Abstract:By connecting devices, people, vehicles and infrastructures everywhere in a city, governments and their partners can improve community wellbeing and other economic and financial aspects (e.g., cost and energy savings). Nonetheless, smart cities are complex ecosystems that comprise many different stakeholders (network operators, managed service providers, logistic centers. . . ) who must work together to provide the best services and unlock the commercial potential of the IoT. This is one of the major challenge… Show more
“…Hefnawy et al [ 79 ] present a suitable platform for information and knowledge sharing, both within the same event and with other events of a similar nature. Vertical service provisioning and horizontal integration across multiple sectors enhances secure and reliable platform integration to connected smart devices for a wide range of applications and services [ 80 ].…”
Section: Smart Cities Experience and Mega Eventsmentioning
Smart cities can be complemented by fusing various components and incorporating recent emerging technologies. IoT communications are crucial to smart city operations, which are designed to support the concept of a “Smart City” by utilising the most cutting-edge communication technologies to enhance city administration and resident services. Smart cities have been outfitted with numerous IoT-based gadgets; the Internet of Things is a modular method to integrate various sensors with all ICT technologies. This paper provides an overview of smart cities’ concepts, characteristics, and applications. We thoroughly investigate smart city applications, challenges, and possibilities with solutions in recent technological trends and perspectives, such as machine learning and blockchain. We discuss cloud and fog IoT ecosystems in the in capacity of IoT devices, architectures, and machine learning approaches. In addition we integrate security and privacy aspects, including blockchain applications, towards more trustworthy and resilient smart cities. We also highlight the concepts, characteristics, and applications of smart cities and provide a conceptual model of the smart city mega-events framework. Finally, we outline the impact of recent emerging technologies’ implications on challenges, applications, and solutions for futuristic smart cities.
“…Hefnawy et al [ 79 ] present a suitable platform for information and knowledge sharing, both within the same event and with other events of a similar nature. Vertical service provisioning and horizontal integration across multiple sectors enhances secure and reliable platform integration to connected smart devices for a wide range of applications and services [ 80 ].…”
Section: Smart Cities Experience and Mega Eventsmentioning
Smart cities can be complemented by fusing various components and incorporating recent emerging technologies. IoT communications are crucial to smart city operations, which are designed to support the concept of a “Smart City” by utilising the most cutting-edge communication technologies to enhance city administration and resident services. Smart cities have been outfitted with numerous IoT-based gadgets; the Internet of Things is a modular method to integrate various sensors with all ICT technologies. This paper provides an overview of smart cities’ concepts, characteristics, and applications. We thoroughly investigate smart city applications, challenges, and possibilities with solutions in recent technological trends and perspectives, such as machine learning and blockchain. We discuss cloud and fog IoT ecosystems in the in capacity of IoT devices, architectures, and machine learning approaches. In addition we integrate security and privacy aspects, including blockchain applications, towards more trustworthy and resilient smart cities. We also highlight the concepts, characteristics, and applications of smart cities and provide a conceptual model of the smart city mega-events framework. Finally, we outline the impact of recent emerging technologies’ implications on challenges, applications, and solutions for futuristic smart cities.
“…In fact, in January 2016, with the Horizon 2020 research programme, the European Commission funded seven projects to address the interoperability of the Internet of Things: Inter-IoT [15], BIG IoT [16], AGILE [17], symbIoTe [18], VICINITY [19], bIoTope [20]. In general, the most widely followed technical approach to address these issues is the implementation of a hierarchical IoT stack connecting smart objects and IoT gateways with the cloud.…”
The number of smart devices inside the living environments grows more and more every day, and with it the need to interface them in order to share data and activate functions. Each day, new scenarios and new applications emerge to make our lives easier in many different contexts. The AAL SOCIALIZE project aims to create a new reference platform for active ageing by applying technological solutions to care for the health of the elderly, facilitate their daily activities, simplify their access to dedicated services. The work presented herein describes the "Elderly Monitoring service"-an IoT module of the SOCIALIZE platform, whose aim is to monitor elderly people's activities and physiological parameters and to combine smart device functions. This modeling process can actively contribute to anticipating, and thereby preventing, emergency situations, increasing elderly autonomy and making them feel "protected" and "safe". In this regard, the system implements a practicable, scalable solution that allows heterogeneous devices belonging to different domotic systems using diverse protocols to interact with each other, share data and services and bind together through 'friendship', thereby creating an infrastructure suitable for the creation of a true Social IoT (SIoT).
“…There are currently seven H2020 Research and Innovation IoT-EPI projects that aim to improve horizontal interoperability between smart objects, as presented in detail in [6]. Eventually, this IoT convergence would form an open IoT ecosystem in which services in any scale could be offered, traded and monetized on the market.…”
Abstract-A present challenge in today's Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystem is to enable interoperability across heterogeneous systems and service providers. Restricted access to data sources and services limits the capabilities of a smart city to improve social, environmental and economic aspects. Interoperability in the IoT is concerned with both, messaging interfaces and semantic understanding of heterogeneous data. In this paper, the first building blocks of an emerging open IoT ecosystem developed at the EU level are presented. Semantic web technologies are applied to the existing messaging components to support and improve semantic interoperability. The approach is demonstrated with a proof-of-concept for connected vehicle services in a smart city setting.
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