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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
6 Citations
4,422 Views
47 Pages

7 January 2023

Sustainable smart cities (SSCs) have developed various services and technologies with multi-stakeholderism under multiple names. The characteristics of SSCs are specified by implementing conceptually related smart cities (CRSCs), which are ICT-based...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,579 Views
17 Pages

Semantic Reasoning for Geolocalized Assessment of Crime Risk in Smart Cities

  • Rosario Minardi,
  • Maria Luisa Villani and
  • Antonio De Nicola

5 January 2023

The increasing number of crimes affecting urban areas requires the adoption of countermeasures to tackle this problem from different perspectives, including the technological one. Currently, there are many research initiatives with the goal of applyi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,996 Views
23 Pages

31 December 2022

Achieving urban sustainability through smart cities is necessary to manage urban environmental problems that threaten human survival. Smart city policy emphasizes the environmental aspects of urban areas while embracing the social and economic sector...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,691 Views
19 Pages

The Future Possibilities and Security Challenges of City Digitalization

  • Peter Barcik,
  • Aneta Coufalikova,
  • Petr Frantis and
  • Jiri Vavra

30 December 2022

To adapt to current changes, such as globalization, climate change, and demographic growth, modern cities must embrace the digitalization of city management. In this paper, we examine a concept for digitalizing a city based on Rotterdam’s digit...

  • Concept Paper
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,539 Views
14 Pages

Towards Optimal Planning for Green, Smart, and Semantically Enriched Cultural Tours

  • Konstantinos Kotis,
  • Asimina Dimara,
  • Sotirios Angelis,
  • Panagiotis Michailidis,
  • Iakovos Michailidis,
  • Christos-Nikolaos Anagnostopoulos,
  • Stelios Krinidis and
  • Elias Kosmatopoulos

26 December 2022

This concept paper presents our viewpoint regarding the exploitation of cutting-edge technologies for the delivery of smart tourism cultural tours. Specifically, the paper reports preliminary work on the design of a novel smart tourism solution tailo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
5,090 Views
23 Pages

26 December 2022

The adoption of the UN 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals is a landmark in international sustainability politics. For example, Europe has set ambitious targets to achieve 100 climate-neutral and smart cities by 2030. However, numerous...

  • Review
  • Open Access
31 Citations
8,504 Views
28 Pages

Review of Smart City Energy Modeling in Southeast Asia

  • Md Shafiullah,
  • Saidur Rahman,
  • Binash Imteyaz,
  • Mohamed Kheireddine Aroua,
  • Md Ismail Hossain and
  • Syed Masiur Rahman

26 December 2022

The Southeast Asian region has been eagerly exploring the concepts of smart city initiatives in recent years due to the enormous opportunities and potential. The initiatives are in line with their plan to promote energy efficiency, phase down/out fos...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,725 Views
15 Pages

26 December 2022

The smart home is amongst the most promising areas of development of communication and information technologies. In order to assure safety, comfort, and resource conservation for all users, a smart home should be viewed as a high-tech system that com...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,571 Views
17 Pages

23 December 2022

The digitalization of the economy provokes the rethinking of manufacturing processes. Despite numerous publications related to Industry 4.0 as a manufacturing approach, the production of fully digital and crypto-asset products was poorly researched....

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,184 Views
21 Pages

Exploring Key Aspects of an Integrated Sustainable Urban Development Strategy in Greece: The Case of Thessaloniki City

  • Fotios Chatzitheodoridis,
  • Katerina Melfou,
  • Achilleas Kontogeorgos and
  • Stavros Kalogiannidis

21 December 2022

Even though efforts have been made in recent decades to revive urban areas in the European Union (EU), the contemporary challenges that mostly large cities face require continuous support and adjustments in urban policies. Under the EU Cohesion Polic...

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