Platforms for Smart Cities – connecting humans, infrastructure and industrial IT

Lehofer, Martin; Heiss, Michael; Rogenhofer, Sophie; Weng, Chang Wei; Sturm, Monika; Rusitschka, Sebnem; Dippl, Sebastian

doi:10.1109/scope.2016.7515056

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“…As explosively growing data and information are becoming "the raw material of the 21st century" [18] for city development, the progressive transformation of urban regional systems caused by applications of information and communication technologies (ICT) has been discussed basically from two perspectives: (i) promotion of communication across fields, departments, industries, and territories. Based on Web 2.0, mobile phone APPs, and new GIS, etc., platforms are established to get various actors connected and selforganized [19]; and (ii) generation of user-oriented solutions thus progressively promoting transformation in institutions, decision-making, governance, and business modes [20]. As a result, the great potential of ICTs to promote the economy, mobility, environment, people, and living standards [21][22][23] has been released in spurts.…”

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Understanding Smart City Practice in Urban China: A Governance Perspective

Han

Cai

et al. 2023

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Through an evolution from an emerging marketing narrative to a geographical fact around the globe, smart city is increasingly understood as a city’s effort to make itself smart. There seems no single city in the world to be commonly recognized as a real smart city yet, albeit many cities have already tried hard in this missionary commitment. Yet some common features can still be seen and identified, particularly from the urban governance perspective. This article explores the practice of smart city construction in China through a lens of governance by observing the interactive involvement of key stakeholders in the process. By taking three cities (Hangzhou, Wuhan, and Shanghai) in China as study cases, a conceptual framework is established in which three sets of actors, i.e., ICT-related enterprises, government, and civil society, and, accordingly, three types of approaches, i.e., ICT-led, planning-led, and place-making-and-community-oriented, are identified. It is found that the evolution of smart city construction rather follows a nonlinear trajectory and is very dependent on whether or not the primary actors and related stakeholders can form an affirmative acting power in triggering the city’s implementation. In other words, there is no “one-size-fits-all” approach to smart city construction. Each city may have its specialization in smartness based on awareness of and respecting its unique existing setting. The empirical study also shows that smart city construction tends to be converged in recognition that the core of smart city is not the smartness of technology but the smartness of all institutions and people enabled to utilize smart tools properly and efficiently in pursuit of people’s well-being, institutional capacity building, and better spatial arrangement towards a sustainable, resilient, and inclusive city in and for the future. From a geographical perspective, that is how to build a smart urban space to make the city a better place to not just accommodate but facilitate and meet people’s increasing demand for a better life in their living places.

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Understanding Smart City Practice in Urban China: A Governance Perspective

Han

Cai

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“…Related to the basic assumptions of the Rational Actor Paradigm is a second concern for us, which is the critical role that the individual (as an atomised 'decision maker') has to play and the efforts that have been made to personalise the urban through behavioural efficiency. However, the smart cities agenda has introduced a particular form of atomisation through the ways in which individuals connect and may be controlled by technologies (Lehofer et al, 2016). From household smart meters, to networked central heating controls to personal travel apps, there is a move towards a hybridised form of human decision making that begins to blur the boundary between human agency and technological control (Stern, 2011).…”

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Smart cities and behavioural change: (Un)sustainable mobilities in the neo-liberal city

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“…Recent contributions continue evolving this kind of platforms to a new level. More than technical innovations, these new platforms aim to develop innovative means of communication with citizens, visitors and customers, creating a new class of services that affect users' lives [15]. Modern kiosk systems can be categorized depending on different dimensions; task, location, intended users or technology [16].…”

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Multifunctional Interactive Furniture for Smart Cities

2018

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The adaptation of cities to a future in which connectivity is at the service of the citizens will be a reality by creating interaction spaces and augmented urban areas. The research on this field falls within the scope of Smart Cities (SC) with the advantages that the common public spaces provide as new points for information exchange between the city, the urban furniture and their citizens. Kiosk systems have been recognized as an appropriate mean for providing event-aware and localized information to the right audience at the right time. Hence, in this article, we provide a vision of an eco-system of multifunctional urban furniture, where kiosks are part of them, designed not only for digital interaction but for sustainable use and symbolic integration into the urban environment as well. The proposed approach is conceived to drive services through digital urban nodes that facilitate tailored citizen-city communication and interaction. The central element of the designed platform consists on an intelligent digital kiosk which features a series of hardware and software components for sensing different environmental conditions, multimodal interaction with users and for conveying the captured data to the Cloud. The custom-based contents visualized to the users are controlled remotely through a management tool that allows to set-up and configure the digital kiosk. This system is not presented as an ad-hoc solution for one specific purpose but instead, it becomes a platform that can accommodate and solve the needs of every kind of user that populates urban shared-use spaces.

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Platforms for Smart Cities – connecting humans, infrastructure and industrial IT

Cited by 11 publications

References 5 publications

Understanding Smart City Practice in Urban China: A Governance Perspective

Understanding Smart City Practice in Urban China: A Governance Perspective

Smart cities and behavioural change: (Un)sustainable mobilities in the neo-liberal city

Multifunctional Interactive Furniture for Smart Cities

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