper portrays a field trial that leverages an internet of things (IoT) platform intended for bringing value to existing and future smart city infrastructures. The paper highlights how IoT creates the basis permitting integration of current vertical city services into an all-encompassing system, which opens new horizons for the progress of the effectiveness and sustainability of our cities. Additionally, the paper describes a field trial on provisioning of real time data about available parking places both indoor and outdoor. The trial has been carried out at Santander's (Spain) downtown area. The trial takes advantage of both available open data sets as well as of a large-scale IoT infrastructure. The trial is a showcase on how added-value services can be created on top of the proposed architecture.

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“…One of the few examples is Smart Santander [3], a platform that serves as testbed to conduct experiments and test smart city applications, covering more than 1000 sensors. Gil et al report experiences from their deployment of the panOULU wireless network and a corresponding middleware that should enhance communication between citizens and the government [4]. Hielkema et al focus on developing mobile applications and services utilizing open data from municipal organizations in the Helsinki region [5].…”

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Towards a Federation of Smart City Services.

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Werner-Kytölä

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Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Recent Advances in Computer Systems

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Abstract-The emergence of the Internet of Things has accelerated the development of smart cities. Currently, an increasing number of smart city applications comprising various scenarios and use cases is being deployed and tested. However, to realize a smart city, it is necessary to have converging solutions as opposed to niche, detached solutions. Smart city platforms need to take into account existing services and infrastructures. Furthermore, in the context of a smart city it is important to account for various kinds of stakeholders with a variety of requirements with regard to data ownership, legal and organizational frameworks as well as commercial interests. We present the ALMANAC Smart City Platform as a solution which handles the described heterogeneity. Firstly, the platform allows the development of smart city applications by creating interoperability among devices and services. Secondly, the platform is deployed in a de-centralized, federated way that allows to map the organizational requirements to the deployed city systems. We introduce the concept of federation for smart cities and describe its implementation in the ALMANAC Platform through a case study which simulates a scenario in the waste management domain. This scenario models realworld requirements of a waste management company and the municipality of Turin.

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Experiences inside the Ubiquitous Oulu Smart City

Cited by 61 publications

References 8 publications

How to Become a Smart City: Learning from Amsterdam

How to Become a Smart City: Learning from Amsterdam

Smart City Services over a Future Internet Platform Based on Internet of Things and Cloud: The Smart Parking Case

Towards a Federation of Smart City Services.

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