{"title":"Video analysis for Yellow Box Junction violation: Requirements, challenges and solutions","authors":"Rami Alkhawaji, Mohamed H. Sedky, A. Soliman","doi":"10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580856","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580856","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, a series of efforts have been undertaken in order to bring more intelligence to the public transportations of smart cities to solve essential problems like traffic management for public safety, smart traffic monitoring and congestion management. In this paper, we propose solutions for the Yellow Box Junction violation in order to reduce traffic congestion on roads by using video analytic techniques and a model for traffic monitoring using a single and dual camera (Fixed and PTZ Camera) as master-slave control. This paper highlights the major challenges related to computer vision which are encountered in the design of traffic management systems. Further enhancement in traffic management can be done by designing efficient feature extraction, tracking and recognition algorithms that can help in improving the classification results of the proposed system.","PeriodicalId":171503,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121348860","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yunior Luis, P. Santos, Tiago Lourenço, C. Pérez-Penichet, Tânia Calçada, Ana Aguiar
{"title":"UrbanSense: An urban-scale sensing platform for the Internet of Things","authors":"Yunior Luis, P. Santos, Tiago Lourenço, C. Pérez-Penichet, Tânia Calçada, Ana Aguiar","doi":"10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580869","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580869","url":null,"abstract":"A critical step towards smarter and safer cities is to endow them with the abilities to massively gather a wide variety of data sets and to automatically feed those data to decision support tools and applications that leverage artificial intelligence. We present UrbanSense, a platform deployed on the streets of a mid-size European city (Porto, Portugal) to collect key environmental data. The main innovations of UrbanSense are (1) design for affordability and extensibility, (2) its ability to leverage heterogeneous networks to send the data to the cloud (using both real-time and delay-tolerant communications), and (3) its Internet of Things integration to expose the data streams to smart city tools and applications. Beyond discussing the design choices, we present operational results for 6 months of operation and give a detailed account of the challenges faced by the successful deployment of urban sensing technologies in the wild.","PeriodicalId":171503,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)","volume":"163 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121395749","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. Pescosolido, Riccardo Berta, L. Scalise, G. M. Revel, A. D. Gloria, Gianni Orlandi
{"title":"An IoT-inspired cloud-based web service architecture for e-Health applications","authors":"L. Pescosolido, Riccardo Berta, L. Scalise, G. M. Revel, A. D. Gloria, Gianni Orlandi","doi":"10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580759","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580759","url":null,"abstract":"E-Health services can take advantage of the technological achievements in the area of the Internet of Things (IoT), and of the cost reduction and increasing user-friendliness of health monitoring devices. Homes equipped with environmental sensors, physiological parameters monitoring devices, and home automation devices, could become the “hardware” of an “operating system” for application developers and service providers. The system would expose web services through a unique cloud infrastructure for users' data collection and storage, administration and billing, and healthcare service provisioning applications by possibly multiple third parties. We present an instance of a cloud-based web server which relies on a “home system” for the collection of information from an heterogeneous set of devices, providing a high level description of the proposed overall architectural model, of the induced opportunities from the market perspective, and of how it could be used by healthcare applications developers and service providers, including details on how the web server Application Programming Interfaces (API) is implemented in our instance.","PeriodicalId":171503,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)","volume":"340 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116449369","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
S. Fanchenko, A. Baranov, A. Savkin, A. Somov, L. Calliari
{"title":"Multi-wavelength IR method for monitoring air pollution in cities","authors":"S. Fanchenko, A. Baranov, A. Savkin, A. Somov, L. Calliari","doi":"10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580867","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580867","url":null,"abstract":"In this work we address the problem of air pollution in modern cities. We propose a method for detection and analysis of evaporation (H2O), carbon dioxide (CO2), carbon monoxide (CO) and methane (CH4) which are the typical components of exhaust gases produced by the gasoline vehicles. The method is based on infrared multi-wavelengths absorption in the range of 1.3-2.3 μm and can be implemented by using multi waves array of light emitting diodes (LEDs). The proposed approach allows several absorption spectra to be covered by one LED absorption line, thus the number of used LEDs should be not less than the number of considered absorption lines. The simulation was done for a 6-element multi-wavelengths LED array. We demonstrate that the method is highly relevant for the application to open-path detectors where the radiation source and the receiver are located at a distance of tens of meters from each other.","PeriodicalId":171503,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124915423","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
L. Gugliermetti, M. Sabatini, G. Palmerini, M. Carpentiero
{"title":"Air quality monitoring by means of a miniaturized sensor onboard an autonomous wheeled rover","authors":"L. Gugliermetti, M. Sabatini, G. Palmerini, M. Carpentiero","doi":"10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580868","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580868","url":null,"abstract":"The growing sensibility on health has focused people interest on the air quality. Small monitoring systems are inexpensive solutions, requiring minimal equipment and installation time. In urban environment, as well as in special indoor areas, the air quality levels suffer from both time and space variations even over a very short scale. From this point of view, mobile sensors would allow for a more exhaustive mapping of the region of interest, including information of the dynamics affecting the possible pollution. However, the cost of the monitoring could become unacceptably high if the mobile robots must be controlled by human operators. This research proposes an autonomous guidance, navigation and control system for mapping the state and evolution of the pollution by means of a set of sensors (measuring LPE, CO, CO2, CH4, H2, NH4) purposely developed and mounted on a wheeled rover. GPS, inertial measurement units and stereo vision enable autonomous navigation of the monitoring system, proved to be effective in the presented tests.","PeriodicalId":171503,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125186680","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Impact of green signal countdown devices on driving behavior using Cellular Automaton model","authors":"Kaiqiang Xie, Hui Xiong, Haohao Li, Q. Pan","doi":"10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580734","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580734","url":null,"abstract":"Green Signal Countdown Devices (GSCD) have been becoming increasingly common at urban intersections in China during recent years. However, controversy about the impact of GSCD on driving behavior still exists. To better understand the impact of GSCD on driving behavior at the last several seconds of green phase and amber phase, a one-dimension Cellular Automaton (CA) model based on NaSch rule is formulated. Approaching speed and car spacing are applied as two indicators for driving behaviors. The simulation results show that in peak hours, the approaching speed is larger at intersection with GSCD, especially in the segment close to stop line. Whereas, it is much lower in off peak hours compared with intersection without GSCD. Additionally, with the presence of GSCD, larger car spacing is observed during off-peak hours. However, the effect of GSCD on car spacing in peak hours is not significant.","PeriodicalId":171503,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127578166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Víctor M. Larios-Rosillo, L. Gomez, Olga B. Mora, Ma. Roció Maciel Arellano, N. Villanueva-Rosales
{"title":"Living labs for smart cities: A use case in Guadalajara city to foster innovation and develop citizen-centered solutions","authors":"Víctor M. Larios-Rosillo, L. Gomez, Olga B. Mora, Ma. Roció Maciel Arellano, N. Villanueva-Rosales","doi":"10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580773","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580773","url":null,"abstract":"Pursuing innovative projects for the development of Smart Cities requires collaborative efforts from members of the triple helix (government, industry and academia). Developing Smart Cities solutions faces the challenge of validating prototypes with respect to the following criteria: scalability, interoperability, modularity, resiliency, and security. The first Living Lab for Smart Cities at the University of Guadalajara aims to provide a test bed for the verification and validation of Smart City solutions with a focus on IT core technologies. Smart City indicators aim to provide metrics that evaluate the performance of a city from a specific perspective (e.g., mobility). Living Labs are designed to facilitate the generation of such metrics at the development phase. In this paper, we present our experience on implementing a test bed with scalable architecture for testing multiple solutions. We also describe our current efforts towards creating an international network for Living Labs through an interdisciplinary consortium of academia and industry for Smart Cities.","PeriodicalId":171503,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)","volume":"21 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127221565","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
M. Alba, Manuel Avalos, Carlos Guzman, Víctor M. Larios-Rosillo
{"title":"Synergy between smart cities' hackathons and living labs as a vehicle for accelerating tangible innovations on cities","authors":"M. Alba, Manuel Avalos, Carlos Guzman, Víctor M. Larios-Rosillo","doi":"10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580877","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580877","url":null,"abstract":"Governments, universities and companies around the world are seeking ways to promote innovation in order to build solutions towards Smarter Cities. As smart cities grow, living labs are created as platforms to test these solutions in a real-life context before implementing them on cities. Hosting smart cities' themed hackathons is an excellent way for empowering and engaging citizens to be aware of how their active participation can positively affect the quality of life in their cities. Hence, a synergy between living labs and smart cities' hackathons has been proven successful, more specifically in the city of Guadalajara, Mexico, where a series of biannual smart cities' hackathons has been hosted with concrete results. These hackathons work as a platform that encourages the whole ecosystem which involves government, education, industry and citizens to focus on solving punctual problems in order to achieve a smarter city. The solutions and contributions for smarter cities generated at these events can be in the form of applications, creation of datasets, APIs, hardware, wearables and sensors; which are tangible footprints that can be used for posterior research oriented towards the optimization of the city's processes and services. To maximize the potential of these events, they must follow specific organization guidelines; therefore, a model describing the steps for hackathons to become an enabler platform of innovation in a city's ecosystem is proposed. Following this predetermined model for hosting hackathons, designed by the previous experience of organizing successful events in the city of Guadalajara, but moreover a successful synergy, can lead to the accelerated implementation of innovative assets for smarter cities, generating an economic impact through the development of these resources.","PeriodicalId":171503,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)","volume":"13 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117089166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Gorazd Marinic, N. Walravens, Heritiana Ranaivoson
{"title":"Complementing Smart City innovation platforms with technical harmonization","authors":"Gorazd Marinic, N. Walravens, Heritiana Ranaivoson","doi":"10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580781","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580781","url":null,"abstract":"This paper explores the use of two divergent approaches towards becoming a Smart City: using a top-down approach and using a bottom-up approach. Main characteristics and shortcomings are identified, and then the concept of a Local Innovation Platform is introduced as a combined, alternative approach. Finally, based on the lessons learned in the ECIM EU project, and based on other Smart Mobility related works and initiatives, the paper proposes which approach a city and authorities could take and what role they could play, and to what extent they should interfere and shape the development of Smart City solutions.","PeriodicalId":171503,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)","volume":"60 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114668776","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Iraklis Symeonidis, Mustafa A. Mustafa, B. Preneel
{"title":"Keyless car sharing system: A security and privacy analysis","authors":"Iraklis Symeonidis, Mustafa A. Mustafa, B. Preneel","doi":"10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580758","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580758","url":null,"abstract":"This paper proposes a novel physical keyless car sharing system where users can use and share their cars without the need of physical keys. It also provides a comprehensive security and privacy analysis of such a system. It first presents a high-level model for a keyless car sharing system, describing its main entities and specifying the necessary functional requirements to allow users to share their cars (with other users) without exchanging physical keys. Based on this model and functional requirements, the paper presents a comprehensive threat analysis of the system. It focuses on the threats affecting the system's security and the users' privacy. This analysis results in a specification of an extensive set of security and privacy requirements for the system. This work can be used as a guide for a future keyless car sharing system design and as a mean to assess the security and privacy risks imposed on users by such systems.","PeriodicalId":171503,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128921969","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}