2026 October - 20 articles
When several people respond to an aging-in-place alert, they need a shared record of who has seen it, who has taken it on, and how far the response has progressed. In a holder-mediated design, the resident-side device serves every acknowledgment and...
Rapid urbanization and digital transformation are reshaping governance systems across Africa, increasing interest in smart city development to address complex urban challenges. In Tanzania, policies, acts, regulations, strategies, and frameworks have...
Improving energy efficiency and reducing environmental impact are among the most significant global challenges today. In particular, building energy systems (BESs) are the main consumers of urban energy. Reducing energy consumption and optimizing the...
A novel processing and classification framework for the automatic detection and classification of pedestrians, bicycles, and cars in urban environments is proposed and experimentally demonstrated. The proposed processing pipeline combines high-sensit...
Heating and cooling degree-days (HDDs and CDDs) link outdoor temperature to building heating and cooling demand and serve as inputs for building energy and emissions models. Existing data-driven forecasts cover a few stations or provinces within sing...
Sustainable municipal resource stewardship requires a harmonized artificial intelligence (AI) architecture that aligns technical performance with human-centered behavioral dynamics. Traditional smart city enforcement frameworks frequently trigger psy...
Urban transport is increasingly shifting from an efficiency-oriented approach toward accessibility-based and socio-spatial justice paradigms. This paper aims to synthesize current trends and emerging directions in transport and mobility, with a parti...
First/last-mile accessibility around metro stations in hot–arid cities depends not only on proximity and network connectivity but also on climatic exposure, physical movement friction, visual legibility, and route continuity. This study develop...
Smart-city platforms connect IoT devices across transport, energy, water, healthcare and e-government, so every gateway is an entry point. This paper evaluates a four-layer architecture—edge intrusion detection trained across districts by feder...
Rapid urbanization and persistent road-safety challenges have increased the demand for intelligent traffic management systems capable of supporting traffic monitoring, incident analysis, and short-term forecasting. Existing artificial intelligence so...
Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) technologies have become a key enabling technology in modern Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), supporting cooperative awareness, real-time data exchange, and coordinated decision-making among vehicles, infrastructu...
Multi-objective urban development optimization predominantly relies on quantitative indicators, limiting the inclusion of weakly formalized urban qualities. This study aims to incorporate qualitative planning priorities directly into scenario generat...
Advances in sensing, the Internet of Things (IoT), and artificial intelligence (AI) are moving smart cities toward a Fully Sensed Society (FSS), in which human behavior and states can be continuously inferred. This paper presents the Fully Monitored...
Accurate estimation of air pollutants, particularly nitrogen dioxide (NO2), is essential for assessing air quality and supporting informed policy decisions. This study investigates the application of machine learning techniques to estimate ground-lev...
Non-revenue water from undetected leaks is a persistent inefficiency of urban infrastructure, yet public machine-learning (ML) leak-detection benchmarks are reused without scrutiny of their labels. This study audited a widely circulated smart-water b...
Social media platforms generate large volumes of unsolicited textual content that reflect users’ perceptions of urban transportation. This study proposes a fine-grained annotation framework that classifies social media text into three construct...
Reliable positioning underpins connected and autonomous vehicles, delivery robots, public-transport monitoring and infrastructure inspection in smart cities. In urban canyons, covered roads and tunnels, satellite navigation can degrade, making camera...
Grounding systems are essential components of electrical infrastructures, ensuring personnel safety, equipment protection, and operational reliability. In the context of smart cities, these systems have evolved from passive safety elements to critica...
AI is being deployed in smart-grid and smart-city energy infrastructure faster than governance frameworks can validate it. Existing instruments—NERC CIP, NIST AI RMF 1.0, and ISA/IEC 62443—address cybersecurity compliance and AI trustwort...
Urban road user detection supports safety-critical applications in Intelligent Transportation Systems, but architecture assessment requires balancing predictive performance with computational efficiency under controlled and leakage-aware evaluation c...
