Urban Intelligence at the Edge

Dear Colleagues,

Building a smart city aims to optimize transport, energy distribution, and services provided to residents by installing sensors in parking lots, public transport stations, garbage trucks, urban lighting systems, etc. to collect the data needed to help cities in decision-making processes.

The huge volume of data generated in a city provides enormous amounts of information about the behaviors, habits, and needs of its inhabitants. At the heart of all smart cities are digital technologies that offer significant potential for transformation. Urban intelligence and its constituent elements resulting from the digital transformation process of the city will lead to a paradigm shift in which the city will become a platform where digital services for urban planning and management will be supported by urban analysis and real-time data.

As cities become “smarter”, urban digital services will continue to evolve. Edge computing will play a key role in making digital services possible in smart cities. Edge computing allows large amounts of complex data to be processed and analyzed instantly on the devices themselves, rather than in large data centers.

The goal of this Special Issue is to call for a coordinated effort to understand the opportunities and challenges to developing intelligent solutions for urban issues.

Prof. Giandomenico Spezzano
Guest Editor

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