Abstract Asia Pacific, which makes up 60% of the world’s population, is emerging as a dynamic region in world terms economic and technological growth. It no surprise that Asian cities are also recognized leaders designing smart harness digital information to improve operational efficiency. This chapter provides an overview subjects jurisdictions this book will cover, outlining its structure wel...

With the growing popularity of Internet of Things (IoT) technologies and sensors deployment, more and more cities are leaning towards the initiative of smart cities. Smart city applications are mostly developed with aims to solve domain-specific problems. Hence, lacking the ability to automatically discover and integrate heterogeneous sensor data streams on the fly. To provide a domain-independ...

The idea of modern urban systems and smart cities requires monitoring and careful analysis of different signals. Such signals can originate from different sources and one of the most promising is the BTS, i.e. base transceiver station, an element of mobile carrier networks. This paper presents the fundamental problems of elicitation, classification and understanding of such signals so as to dev...

AI developments on smart cities, if not critical, risk making a flawed urban model more efficient. Instead, we suggest that AI should challenge the mainstream techno-optimistic approach to solving urban problems by dialoguing with other academic fields, questioning the dominant urban paradigm, and creating transformative solutions. We claim that doing differently, rather than doing better, may ...

These days, unless something has the epithet “smart” attached to it, it is nothing. Smart Energy solutions promise cleaner, cheaper and more reliable energy. Smart Cities promise better quality of life for its citizens. We will argue that for a “system” to be SMART, it should Sense Meaningfully, Analyze and Respond Timely. Using real-world examples from the domains of Smart Energy and Smart Cit...

Smart city means an intelligent city called post-ubiquitous city. However, to be a smart city, there are some issues to consider carefully. The first is the security issues having platform and intelligent surveillance function and analysis function as well as inference. The second is the governance issues between government and cities which are developing. And the third is the service issues to...

As the majority of world population will be living in cities by 2050, it became a necessity for societies to build cities that are capable of meeting the needs of current and future generations in a smart way. There have been initiatives toward smart/sustainable cities that had succeeded, and others had failed. Being sustainable and smart had been used in a quite confusing way. In this paper, w...

Smart city is emerging as a response to mitigate the problems of fast urbanization and unpredictability of standards, policies, and citizens’ needs in urban areas. For a city to be smart, integration of city systems is essential in order to provide flexibility and access to real-time information for creation and delivery of efficient services. Business Process Change (BPC) is essential for syst...