fast and unplanned city growth, has effects such as isolation of village societies, threatening urbancores and centers and small and weak societies, destruction of open spaces and open and natural regions. smart growthoffers a sustainable way for urban developing with appropriate use of available sources, increase of urban services,developing neighborhoods with different uses, making public tra...

Smart cities make use of information technologies to improve performance and quality of urban services, to decrease costs and to optimize resources. However, many citizens do not know all the services and advantages that a smart city offers to them. In this work, we created a geogame to involve them in different cities and, by playing with real services, increase their knowledge about smart cit...

The Internet of Things is arriving to our homes or cities through fields already known like Smart Homes, Smart Cities, or Smart Towns. The monitoring of environmental conditions of cities can help to adapt the indoor locations of the cities in order to be more comfortable for people who stay there. A way to improve the indoor conditions is an efficient temperature control, however, it depends o...

Nowadays, many cities around the world are trying to find smarter ways to manage challenges such as ensuring livable conditions in a context of rapid urban population growth. These cities are often referred to as Smart Cities. In the last years, researchers from many disciplines have contributed to the Smart Cities definition and implementation. In this paper we investigate how topics from two ...

As a research domain, Smart Cities is only emerging. This is evident from the number of publications, books, and other scholarly articles on smart cities indexed in Google scholar and Elsevier’s Scopus—an abstract and citation database. However, significant literature is available on related topics like intelligent city, digital city, and intelligent community based on search results research r...

The FIREBALL project explores the impact of the Future Internet technologies on Smart Cities. This paper proposes a smart cities innovation roadmap framework and recommendations for urban development enabled by future Internet technologies. The roadmap framework aims to support the innovation policies and strategies of cities towards becoming “smart”. The innovation roadmap is based on a system...

Internet of Things (IoT) solutions on smart cities are widely recognized to address the complexity of modern city operation. Concentration of population, scarcity of resources and environmental concerns are the significant challenges that face city operators, and make ordinary service provisioning less efficient. Recently, IoT application on smart cities gained a major attention from both acade...

In a world where resources are scarce and urban areas consume the vast majority of these resources, it is vital to make cities greener and more sustainable. Advanced systems to improve and automate processes within a city will play a leading role in smart cities. From smart design of buildings, which capture rain water for later use, to intelligent control systems, which can monitor infrastruct...

This paper addresses the problem of low impact of smart city applications observed in the fields of energy and transport, which constitute high-priority domains for the development of smart cities. However, these are not the only fields where the impact of smart cities has been limited. The paper provides an explanation for the low impact of various individual applications of smart cities and d...