Tania Bailoni, M. Dragoni, C. Eccher, Marco Guerini, Rosa Maimone
{"title":"PerKApp: A context aware motivational system for healthier lifestyles","authors":"Tania Bailoni, M. Dragoni, C. Eccher, Marco Guerini, Rosa Maimone","doi":"10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580763","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580763","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper we present PerKApp, a context-aware system for inducing the user to adopt healthier lifestyles, based on a novel combination of persuasion technologies, natural language generation techniques, and deep knowledge representation tools. In our view, personalized and tailored messages generated according to the characteristic of user, user preferences and the context are extremely useful to increase the effectiveness of persuasion efforts in terms of user acceptance of the proposed behaviors. The architecture of PerKApp is designed with the goal of ease scalability and extendibility to other domains by redefinition of the knowledge and linguistic content.","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":"128847400","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":"Antenna system strategies for wireless sensor networks in resource hungry smart cities","authors":"P. Chakravorty, D. Mandal, A. Polo, F. Viani","doi":"10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580831","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580831","url":null,"abstract":"The information and communication technology (ICT) backbone of any smart city system should be essentially a wireless sensor network (WSN) for it to be smart in any sense. It goes beyond doubt that such a system is extremely hungry in terms of information and resources. The vital resources like frequency spectrum, power of transmission, number of trans-receivers etc. have their own set of limitations in terms of feasibility, availability, safety, reliability and cost-effectiveness. Here, major limitations of a wireless communication network are discussed. A strategy of smart integrated network service (SINS), using directive antennas and phased arrays is proposed to do away with most of these problems.","PeriodicalId":171503,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)","volume":"58 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":"126773009","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}
V. Lisena, M. Paschero, V. Gentile, P. Amicucci, A. Rizzi, F. Mascioli
{"title":"A new method to restore the water quality level through the use of electric boats","authors":"V. Lisena, M. Paschero, V. Gentile, P. Amicucci, A. Rizzi, F. Mascioli","doi":"10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580870","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580870","url":null,"abstract":"In recent years, sustainability has become a focal point in the city development policies leading to the definition of smart city paradigm. A smart city paradigm was conceived with the aim to integrate technology development with different functions/component like sustainable mobility, energy management and water quality. In this paper we propose a novel water sanitization method based on the combination of the classical bioremediation approach with the use of electric boat. The proposed boat must be equipped with echo sounding, G.P.S. sensor and suitable injector. Furthermore it is provided of medium size energy storage systems and power generation from renewable source in order to ensure a completely environmentally friendly mode of operation. The use of this vessel allows to reduce the operating cost of sanitization procedure and permit to integrate a technique for the improvement of the quality of the water in the contest of the Smart City. In fact the proposed boat can interact with the energy management strategy of the city and can participate to vehicle grid policies. A preliminary implementation of the proposed sanitization procedure have been realized at the Rome EUR pond sited in the south area of city. Suitable microorganisms were distributed on three equally spaced points of the basin by meas of a prototype electric boat. The same points were used to monitor the some parameters used to validate the proposed strategy. Obtained results show that the quality of water has been restored to the optimal value after the treatment of bioremediation.","PeriodicalId":171503,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)","volume":"20 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":"126995391","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}
Zhiyong Cui, Shen Zhang, Kristian C. Henrickson, Yinhai Wang
{"title":"New progress of DRIVE Net: An E-science transportation platform for data sharing, visualization, modeling, and analysis","authors":"Zhiyong Cui, Shen Zhang, Kristian C. Henrickson, Yinhai Wang","doi":"10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580736","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580736","url":null,"abstract":"Big data represents a new era in data exploration and utilization. With the growing quantity and variety of data being collected from intelligent transportation systems and other sensors, data-driven transportation research will rely on a new generation of tools to analyze and visualize those data. To address this need, the Digital Roadway Interactive Visualization and Evaluation Network (DRIVE Net) was developed to enable large-scale online data sharing, visualization, modeling and analysis. By incorporating an increasing variety of data sets from different sensing and acquisition technologies, the new DRIVE Net system provides a more stable, powerful, and interactive platform, and is now able to handle more complex computational tasks, visualize large-scale spatial data, and support data sharing services.","PeriodicalId":171503,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)","volume":"30 5 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":"125965491","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}
Marcus Brennenstuhl, D. Pietruschka, U. Eicker, Malcolm Yadack
{"title":"Towards understanding the value of decentralized heat pumps for network services in Germany: Insights concerning self-consumption and secondary reserve power","authors":"Marcus Brennenstuhl, D. Pietruschka, U. Eicker, Malcolm Yadack","doi":"10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580827","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580827","url":null,"abstract":"Heat pumps in households have emerged as potentially important actors in future energy systems characterized by large shares of intermittent renewable energy generation from wind and PV systems. The flexible electricity demand from heat pump systems combined with thermal storage allows load balancing and even participation in reserve and ancillary services markets. The effects of such micro scale DR systems on both the national grid and on local grid conditions have not been sufficiently studied. In this paper, we expand on previous work by combining simulations of a model neighborhood's participation in DR with household heat pumps with an estimation of requirements and potential revenue in the secondary reserve market in Germany. Combining simulations of control strategies for household heat pumps with the electricity grids demand function for secondary reserve power, sheds light on the complexity of providing DR services at this scale and opens up new avenues of research on business models and control strategies for aggregators and other utility companies operating virtual power plants.","PeriodicalId":171503,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)","volume":"37 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":"129160143","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}
Mihai Sănduleac, M. Eremia, L. Toma, Lola Alacreu, Lucas Pons, M. Cresta, M. Paulucci
{"title":"Energy ecosystem in smart cities — Privacy and security solutions for citizen's engagement in a multi-stream environment","authors":"Mihai Sănduleac, M. Eremia, L. Toma, Lola Alacreu, Lucas Pons, M. Cresta, M. Paulucci","doi":"10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580739","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580739","url":null,"abstract":"Smart city concepts essentially rely on energy aspects. This paper emphasizes the main issues to be solved in the energy domain and suggests solutions based on authors' experience in projects related to energy management in cities. We are basically addressing two main aspects of Smart City implementation: a) multi-energy streams when different utilities serve different energy networks in the city (electricity, gas, and heat) and b) the issue of engaging the citizens by sharing their private energy data profile, as an alternative to implementations which fail to advance from small pilots to large deployments. We propose architectures in progress to be implemented in a H2020 project which deals with municipality owned utility in Terni/Italy. Our proposals consider privacy rights according to EU laws and recommendations, data access rights according to national rules as well as empowerment of people which are supported with additional energy services by the municipality. This approach is aimed at high citizen engagement and enabling hierarchical / multi-energy systems optimization with the support from municipalities, thus enabling sustainability within Smart Cities.","PeriodicalId":171503,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)","volume":"39 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":"131458735","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}
Petar Mrazovic, Ivan De La Rubia, J. Urmeneta, Carlos Balufo, R. Tapias, M. Matskin, J. Larriba-Pey
{"title":"CIGO! Mobility management platform for growing efficient and balanced smart city ecosystem","authors":"Petar Mrazovic, Ivan De La Rubia, J. Urmeneta, Carlos Balufo, R. Tapias, M. Matskin, J. Larriba-Pey","doi":"10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580750","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580750","url":null,"abstract":"The massive amount of tourists, citizens and traffic in big cities usually collapse busy areas causing transport inefficiency, unbalanced economic growth, crime, and nuisance among citizens and visitors. Therefore, the Smart City strategies such as Smart Mobility and Smart Governance naturally arise as means to improve mobility in urban areas. In this paper we propose a novel mobility management platform and business model that can attract numerous actors and still be orchestrated by the city government. The proposed platform integrates mobility data from various sources such as Open Data, mobile applications, sensors and government data, allowing for its visualisation and analysis while making it actionable through associated third party mobile applications. We propose to inject the city mobility policies to the third party mobile applications which provide services related to the city resources. In this way we form a value chain which connects different actors (city governments, mobile application providers, POI owners, companies that require logistics in cities, and final users) who both take a part in improving the mobility in urban areas, and benefit from the way mobility policies being executed. In this paper we discuss the business model and logical architecture of the proposed platform which has been already deployed in the city of Barcelona.","PeriodicalId":171503,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)","volume":"65 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":"131742793","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}
V. Petrini, V. D. Mattia, G. Manfredi, A. D. Leo, P. Russo, G. Cerri, L. Scalise
{"title":"An electromagnetic contactless system for apnea monitoring","authors":"V. Petrini, V. D. Mattia, G. Manfredi, A. D. Leo, P. Russo, G. Cerri, L. Scalise","doi":"10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580761","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580761","url":null,"abstract":"The respiratory rate is one of the main vital parameters to be monitored in order to record the physiological and psychological status of a human being. In particular, apnea events represent a serious problem that affect adults and infants and can lead to irreversible brain damages and even to death. Despite these evidences, respiratory rate remains the less monitored parameter because of shortcomings of obstructive measurement techniques. For these reasons during last years we focused our research activity on the development of a smart electromagnetic sensing that allows remote and contactless breathing monitoring and reduces the request of collaboration of the monitored target. In this contribution we want to demonstrate that the electromagnetic approach proposed is also able to record long-time sleep breathing activity highlighting the presence of apnea events. To this aim a campaign of measurements have been conducted in a real domestic scenario and first interesting results will be shown together with some suggestions for future developments.","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":"132000732","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":"Resilience of urban smart grids involving multiple control loops","authors":"J. Madsen, J. Pillai, H. Schwefel","doi":"10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580881","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580881","url":null,"abstract":"Intelligent control of energy distribution grids is implemented via a hierarchy of control loops with different input values and different control targets, which also work on different time-scales. This control is enabled by a bi-directional communication flow, which can be interrupted due to ICT attacks. It is therefore necessary to analyze and understand the emergent behavior resulting from the interplay of the different control loops and how this behavior may change under different communication scenarios. The simulation scenario considered in this paper is a medium and low voltage grid in island mode with a limited grid buffer capacity subjected to ICT attacks. First the interplay of four different control loops that all react to time-varying prices is analyzed. A co-simulation framework is applied to specifically investigate the sensitivity of the emergent grid behavior to extreme conditions on the the price signal communication which could be the result of ICT attacks. In a second step, we introduce a modified pricing scheme, where the energy price is locally influenced by the distribution grid conditions. We then analyze the behavior of this modified scheme when both up-stream and downstream communication are subject to communication delays and losses resulting from ICT attacks.","PeriodicalId":171503,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)","volume":"4 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":"134623443","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}
G. Giuda, Valentina Villa, P. Piantanida, L. Tagliabue, S. Rinaldi, E. D. Angelis, Angelo Luigi CamillAngelo Luigi Camilloni
{"title":"Progressive energy retrofit for the educational building stock in a smart city","authors":"G. Giuda, Valentina Villa, P. Piantanida, L. Tagliabue, S. Rinaldi, E. D. Angelis, Angelo Luigi CamillAngelo Luigi Camilloni","doi":"10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580818","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580818","url":null,"abstract":"The proposed research focuses on energy progressive upgrades of the existing building stock and the connection with the smart city through the Building Information Modeling (BIM) process as a fundamental key factor for the implementation of a connected built environment. Nowadays, this core topic fits into the discussion of the Digital Transition, both about infrastructure (innovative schools), both in the educational services and learning methods (National Plan for Digital Schools Methodologies). Two main points compose the presented research: as first the processes of collecting information and retrofit options (energy retrofit and space use) assessment achieved by a performance based approach for the energy segment and according to a behavioral mindset (behavioral design) for the functional and spatial reorganization and definition. The second part of the project, related to the smart cities, concerns the connection of the buildings between them and with the cultural environment and communities included in the city. The outcomes of the research are intended in presenting a multidisciplinary methodology able to reconnect a broad public building stock to the development of urban and social regeneration policies strongly needed at national and international level.","PeriodicalId":171503,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)","volume":"32 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":"132998422","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}