The crucial roles played by young people in the lives of ancient urban and civic spaces has been underestimated discussions life. Through our case study Roman Egypt, we scrutinize expectations placed on people, specific they would have taken these environments, their agency shaping, responding to, demands them physical social environments. discussion addresses three major themes: people’s visib...

In a city there are numerous items, many of them unnoticed but essential; this is the case of the signals. Signals are considered objects with reduced technological interest, but in this paper we prove that making them smart and integrating in the IoT (Internet of Things) could be a relevant contribution to the Smart City. This paper presents the concept of Smart Signal, as a device conscious o...

3D geospatial information has always been a challenge due to a variety of data models, resolutions and details, ways of representation (b-reps, voxel, SCG), etc. After 9/11 the interest in 3D models (buildings or undergrounds) for emergency responses is progressively increasing. Such models are mostly available from the design phase (as CAD models). Design CAD models are in most of the cases to...

In this paper we describe a methodology to support the modeling and deployment of surveillance data for cooperative inference in wide area surveillance on the smart camera networks. Advanced smart cameras have the ability to detect motion and track objects. Some experimental smart cameras can identify objects and extract features. Recognized features if properly structured and annotated, can be...

The notion of Internet of Things (IoT), as well as related topics like Cyber-Physical Systems and Smart Manufacturing, is currently attracting a lot of attention both within the process industries. Clearly, IoT offers many potential applications for automation, ranging from how to engineer the installation of new plants to production management and more intelligent maintenance schemes. However,...

This paper deals with the problem of sound propagation in urban areas, a real tool leading to smart cities design. It begins by studying the propagation of sound in order to determine and extract the physical parameters that direct this propagation. Then it deals with the formalism of cellular automata and their relation to the specification of physical phenomena with discrete events, such as s...

Cyber-physical systems integrate information and communication technology functions to the physical elements of a system for monitoring and controlling purposes. The conversion of traditional power grid into a smart grid, a fundamental example of a cyber-physical system, raises a number of issues that require novel methods and applications. In this context, an important issue is the verificatio...

Smart devices are becoming more sophisticated with increased capabilities while they remain a relatively low-cost technology. Also, many of these smart devices rely on the prevalence of highspeed wireless networks, including 4G cellular networks. With the Internet of Things, every object can retrieve information from the environment and then manage and share that information with other devices ...