Enabling Energy Smart Cities through Urban Sharing Ecosystems

Sustainable IT Ecosystems: Enabling Next-Generation Cities

 Sustainable IT Ecosystems: Enabling Next-Generation Cities Christopher E. Hoover, Ratnesh K. Sharma, Brian J. Watson, Susan K. Charles, Amip J. Shah, Chandrakant D. Patel, Manish Marwah, Thomas W. Christian, Cullen E. Bash HP Laboratories HPL-2010-73 sustainability, cities, sustainable it ecosystems, ecosystems, life cycle, microgrid, water, power, analytics, control theory, autonomous contro...

Energy Management in Smart Cities

Intelligent Urban Data Monitoring for Smart Cities

Urban data management is already an essential element of modern cities. The authorities can build on the variety of automatically generated information and develop intelligent services that improve citizens daily life, save environmental resources or aid in coping with emergencies. From a data mining perspective, urban data introduce a lot of challenges. Data volume, velocity and veracity are s...

FM Backscatter: Enabling Connected Cities and Smart Fabrics

This paper enables connectivity on everyday objects by transforming them into FM radio stations. To do this, we show for the first time that ambient FM radio signals can be used as a signal source for backscatter communication. Our design creates backscatter transmissions that can be decoded on any FM receiver including those in cars and smartphones. This enables us to achieve a previously infe...

Enabling Social- and Location-Aware IoT Applications in Smart Cities

In the last decade, governments, municipalities, and industries have invested large amounts of funds on research on smart cities with the main goal of developing services to improve people’s quality of life. Many proposals focus on a Cloud-centric network architecture in which all the data collected from a myriad of sensors devices is transferred to the Cloud for processing. However, this appro...