{"title":"Reservation-based multi-objective smart parking approach for smart cities","authors":"Naourez Mejri, M. Ayari, R. Langar, L. Saïdane","doi":"10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580840","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580840","url":null,"abstract":"It has been revealed that cruising for parking is one of the main sources of road congestion and pollution, as well as daily discomfort and stress experienced by drivers while on road to attend their everyday businesses. Therefore, there is a substantial need to design efficient car parking mechanisms that can be easily deployed into future intelligent transportation systems. In this paper, we tackle this important issue and we propose a new Reservation-based multi-Objective SmArt Parking approach denoted as ROSAP. Our approach uses a simulated annealing based meta-heuristic to optimize the parking slot assignment problem formulated as a multi-objective Integer Linear Program (ILP). ROSAP helps drivers to find the most suitable parking slot within their areas of interest and with respect to their specified constraints. In order to gauge the effectiveness of our proposal, we conducted extensive simulation experiments considering a real-like environment. Results show significant gains in both request satisfaction ratio and parking occupancy while keeping a minimal walking distance between the parking and the user's destination, in comparison with greedy approaches where each vehicle is assigned a free parking slot, which is closer to the destination.","PeriodicalId":171503,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)","volume":"30 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":"127204013","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":"Next generation zero-power RFID-tag for UWB pervasive identification","authors":"D. Masotti, M. Fantuzzi, A. Costanzo","doi":"10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580855","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580855","url":null,"abstract":"This work presents a paper-based innovative tag architecture, thought for next generation passive RFID, where simultaneous communication and radio-frequency energy collection capabilities exploit the UWB and the UHF bands, respectively. These functionalities are achieved through a compact single-port dual-band antenna and a feeding/matching network able to highly decouple the two operating paths. The electromagnetic design and the promising performance of the entire tag in the dual-mode of operation are deeply described.","PeriodicalId":171503,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)","volume":"45 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":"114899846","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":"An algorithm for initial public transport network design over geospatial data","authors":"M. Shcherbakov, A. Golubev","doi":"10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580780","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580780","url":null,"abstract":"Collecting geospatial data from different sources e.g. mobile phones and devices brings new opportunity to extract real needs of people in an urban ecosystem. Having data about people's everyday movements, we can understand people preferences and needs in the urban transport system. A modified transport network (or even a bunch of alternatives) can be suggested as the results of analysis. This new solution reflects needs of people and reduces transfer time and increases satisfaction level. However, the problem of geospatial data analysis is needed to be solved so that the authorities could choose (sub)optimal routes. Choosing an optimal routes network is an iterative procedure which requires human (expert) intervention. To avoid costs at the initial stage, we suggest an algorithm which helps to build initial sets of routes based on the big set of geospatial data in respect with reducing an average length cost function. Some use cases on synthetic data explain the efficiency of the algorithm over big geospatial data processing.","PeriodicalId":171503,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)","volume":"14 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":"115439093","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}
A. Bahmanyar, A. Estebsari, E. Pons, E. Patti, S. Jamali, E. Bompard, A. Acquaviva
{"title":"Fast fault location for fast restoration of smart electrical distribution grids","authors":"A. Bahmanyar, A. Estebsari, E. Pons, E. Patti, S. Jamali, E. Bompard, A. Acquaviva","doi":"10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580741","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580741","url":null,"abstract":"Distribution systems are evolving towards fault self-healing systems which can quickly identify and isolate faulted components and restore supply to the affected customers with little human intervention. A self-healing mechanism can considerably reduce the outage times and improve the continuity of supply; however, such an improvement requires a fast fault location method and also a communication and measurement infrastructure. In this paper the feasibility of fast service restoration through a fast fault location method is studied. A fast fault location method is proposed which is applicable to any distribution network with laterals, load taps and heterogeneous lines. The performance of the proposed method is evaluated by simulation tests on a real 13.8 kV, 134-node distribution system under different fault conditions. The results verify the applicability of the proposed architecture. We show that the communication delay plays a less important role in overall restoration time, and we stress the contribution of a fast fault location method in keeping the overall interruption time less than 1 minute.","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":"115722751","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}
Alexandros Angelopoulos, D. Gavalas, C. Konstantopoulos, D. Kypriadis, G. Pantziou
{"title":"Incentivization schemes for vehicle allocation in one-way vehicle sharing systems","authors":"Alexandros Angelopoulos, D. Gavalas, C. Konstantopoulos, D. Kypriadis, G. Pantziou","doi":"10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580857","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580857","url":null,"abstract":"The major operational problem in one-way vehicle sharing systems is the vehicle stock imbalance problem. In this paper, we address this problem by proposing a new approach for dynamically allocating vehicles to users based on “incentivization” schemes which use reservations to coordinate supply-and-demand mismatches and price incentives for rewarding users, if they accept to pick up their vehicle from an oversupplied station and/or to drop off it to an under-supplied station. The system incentivizes users based on the priorities of vehicle relocations from station to station, taking into account the fluctuating demand for vehicles and parking places at different stations over time. We present two different schemes for incentivizing users to act in favour of the system. Both schemes consider budget constraints and are truthful and budget-feasible. We extensively evaluated our approach through simulations and observed significant improvements in the number of completed trips and system revenue.","PeriodicalId":171503,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)","volume":"22 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":"127366393","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":"Fixture identification from aggregated hot water consumption data","authors":"Yan Gao, Daqing Hou, Sean Banerjee","doi":"10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580738","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580738","url":null,"abstract":"Activity identification in smart housing utilizes smart meters to label consumption of utilities, such as cold and hot water, into human activities, such as cooking and cleaning. Typical approaches utilize a large array of high sampling rate sensors installed at each fixture location. This high density-high sampling rate approach raises computational challenges due to the volume of data generated over time. In this paper, we present a novel approach for identifying water usage patterns using a sparse array of sensors. Unlike traditional approaches which utilize data from individual fixtures, our approach identify fixtures by classifying the aggregated water usage from the kitchen sink, bathroom sink and shower. Furthermore, we model fixture and user characteristics to generate a set of higher level features that are used to identify individual fixtures. We evaluate our approach using a novel dataset of 12 apartments from the Clarkson University Smart Housing Project. Our results show that our approach reduces the number of fixture level smart meters from 7 to 3, while achieving an average accuracy between 70% to 80% for identifying hot water fixtures used in the kitchen sink, bathroom sink and shower.","PeriodicalId":171503,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)","volume":"52 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":"134643771","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}
Jorge Camargo, Carlos A. Torres, Oscar H. Martinez, Francisco Gómez
{"title":"A big data analytics system to analyze citizens' perception of security","authors":"Jorge Camargo, Carlos A. Torres, Oscar H. Martinez, Francisco Gómez","doi":"10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580846","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580846","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a big data analytics system that allows government to measure citizens' perception of security from the Twitter social network. The proposed system was built using a set of big data tools in order to collect, pre-process, classify, index, and visualize data. The system is able to detect whether a tweet is related to security, which is used to present in a heat map the perception of security of a city. A machine learning algorithm was trained to learn to recognize security characteristics in tweets. Results show that this system is a powerful tool to visually analyze how citizens perceive security.","PeriodicalId":171503,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)","volume":"64 13","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2016-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134004967","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":"Street lighting monitoring at cabinet level using open-source tools: A real scenario","authors":"A. Ferro","doi":"10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580842","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580842","url":null,"abstract":"This paper presents a street lighting (SL) monitoring solution working at cabinet level, developed at the Municipality of Trento, Italy. This solution is based on standard open-source software, self-developed tools and standard power meters. As it is based on open-source components, it is potentially independent on the power metering hardware and it does not require the payment of periodic fees. The developed solution has been implemented in a real large-scale scenario and proved to be an effective low-cost and low-impact tool that supports the maintenance of SL systems of the city of Trento by automatically detecting major faults and by allowing the analysis of electrical parameters at both global and cabinet-level scales.","PeriodicalId":171503,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)","volume":"93 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":"131625500","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}
Jonathan R. Tefft, N. Kirsch, Travis M. Adams, Tat S. Fu
{"title":"Wireless sensor system for detection of occupants to increase building energy efficiency","authors":"Jonathan R. Tefft, N. Kirsch, Travis M. Adams, Tat S. Fu","doi":"10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580796","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580796","url":null,"abstract":"Building climate control efficiency can be improved through accurate occupancy information. Schedules alone, particularly at a university with cancelled classes, may provide inaccurate occupancy information and climate control. This work proposes system of occupancy detection using wireless sensors to detect energy from cellular devices used universally by occupants. Cellular signals at the sensors are detected using Empirical Mode Decomposition (EMD), and the Received Signal Strength (RSS), time, channel and sensor information is sent to a fusion server. This server aggregates this information and applies a generalized version of Improved Prior Measurement Comparison (PMC+) to estimate occupant locations in the building. These locations are used directly to estimate occupancy. This occupancy information is sent to a Building Control system, which fuses the estimated occupancy information with schedule information to provide an occupancy estimate of improved accuracy. An improvement from 40% error with schedule alone to 15% error with fused information was observed, a significant improvement in occupancy accuracy.","PeriodicalId":171503,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)","volume":"52 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":"133086015","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}
Yun Wang, S. Ram, Faiz Currim, Ezequiel Dantas, Luiz Alberto Sabóia
{"title":"A big data approach for smart transportation management on bus network","authors":"Yun Wang, S. Ram, Faiz Currim, Ezequiel Dantas, Luiz Alberto Sabóia","doi":"10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580839","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISC2.2016.7580839","url":null,"abstract":"Urbanization in developing countries has resulted in increased demand for public transportation in the face of limited resources. This requires smart transportation management that allows urban planners to evaluate the impact of their policies and design targeted interventions. This paper proposes a three-layer management system to support smart urban mobility with an emphasis on bus transportation. In Layer-1, we apply novel Big Data techniques to compute bus travel time and passenger demands in an efficient and economical way. Layer-2 contains two analytic components: network analysis of passenger transit patterns and causal relationship analysis for bus delays. The third layer provides decision support in an interactive visualization environment. The proposed system is developed and validated in cooperation with the city of Fortaleza in Brazil. The use of generally available urban transportation data makes our methodology adaptable and customizable for other cities.","PeriodicalId":171503,"journal":{"name":"2016 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)","volume":"14 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":"115431457","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}