Capturing the Pulse of Cities: A Robust Stream Data Reasoning Approach

In a Smarter City, available resources are harnessed safely, sustainably and efficiently to achieve positive, measurable economic and societal outcomes. Data (and then information) from people, systems and things is the single most scalable resource available to City stakeholders but difficult to publish, organize, discover and consume, especially in a real-time context. Enabling City information as a utility, through a robust (expressive, dynamic, scalable) and (critically) a sustainable technology and socially synergistic ecosystem, could drive significant benefits and opportunities. In the context of stream data (as real-time, gigantic, noisy and private data), this position paper targets research issues we identify as important to harness the fused information resources of Cities, Citizens and Stakeholders to reach the Smarter City concept.