Smart City Research

Meijer, Albert; Gil-García, J. Ramón; Bolívar, Manuel Pedro Rodríguez

doi:10.1177/0894439315618890

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“…From our point of view, the above mentioned smart technologies and strategies converge, or may converge, towards a smarter government, more efficient, more effective, better communicated, more responsive and closer to the citizens. Meijer et al (2016) identify three critical issues to advance the study and understanding of smart government and governance in the context of cities: contextual conditions, governance models and the evaluation of public value. These dimensions can be addressed to foster efficiency, including the future potential of smart technologies and strategies.…”

Section: Smart Technologies and Strategies In Action: International Ementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Our central argument is that smart technologies have the potential to foster co-creation of public services and the generation of public value in management processes, based on the collaborative, social and horizontal nature of these smart technologies. At the same time, what may be considered as "smart" may greatly differ depending on contextual conditions such as political systems, geographical situations and technological diffusion itself (Meijer et al, 2016). The "smartness" of government is an issue of interest that has increasingly been present in the conversation of academics and scholars of digital government.…”

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Creating public value through smart technologies and strategies

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Gil-García

2019

IJPSM

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Purpose -The purpose of this paper is to introduce the special issue about generation of public value through smart technologies and strategies. The key argument is that smart technologies have the potential to foster co-creation of public services and the generation of public value in management processes, based on the collaborative, social and horizontal nature of these smart technologies. Understanding these processes from a public management perspective is the purpose of this paper and the rest of the special issue. Design/methodology/approach -The approach to this paper is a theoretical and conceptual review, whereas practical implications both for scholars and practitioners arise from the review of the literature and the conceptual approximation to the notion of smartness in technologies and government. This approach is rooted in the potential of the latest smart technologies and strategies to transform public administrations and to better understand and cope societal problems. Findings -The conceptual and theoretical perspective of this paper offers ideas for future developments. The content of this paper shows that new smart technologies and strategies will shape, and will be shaped by, the future of public organizations and management. This paper illustrates the process of change in public value generation over time, as a result of different public management paradigms (from traditional public administration to new public management), but also different types of technologies (from mainframes to websites and social media and beyond). The empirical evidence of the articles of this special issue supports this conclusion; that open and collaborative innovation processes developed under this emergent technological wave could become encouraging transformative practices in the public sector.Research limitations/implications -The theoretical and conceptual nature of this paper needs further empirical research to validate some of the discussed assumptions and ideas. Originality/value -Although this paper is oriented to present the main contents of the special issue, it also provides an original approach to the theme of public value generation using smart technologies and strategies in public sector management.

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Section: Smart Technologies and Strategies In Action: International Ementioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Creating public value through smart technologies and strategies

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Gil-García

2019

IJPSM

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“…Here, the government may function as a moderator to connect the different actors with common goals but complementary expertise (Cosgrave, Doody, & Walt, 2014). In addition, due to contingency, Smart City development needs to be related to the situated context including prevailing public values Marvin et al, 2016;Meijer, Gil-Garcia, & Rodriguez Bolivar, 2016;Odendaal, 2016) where attention is paid to strengthening urban capacities to cope with a diversity of issues instead of attempting to solve 'all' (Caragliu, Del Bo, Kourtit, & Nijkamp, 2016). This may shift Smart City development from a technological push and fix towards strategic vision development.…”

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Elaborating the urbanism in smart urbanism: distilling relevant dimensions for a comprehensive analysis of Smart City approaches

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Pfeffer

2018

Information, Communication & Society

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Over the last decade, Smart City has increasingly become a popular urban policy approach of cities in both the Global North and Global South. Such approaches focus on digital and technology-driven urban innovation and are often considered to be a universal solution to varied urban issues in different cities. How Smart City policies operate in contemporary cities is being examined in the emerging, but still underdeveloped, academic field 'smart urbanism'. The considerable consequences of Smart City strategies call for critical engagement with the rationale, methods, target group and implications of Smart City approaches in different urban contexts. The aim of this paper is to further such critical engagement by distilling dimensions absent in current smart urbanism. We do so by exploring both the academic field of critical urbanism and smart urbanism and through that develop our contributions to the smart urbanism debate from existing theoretical and conceptual approaches within critical urbanism. We distilled three dimensions that require further development to facilitate a comprehensive analysis of what Smart City policies mean for contemporary urban life: (1) the acknowledgement that the urban is not confined to the administrative boundaries of a city; (2) the importance of local social-economic, cultural-political and environmental contingencies in analysing the development, implementation and effects of Smart City policies; and (3) the social-political construction of both the urban problems Smart City policies aim to solve and the considered solutions. As such, we argue that there is a lack of consideration for 'the urbanism' in smart urbanism. ARTICLE HISTORY

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“…In particular, considering wider areas such as smart campuses, the employed IoT system must provide some LPWAN connectivity, which can deal with these demands [25][26][27][28][29][30]. Finally, in the context of smart cities, the goals can be more ambitious and reach more people, by aiming at sustainability, improving the life conditions of the population, and encouraging the creation of a creative economy [31][32][33].…”

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On the Use of LoRaWAN for the Monitoring and Control of Distributed Energy Resources in a Smart Campus

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The application of the most recent advances of the Internet-of-Things (IoT) technology to the automation of buildings is emerging as a promising solution to achieve greater efficiencies in energy consumption, and to allow the realization of sustainable models. The application of IoT has been demonstrated as effective in many fields, such as confirmed, for instance, by the Industry 4.0 concepts, which are revolutionizing modern production chains. By following this approach, the use of distributed control architectures and of IoT technologies (both wired and wireless) would result in effective solutions for the management of smart environments composed of groups of buildings, such as campuses. In this case, heterogeneous IoT solutions are typically adopted to satisfy the requirements of the very diverse possible scenarios (e.g., indoor versus outdoor coverage, mobile versus fixed nodes, just to mention a few), making their large-scale integration cumbersome. To cope with this issue, this paper presents an IoT architecture able to transparently manage different communication protocols in smart environments, and investigates its possible application for the monitoring and control of distributed energy resources in a smart campus. In particular, a use–case focused on the integration of the Long Range Wide Area Network (LoRaWAN) technology is considered to cope with heterogeneous indoor and outdoor communication scenarios. The feasibility analysis of the proposed solution is carried out by computing the scalability limits of the approach, based on the proposed smart campus data model. The results of the study showed that the proposed solution would be able to manage more than 10,000 nodes. An experimental validation of the LoRaWAN technology confirms its suitability in terms of coverage and latency, with a minimum LoRaWAN cell coverage range of 250 m, and a communication latency of about 400 ms. Finally, the advantages of the proposed solution in the supervision and management of a PV system are highlighted in a real-world scenario.

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Smart City Research

Cited by 125 publications

References 26 publications

Creating public value through smart technologies and strategies

Creating public value through smart technologies and strategies

Elaborating the urbanism in smart urbanism: distilling relevant dimensions for a comprehensive analysis of Smart City approaches

On the Use of LoRaWAN for the Monitoring and Control of Distributed Energy Resources in a Smart Campus

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