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Smart Cities, Volume 6, Issue 1

February 2023 - 31 articles

Cover Story: Energy communities have been defined in European Directives and foster cooperation between active and passive users to share locally produced energy according to innovative management schemes. A rising number of energy communities composed of different participants (e.g., residential, industrial, commercial, and tertiary sectors) are expected to develop within city districts or in suburban settings. The authors developed a methodology capable of bridging the complexity that characterises the prototyping, implementation, and management phases of an energy community within a positive energy district. Requirements and best practices for administrative, technical, and technological management have been identified to define a governance model that empowers members of energy communities. View this paper
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Articles (31)

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,145 Views
24 Pages

The Pandemic and the Creative Performance of Cities: An Empirical Study in Portugal

  • Margarida Rodrigues,
  • Mário Franco,
  • Cidália Oliveira,
  • Ana Pinto Borges and
  • Rui Silva

2 February 2023

In a pandemic and post-pandemic environment, the consequences for the creative economy have been brutal and nefarious. Thus, this study aims to measure cities’ creativity performance, through a composite index, reported in the year 2021. In thi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,629 Views
35 Pages

The Smart Community: Strategy Layers for a New Sustainable Continental Framework

  • Vlad Stoicescu,
  • Teodora Ioana Bițoiu and
  • Cătălin Vrabie

2 February 2023

The topic investigated in this article is a comparison, contrast, and integration effort of European strategies for sustainable development with the evolving market initiatives that are beginning to fuel the fourth industrial revolution. Several regu...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,011 Views
18 Pages

Smart Thinking on Co-Creation and Engagement: Searchlight on Underground Built Heritage

  • Carlos Smaniotto Costa,
  • Rolando Volzone,
  • Tatiana Ruchinskaya,
  • Maria del Carmen Solano Báez,
  • Marluci Menezes,
  • Müge Akkar Ercan and
  • Annalisa Rollandi

1 February 2023

This paper aims to explore public participation for activating underground built heritage (UBH). It describes and analyses practices of stakeholders’ engagement in different UBH assets, based on experiences gathered in the scope of the European...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,461 Views
24 Pages

28 January 2023

Based on cited literature, it can be observed that the bike road system is an important part of Smart Mobility. The amount of bicycle roads can be seen as one of the technical-infrastructure indicators used to measure the potential of the Smart Mobil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
3,753 Views
29 Pages

28 January 2023

Topics related to sustainable economic development are currently important issues in the modern world. However, the implementation of this concept and related operational strategies raises many controversies. On the one hand, it offers hope for ecolo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,380 Views
20 Pages

13 January 2023

In this paper, we propose a conceptual-model called the virtualizing/reframing (V/R) twin model to construct a digitally enhanced real world. The V/R twin model simulates the real world, and is an extension of the conventional digital-twin model, whi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,478 Views
25 Pages

12 January 2023

The digitisation of administrative tasks and processes is a reality nowadays, translating into added value such as agility in process management, or simplified access to stored data. The digitisation of processes of decision-making in collegiate bodi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,995 Views
28 Pages

Industrial Data Homogenization and Monitoring Scheme with Blockchain Oracles

  • Denis Stefanescu,
  • Patxi Galán-García,
  • Leticia Montalvillo,
  • Juanjo Unzilla and
  • Aitor Urbieta

10 January 2023

Research efforts on Distributed Ledger Technologies (DLTs) for industrial applications have constantly been increasing over the last years. The use of DLTs in the Industry 4.0 paradigm provides traceability, integrity, and immutability of the generat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,478 Views
20 Pages

Exploiting 2D/3D Geomatics Data for the Management, Promotion, and Valorization of Underground Built Heritage

  • Lucrezia Gorgoglione,
  • Eva Savina Malinverni,
  • Carlos Smaniotto Costa,
  • Roberto Pierdicca and
  • Francesco Di Stefano

10 January 2023

The scarce knowledge and documentation of Underground Built Heritage (UBH) assets frequently limit their full exploitation and valorization. The aim of this work is to reflect on the techniques, functions, and technical features of a specific case st...

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