Making a smart city even more intelligent using emergent property methodology

Abstract

With the emergence of IoT (Internet of Things) smart cities have assumed a crucial role in providing intelligent services in real time to residents and visitors, by integrating services such as smart transportation, smart parking and smart people management. By introducing emergent properties as the system's new behaviors or new structures, the system gains another higher level of intelligence that cannot be derived from its underlying substructures individually. In this paper we propose a new model for introducing emergent properties by integrating existing smart city subsystems which are already in use in the city of Dubrovnik, Croatia. The article starts with an overview of the smart city technologies and emerging property methodology. The existing smart city subsystems are explained along with their integration within emergent properties model. The paper concludes with our findings and recommendations, open issues and future research possibilities.