Smart Community Wireless Platforms: Costs, Benefits, Drawbacks, Risks

Abstract

A wireless network covering most of the city is a key component of a smart city. Although the wireless network offers many benefits, a key issue is the costs associated with laying out the infrastructure and services, making the bandwidth available and maintaining the services. We believe community involvement is important in building city-wide wireless networks. Indeed, many community wireless networks have been successful. Could the city inspire and assist the communities with building their wireless networks, and then unite them for a city-wide wireless network? We address the first question by presenting a model where municipality, communities and smart utility providers work together to create a platform, smart community wireless platform, for a community where platform sides work together toward achieving smart community objectives. One challenge is to estimate the total cost, benefits and drawbacks of such platforms. Another challenge is to model risks and mitigation plans for their success. We examine relevant dynamics in measuring the total cost, benefits, drawbacks and risks of smart community wireless platforms and develop models for estimating their success under various scenarios. To develop models, we use an intelligence framework that incorporates systems dynamics modelling with statistical, economical and machine learning methods.

Controle de banda global em sítios distribuídos para portabilidade de acesso à redes Wi-Fi comunitárias

“…Além disso, o relacionamento entre cidades inteligentes e Wi-Fi comunitárioé bastante vantajoso, pois as cidades inteligentes demandam acesso ubíquo a uma infinidade de dispositivos, fazendo com que a estrutura do Wi-Fi comunitário contribua para essas operações, principalmente em ambientes urbanos e densos de pontos de acessos. Em [Yucel 2018], o autor aborda questões como: quem deveria pagar a conta fornecida por acesso comunitário em cidades inteligentes, uma vez que o acesso de um dispositivo pode atravessar a estrutura de um assinante de um provedor ou operadora? Na solução proposta nesse artigo essa questão seria irrelevante, pois cada dispositivo pertence a um contrato e tem disponível exclusivamente a sua banda contratada, mesmo usando a infraestrutura de outro usuário.…”

A contemplative overview of smart communities: a hybrid analytical approach

“…SCs offer comprehensive solutions that include water, energy and medical systems to achieve a synergistic balance between comfortable living and environmental concerns (Gcaza, 2018). Enterprises may benefit from cost-effective and efficient management, while stakeholders can benefit from easy, quick and smart services (Yucel, 2017). This requires the establishments to enable SCs to attain new levels of financial advantage, growth, security, safety, health and well-being, convenience, equality of opportunity and quality of life (Hale, 2020).…”