Smart cities and a data-driven response to COVID-19

James, Philip; Das, Ronnie; Jalosinska, Agata; Smith, Luke

doi:10.1177/2043820620934211

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“…In response to the COVID-19 crisis, the live data feeds of the platform were re-purposed to develop a data dashboard that informed local authorities of changes in societal behaviors and allowed them to make data-driven and evidence-based adaptive decisions. For instance, it immediately revealed abnormal changes in mobility and activity patterns that required attention, and also enabled data exchange between different stakeholders in a timely manner ( James et al, 2020 ). Cases of utilizing smart technologies for minimizing human-to-human contact in service delivery have also been reported.…”

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The COVID-19 pandemic: Impacts on cities and major lessons for urban planning, design, and management

Sharifi

Khavarian-Garmsir

2020

Science of The Total Environment

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Since the early days of the COVID-19 crisis the scientific community has constantly been striving to shed light on various issues such as the mechanisms driving the spread of the virus, its environmental and socio-economic impacts, and necessary recovery and adaptation plans and policies. Given the high concentration of population and economic activities in cities, they are often hotspots of COVID-19 infections. Accordingly, many researchers are struggling to explore the dynamics of the pandemic in urban areas to understand impacts of COVID-19 on cities. In this study we seek to provide an overview of COVID-19 research related to cities by reviewing literature published during the first eight months after the first confirmed cases were reported in Wuhan, China. The main aims are to understand impacts of the pandemic on cities and to highlight major lessons that can be learned for post-COVID urban planning and design. Results show that, in terms of thematic focus, early research on the impacts of COVID-19 on cities is mainly related to four major themes, namely, (1) environmental quality, (2) socio-economic impacts, (3) management and governance, and (4) transportation and urban design. While this indicates a diverse research agenda, the first theme that covers issues related to air quality, meteorological parameters, and water quality is dominant, and the others are still relatively underexplored. Improvements in air and water quality in cities during lockdown periods highlight the significant environmental impacts of anthropogenic activities and provide a wake-up call to adopt environmentally friendly development pathways. The paper also provides other recommendations related to the socio-economic factors, urban management and governance, and transportation and urban design that can be used for post-COVID urban planning and design. Overall, existing knowledge shows that the COVID-19 crisis entails an excellent opportunity for planners and policy makers to take transformative actions towards creating cities that are more just, resilient, and sustainable.

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confidence: 99%

The COVID-19 pandemic: Impacts on cities and major lessons for urban planning, design, and management

Sharifi

Khavarian-Garmsir

2020

Science of The Total Environment

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“…Along diverse geographical and thematic contexts, Sars-CoV-2 has been well addressed in the recent literature. As illustration, we can refer to Hoffmann and Barbosa (2020), Springer (2020), Brice (2020), Chen et al (2020), James et al (2020), Brydges and Hanlon (2020), Cinnamon (2020), Tedeschi (2020), Manzo and Minello (2020), Brunsdon (2020), Tyner and Rice (2020), Maalsen et al (2020).…”

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The role of culture on 2020 SARS-CoV-2 Country deaths: a pandemic management based on cultural dimensions

Ibáñez

Sisodia

2020

GeoJournal

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This study aims to analyze the role of cross-cultural country differences during a global pandemic. Based on country cultural dimensions and country economic indicators, the research proposes specific policies that might prove of value in order to manage and better respond to present and future critical events such as the 2020 SARS-CoV-2 outbreak. The methodology is based on multivariate analysis for the first set of countries and crosscountry comparative analysis for the second set of countries. Research results reveal the critical role of the cultural dimensions individualism, power distance, masculinity, long-term orientation and indulgence, along with the country economic context in the magnitude of the consequences of a global pandemic within a country specific context. Based on these results, the study proposes policies adjusted to the countries specific cultural and economic frameworks in order to promote the most effective and efficient management of a critical event such as a global pandemic. Keywords Cross-cultural management Á Cultural dimensions Á Global pandemic Á SARS-CoV-2 Á Policies 123

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“…IoT dashboards are rapidly being implemented as part of an urban observatory to capture and display results of city interventions to combat COVID-19. Dashboards have also been reported to show insights on the environmental impact of planned social distancing measures by authorities with improvements in air quality being observed [61]. Hossam et al [62] propose an integrated IoT platform that takes big data from multiple IoT sensors as input and produces information on an interactive dashboard.…”

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IoT in the Wake of COVID-19: A Survey on Contributions, Challenges and Evolution

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The novel coronavirus (COVID-19), declared by the World Health Organization (WHO) as a global pandemic, has brought with it changes to the general way of life. Major sectors of the world industry and economy have been affected and the Internet of Things (IoT) management and framework is no exception in this regard. This article provides an up to date survey on how a global pandemic such as COVID-19 has affected the world of IoT technologies. It looks at the contributions that IoT and associated sensor technologies have made towards virus tracing, tracking and spread mitigation. The associated challenges of deployment of sensor hardware in the face of a rapidly spreading pandemic have been looked into as part of this review article. The effects of a global pandemic on the evolution of IoT architectures and management have also been addressed, leading to the likely outcomes on future IoT implementations. In general, this article provides an insight into the advancement of sensor-based E-health towards the management of global pandemics. It also answers the question of how a global virus pandemic has shaped the future of IoT networks.

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Smart cities and a data-driven response to COVID-19

Cited by 53 publications

References 5 publications

The COVID-19 pandemic: Impacts on cities and major lessons for urban planning, design, and management

The COVID-19 pandemic: Impacts on cities and major lessons for urban planning, design, and management

The role of culture on 2020 SARS-CoV-2 Country deaths: a pandemic management based on cultural dimensions

IoT in the Wake of COVID-19: A Survey on Contributions, Challenges and Evolution

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