A Cidade Inteligente: uma reterritorialização / Smart City: A reterritorialization

Prototyping a Smart City

In this paper, we argue that by approaching the so-called Smart City as a design challenge, and an interaction design perspective, it is possible to both uncover existing challenges in the interplay between people, technology and society, as well as prototype possible futures. We present a case in which we exposed data about the online communication between the citizens and the municipality on ...

Smart City as an Smart Energy Hub: A Bibliographic, Analytic and Structural Review

Energy supply is one of the main challenges of the present century. Population growth, rising energy demand, fossil fuel scarcity, and environmental concerns have made energy security as major issue for all countries in the world. Traditional power system, including low-efficiency generation, long-distance transmission and then a complex distribution system, face various challenges that make it...

Internet of Everything – Powering the Smart Campus & the Smart City Geelong’s Transformation to a Smart City

A Unified Definition of a Smart City

There is some consensus among researchers that the first urban civi‐ lization labeled a ‘city’ was Sumer in the period 3,500–3,000 BC. The meaning of the word, however, has evolved with the advancement of technology. Adjec‐ tives such as digital, intelligent, and smart have been prefixed to ‘city’, to reflect the evolution. In this study, we pose the question: What makes a ‘Smart City’, as oppo...

Maternal age and adverse perinatal outcomes in a birth cohort (BRISA) from a Northeastern Brazilian city Idade materna e desfechos perinatais adversos em uma coorte de nascimentos (BRISA) de uma cidade do Nordeste brasileiro

PURPOSE: To verify the existence of associations between different maternal ages and the perinatal outcomes of preterm birth and intrauterine growth restriction in the city of São Luís, Maranhão, Northeastern Brazil. METHODS: A cross-sectional study using a sample of 5,063 hospital births was conducted in São Luís, from January to December 2010. The participants comprise the birth cohort for th...