Sensors and Actuators in Smart Cities

Sensors and Actuators in Smart Cities

Author: Mohammad Hammoudeh

Publisher: MDPI

Published: 2018-05-04

Total Pages: 193

ISBN-13: 3038428736

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This book is a printed edition of the Special Issue "Sensors and Actuators in Smart Cities" that was published in JSAN


Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks for Smart Cities

Wireless Sensor and Actuator Networks for Smart Cities

Author: Burak Kantarci

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 1

ISBN-13: 9783038974246

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Our lives are being transformed by the interplay between mobile networks, wireless communications, and artificial intelligence. This transformation is an outcome of the emerging Internet of Things (IoT) concept and advancements in computer architecture that translate into high computing power, high-performance processing, and huge memory capacities. In addition to the IoT, cyber-physical systems aim for the seamless integration of physical systems with computing and communication resources. Furthermore, in urban areas, the integration of "software-defined sensor networks" and "sensing as a service" concepts with legacy WSN-based systems is leading to the transformation of conventional city services towards smart cities. Smart energy, smart driving, smart homes, smart living, smart governance, and smart health are just a few services that smart cities can offer. This book focuses on novel solutions for wireless sensor and actuator networks in smart cities. This Special Issue invites academic and industry researchers in computer science and engineering, electrical engineering, and communication engineering, as well as ICT industry engineers and practitioners, to contribute original articles in all aspects of wireless sensor networks and actuator systems for smart cities.


IoT Technologies in Smart-Cities

IoT Technologies in Smart-Cities

Author: Fadi Al-Turjman

Publisher: Institution of Engineering and Technology

Published: 2020-06-09

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 1785618695

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Smart City and sensing platforms are considered some of the most significant topics in the Internet of Things (IoT). Sensors are at the heart of the IoT, and their development is a key issue if such concepts are to achieve their full potential. This book addresses the major challenges in realizing smart city and sensing platforms in the era of the IoT and the Cloud. Challenges vary from cost and energy efficiency to availability and service quality. To tackle these challenges, sensors must meet certain expectations and requirements such as size constraints, manufacturing costs and resistance to environmental factors. This book focuses on both the design and implementation aspects for smart city and sensing applications that are enabled and supported by IoT paradigms. Attention is also given to data delivery approaches and performance aspects.


Nanosensors for Smart Cities

Nanosensors for Smart Cities

Author: Baoguo Han

Publisher: Elsevier

Published: 2020-02-13

Total Pages: 962

ISBN-13: 0128199237

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Nanosensors for Smart Cities covers the fundamental design concepts and emerging applications of nanosensors for the creation of smart city infrastructures. Examples of major applications include logistics management, where nanosensors could be used in active transport tracking devices for smart tracking and tracing, and in agri-food productions, where nanosensors are used in nanochips for identity, and food inspection, and smart storage. This book is essential reading for researchers working in the field of advanced sensors technology, smart city technology and nanotechnology, and stakeholders involved in city management. Nanomaterials based sensors (nanosensors) can offer many advantages over their microcounterparts, including lower power consumption, high sensitivity, lower concentration of analytes, and smaller interaction distance between object and sensor. With the support of artificial intelligence (AI) tools, such as fuzzy logic, genetic algorithms, neural networks, and ambient-intelligence, sensor systems are becoming smarter. Provides information on the fabrication and fundamental design concepts of nanosensors for intelligent systems Explores how nanosensors are being used to better monitor and maintain infrastructure services, including street lighting, traffic management and pollution control Assesses the challenges for creating nanomaterials-enhanced sensors for mass-market consumer products


Cyber-Physical System Solutions for Smart Cities

Cyber-Physical System Solutions for Smart Cities

Author: Muthumanikandan, Vanamoorthy

Publisher: IGI Global

Published: 2023-08-07

Total Pages: 202

ISBN-13: 1668477580

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In the implementation of smart cities, sensors and actuators that produce and consume enormous amounts of data in a variety of formats and ontologies will be incorporated into the system as a whole. The data produced by the participating devices need to be adequately categorized and connected to reduce duplication and conflicts. Newer edge computing techniques are needed to manage enormous amounts of data quickly and avoid overloading the cloud infrastructure. Cyber-Physical System Solutions for Smart Cities considers the most recent developments in several crucial software services and cyber infrastructures that are important to smart cities. Covering key topics such as artificial intelligence, smart data, big data, and computer science, this premier reference source is ideal for industry professionals, government officials, policymakers, scholars, researchers, academicians, instructors, and students.


Smart Sustainable Cities of the Future

Smart Sustainable Cities of the Future

Author: Simon Elias Bibri

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2018-02-24

Total Pages: 685

ISBN-13: 3319739816

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This book is intended to help explore the field of smart sustainable cities in its complexity, heterogeneity, and breadth, the many faces of a topical subject of major importance for the future that encompasses so much of modern urban life in an increasingly computerized and urbanized world. Indeed, sustainable urban development is currently at the center of debate in light of several ICT visions becoming achievable and deployable computing paradigms, and shaping the way cities will evolve in the future and thus tackle complex challenges. This book integrates computer science, data science, complexity science, sustainability science, system thinking, and urban planning and design. As such, it contains innovative computer–based and data–analytic research on smart sustainable cities as complex and dynamic systems. It provides applied theoretical contributions fostering a better understanding of such systems and the synergistic relationships between the underlying physical and informational landscapes. It offers contributions pertaining to the ongoing development of computer–based and data science technologies for the processing, analysis, management, modeling, and simulation of big and context data and the associated applicability to urban systems that will advance different aspects of sustainability. This book seeks to explicitly bring together the smart city and sustainable city endeavors, and to focus on big data analytics and context-aware computing specifically. In doing so, it amalgamates the design concepts and planning principles of sustainable urban forms with the novel applications of ICT of ubiquitous computing to primarily advance sustainability. Its strength lies in combining big data and context–aware technologies and their novel applications for the sheer purpose of harnessing and leveraging the disruptive and synergetic effects of ICT on forms of city planning that are required for future forms of sustainable development. This is because the effects of such technologies reinforce one another as to their efforts for transforming urban life in a sustainable way by integrating data–centric and context–aware solutions for enhancing urban systems and facilitating coordination among urban domains. This timely and comprehensive book is aimed at a wide audience across science, academia industry, and policymaking. It provides the necessary material to inform relevant research communities of the state–of–the–art research and the latest development in the area of smart sustainable urban development, as well as a valuable reference for planners, designers, strategists, and ICT experts who are working towards the development and implementation of smart sustainable cities based on big data analytics and context–aware computing.


Intelligent Systems for IoE Based Smart Cities

Intelligent Systems for IoE Based Smart Cities

Author: Arun Solanki

Publisher: Bentham Science Publishers

Published: 2023-09-27

Total Pages: 299

ISBN-13: 9815124978

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Intelligent Systems for IoE Based Smart Cities provides simplified information about complexities of cyber physical systems, the Internet of Everything (IoE) and smart city infrastructure. It presents 11 edited chapters that reveal how intelligent systems and IoE are driving the evolution of smart cities, making them more efficient, interconnected, and responsive to the needs of citizens. The book content represents comprehensive exploration of the transformative potential and challenges of IoE-based smart cities, fueled by Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) innovations. Key Topics: Physical layer design considerations that underpin smart city infrastructure Enabling technologies for intelligent systems within the context of smart computing environments Smart sensors and actuators, their applications, challenges, and future trends in IoE-based smart cities Applications, enabling technologies, challenges, and future trends of IoE for smart cities. The integration of Artificial Intelligence, Natural Language Processing, and smart cities for enhanced urban experiences machine learning-based intrusion detection techniques for countering attacks on the Internet of Vehicles Smartphone-based indoor positioning applications using trilateration and the role of sensors in IoT ecosystems IoT, blockchain, and cloud-based technology for secure frameworks and data analytics Blockchain and smart contracts in shaping the future of smart cities. This is a timely reference for researchers, professionals, and students interested in the convergence IoT, intelligent systems and urban studies into smart city planning and design.


Intelligent Sensors for Positioning, Tracking, Monitoring, Navigation and Smart Sensing in Smart Cities

Intelligent Sensors for Positioning, Tracking, Monitoring, Navigation and Smart Sensing in Smart Cities

Author: Tiancheng Li

Publisher: MDPI

Published: 2021-03-04

Total Pages: 266

ISBN-13: 3036501223

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The rapid development of advanced, arguably, intelligent sensors and their massive deployment provide a foundation for new paradigms to combat the challenges that arise in significant tasks such as positioning, tracking, navigation, and smart sensing in various environments. Relevant advances in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) are also finding rapid adoption by industry and fan the fire. Consequently, research on intelligent sensing systems and technologies has attracted considerable attention during the past decade, leading to a variety of effective applications related to intelligent transportation, autonomous vehicles, wearable computing, wireless sensor networks (WSN), and the internet of things (IoT). In particular, the sensors community has a great interest in novel, intelligent information fusion, and data mining methods coupling AI and ML for substantial performance enhancement, especially for the challenging scenarios that make traditional approaches inappropriate. This reprint book has collected 14 excellent papers that represent state-of-the-art achievements in the relevant topics and provides cutting-edge coverage of recent advances in sensor signal and data mining techniques, algorithms, and approaches, particularly applied for positioning, tracking, navigation, and smart sensing.


Intelligent Transportation Related Complex Systems and Sensors

Intelligent Transportation Related Complex Systems and Sensors

Author: Kyandoghere Kyamakya

Publisher: MDPI

Published: 2021-09-01

Total Pages: 494

ISBN-13: 3036508481

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Building around innovative services related to different modes of transport and traffic management, intelligent transport systems (ITS) are being widely adopted worldwide to improve the efficiency and safety of the transportation system. They enable users to be better informed and make safer, more coordinated, and smarter decisions on the use of transport networks. Current ITSs are complex systems, made up of several components/sub-systems characterized by time-dependent interactions among themselves. Some examples of these transportation-related complex systems include: road traffic sensors, autonomous/automated cars, smart cities, smart sensors, virtual sensors, traffic control systems, smart roads, logistics systems, smart mobility systems, and many others that are emerging from niche areas. The efficient operation of these complex systems requires: i) efficient solutions to the issues of sensors/actuators used to capture and control the physical parameters of these systems, as well as the quality of data collected from these systems; ii) tackling complexities using simulations and analytical modelling techniques; and iii) applying optimization techniques to improve the performance of these systems.