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Smart Cities, Volume 4, Issue 2

June 2021 - 25 articles

Cover Story: Smart cities and communities (SCC) constitute a new paradigm in urban development. SCC ideate a data-centered society aimed at improving efficiency by automating and optimizing activities and utilities. Information and communication technology enable data collection and with the help of artificial intelligence (AI) situation awareness can be obtained to feed the SCC actors with enriched knowledge. Though AI technologies provide accurate predictions and classifications, there is an ambiguity regarding the correctness of their outputs. This can make it difficult for the human operator to trust the system. Another challenge related to trust is explainability: models can have difficulty explaining how they came to certain conclusions, so it is difficult for humans to trust them. Once we overcome these challenges, great benefits are anticipated for traffic safety and energy efficiency within SCC. View this paper
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Articles (25)

  • Review
  • Open Access
316 Citations
41,807 Views
21 Pages

22 April 2021

The smart grid is enabling the collection of massive amounts of high-dimensional and multi-type data about the electric power grid operations, by integrating advanced metering infrastructure, control technologies, and communication technologies. Howe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,403 Views
18 Pages

Homo Digitus: Its Dependable and Resilient Smart Ecosystem

  • Donald Bliss,
  • Raymond Garbos,
  • Patrick Kane,
  • Vyacheslav Kharchenko,
  • Thaddeus Kochanski and
  • Andrzej Rucinski

20 April 2021

This paper evaluates the status quo of modern society and identifies the neglect of humanism as the root cause of many of today’s global challenges. Note that “smart cities” are not excluded from this indictment. The “Ptolemaic Universe” offers a mea...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,644 Views
15 Pages

15 April 2021

This paper develops an enhanced inverse filtering-based methodology for drive-by frequency identification of bridges using smartphones for real-life applications. As the vibration recorded on a vehicle is dominated by vehicle features including suspe...

  • Review
  • Open Access
65 Citations
10,492 Views
23 Pages

Energy Harvesting Mechanisms in a Smart City—A Review

  • Ajibike Eunice Akin-Ponnle and
  • Nuno Borges Carvalho

The issue of how to power the deployed Internet of Things (IoT) nodes with ubiquitous and long lasting energy in order to ensure uninterruptible optimisation of smart cities is of utmost concern. This among other challenges has continued to gear effo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
456 Citations
89,309 Views
47 Pages

IoT in Smart Cities: A Survey of Technologies, Practices and Challenges

  • Abbas Shah Syed,
  • Daniel Sierra-Sosa,
  • Anup Kumar and
  • Adel Elmaghraby

30 March 2021

Internet of Things (IoT) is a system that integrates different devices and technologies, removing the necessity of human intervention. This enables the capacity of having smart (or smarter) cities around the world. By hosting different technologies a...

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