University-Based Smart Cities: from collective intelligence to smart crowd-conscience

Abstract

<jats:p>Quality of life, economic, knowledge and human capitals "˜development are the main challenges of the new wave of smart cities. Hybrid strategies of cost leadership and innovation need to be aligned mostly by highly deliberate university creative services. Physical, intellectual and social capitals are loosely coupled to better understanding of the urban fabric and norms of behavior. It requires the creation of applications enabling data collection and processing, web-based collaboration, and "real-time" mining of the collective intelligence of citizens. The Internet of Things (IoT) has been viewed as a promising technology with great potential for addressing many societal challenges, filling the gap in terms of citizen's sensitivity measurement. At the physical level of its ecosystem, buildings are responsible for about 40% of energy consumption in cities and more than 40% of greenhouse gas emissions. With recent products available today, energy consumption in buildings could be cut by up to 70 percent, but it requires an integrated and collective adaptive framework to show how buildings are operated, maintained and controlled with the support of IoT-based innovation and solutions. The number of new IoT protocols and applications has grown exponentially in recent years. However, IoT for smart cities needs accessible open data and open systems, so that industries and universities can develop new services and applications. The main aim is to develop energy efficient frameworks to improve energy efficiency by using innovative integrated IoT techniques. These techniques could integrate technologies from context-aware computing, context-dependent user expectation and profile and occupants' actions and behaviors. This paper tend to present in what extent a case of university-based smart city would invest in IoT as both strategy and process in order to enhance efficiency, innovative education and attractiveness for its current and future citizens.</jats:p>

In the search for the ‘Smart’ Source of the Perception of Quality of Life in European Smart Cities

“…In the last decade, the quality of life (QLF), the economic, knowledge and human capitals' development have been identified as the main challenges of the new wave of cities [34]. These key urban dimensions, especially those in the social and economic sphere [7,5], are exerting their pressure on the city dynamics locally, typically bottom-up occurrences, and are tightly linked with accelerating wealth creation and faster innovation cycles [7].…”

“…Also, based on the post-material position combined with a technocratic perspective on good governance, public values in SC are produced through innovative collaboration [35] and are intended to improve the citizen's QLF in the municipality [34,21], influencing on the different aspects of the city life [43]. Therefore, Proceedings of the 52nd Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences | 2019 URI: https://hdl.handle.net/10125/59768 ISBN: 978-0-9981331-2-6 (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) public value management situates public organizations in a wider network of stakeholders who have to be involved in the public value creation [52,37], in which the use of smart solutions becomes the main goal for improving the quality life [48,4,10].…”