while accounting for the requirements associated with the target network? These include scalability, energy-efficiency and privacy preservation. Sensing the 'city pulse' brings challenges for the supporting data management which must scale-up, as well as integrate highly heterogeneous data of various qualities. The literature is rich with papers addressing these concerns individually. However, ...

This article gives a brief overview of the Internet of Things (IoT) for cities, offering examples of IoT-powered 21st century smart cities, including the experience of the Spanish city of Barcelona in implementing its own IoT-driven services to improve the quality of life of its people through measures that promote an eco-friendly, sustainable environment. The potential benefits as well as the ...

Smart cities evolve over multiple themes and areas with the development of cyber-physical systems and smart services that address several urban issues regarding economy, mobility, environment, people, living and governance. This evolution has obliged the definition of several conceptualization and evaluation models, which respect alternative smart city perspectives. This work proposes smart cit...

Can cities be smart? In this article we define what a smart city is and formulate categories and indicators of smart and/or informational cities. Based on these measures, we investigate four Japanese cities as case studies that appear to be highly developed modern metropolises. We focus on infrastructures essential for an informational city as base for a ubiquitous, smart (in a narrow sense), c...

One of the main issues in current cities is mobility. The unprecedented growth in urban mobility has led to multiple open challenges to be considered in the design of smart cities that improve the citizens' quality of life. There are several factors involved in the development of urban mobility applications as pollution monitoring, traffic congestion, and environmental conditions. One of the mo...

Session summary Dave Carter of Manchester Digital Development Agency introduced and chaired the session which explored the challenges facing various approaches to smart city applications and services, showcasing existing results and identifying recommendations for future developments. He emphasised the need for cities and RDI communities to cooperate on a practical level, and he stressed the cr...