It Is a global challenge to reduce environmental impact and the carbon footprint. At same time, societal development needs be addressed for resilience. Modern cities are facing of combining competitiveness on city scale sustainable urban become smart cities.

Sharing information is a key enabler in the transition of a city becoming smart. Information, generated by the ICT backbone of a city, and maintained by distinct public and private entities, comes with processing challenges that must be addressed in order to increase citizens’ quality of life and make their cities sustainable. In CRISALIS and SysSec, we investigate such challenges from a securi...

In this chapter, we investigate the concept of Smart Sustainable Cities. We begin with five major developments of the last decades and show how they can be said to build a basis for the Smart Sustainable Cities concept. We argue that for the concept to have any useful meaning, it needs to be more strictly defined than it has previously been. We suggest such a definition and bring up some of the...

Cities have an ever increasing wealth of sensing capabilities, recently including also Internet of Things (IoT) systems. However, to fully exploit such sensing capabilities with the aim of offering effective citysensing-driven applications still presents certain obstacles. Indeed, at present, the main limitation in this respect consists of the vast majority of data sources being served on a “be...

Intellectualization is the basis for managing Smart Cities. This involves infrastructure development and design of vehicles equipped with intelligent modules, which provide the control ability. Along with it, the transition to “green”, safe and sustainable modes of transport, such as bicycle, should be realized. The widespread use of environmentally friendly bicycles is constrained by a number ...

Electrification plays a key role in decarbonizing energy consumption for various sectors, including transportation, heating, and cooling [...]

Smart Cities gained importance as a means of making ICT enabled services and applications available to the citizens, companies and authorities that are part of a city's system. It aims at increasing citizens' quality of life, and improving the efficiency and quality of the services provided by governing entities and businesses. This perspective requires an integrated vision of a city and of its...