The concept of Smart Cities has been introduced some decades ago. How can information and communication technology help to manage a city and make it smart? Management can concern issues such as the distribution of energy and water, traffic control, public transport, surveillance, safety, and data networks. We can say that Smart Cities are ruled by data that is gathered using all kinds of sensor...

Smart ob jects are devices with computational and communication capabilities connected to the Internet forming the so called Internet of Things (IoT). The IoT enables many applications, for instance outdoor lighting con­ trol, smart energy and water management, or environmental sensing in a smart city environment. Security in such scenarios remains an open challenge due to the resource-constrai...

PURPOSE The traditional method of percutaneous renal access requires freehand needle placement guided by C-arm fluoroscopy, ultrasonography, or computerized tomography. This approach provides limited objective means for verifying successful access. We developed an impedance based percutaneous Smart Needle system and successfully used it to confirm collecting system access in ex vivo porcine kid...

Urban water supply systems are complex and dynamic in nature, as a result, can be considered to manage owing enhanced urbanization levels, climate change, growing varying consumer demands, limited resources. The operation of such system must managed effectively for sustainable satisfy the demand. This creates need intelligent purposes operational management. In recent years, computing technolog...

“Clean water and sanitation” is listed as one of the 17 United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals implementing circular economy principles in sector has been widely regarded an important approach achieving this goal. In era Industry 4.0, research practice digitalisation to create a smart system have attracted increasing attention. Despite growing interest, limited devoted how digital techno...