Dimitrios Karapiperis, A. Gkoulalas-Divanis, Vassilios S. Verykios
{"title":"Large-Scale Distributed Linkage of Records Containing Spatio-Temporal Information","authors":"Dimitrios Karapiperis, A. Gkoulalas-Divanis, Vassilios S. Verykios","doi":"10.1109/isc251055.2020.9239003","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/isc251055.2020.9239003","url":null,"abstract":"Spatio-temporal information is increasingly made available in modern data sets, together with traditional numerical and categorical attributes. Such information can play a vital role in deciding whether two records, coming from disparate data sources, correspond to the same real-world entity. Linkage of records containing spatio-temporal information requires novel linkage methods and is usually associated with a significant computational overhead. To reduce computational costs, in this paper, we propose the first Spark-based approach for distributed, on-demand, spatio-temporal linkage. Through experimental evaluation, we illustrate that our Spark-based approach achieves (on average) 35% performance improvement compared with the respective Map/Reduce-based implementation.","PeriodicalId":201808,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124625457","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}
Matheus M. Cruz, R. S. Oliveira, Augusto P. V. Beltrão, Paulo H. Q. Lopes, J. V. Filho, D. Trevisan, F. Bernardini
{"title":"Assessing the level of acceptance of a crowdsourcing solution to monitor infectious diseases propagation","authors":"Matheus M. Cruz, R. S. Oliveira, Augusto P. V. Beltrão, Paulo H. Q. Lopes, J. V. Filho, D. Trevisan, F. Bernardini","doi":"10.1109/ISC251055.2020.9239069","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISC251055.2020.9239069","url":null,"abstract":"This work presents a study for assessing the technology acceptance of a contact tracing app, also proposed by us, which is a hybrid crowdsensing application (opportunistic and participatory). The goal of the app is that users are notified if they were in contact with others infected. It also allows creating a heat map identifying streets, squares, and commercial locations to which contaminated users were, allowing more assertive hygiene actions and eliminating infectious disease outbreaks. Our methodology aimed on finding whether people would be willing to share their location, as well as their health issues related to COVID-19. It is composed by a survey for verifying the interest of the proposed application; the prototype of the application; and the use of Technology Acceptance Model (TAM). We can see that the vast majority of respondents to the first survey were interested in using a contact tracking application, even though they need to share their location and report when they become infected. In addition, the proposed RISCOVID application proved to be accepted for use by participants in the second survey.","PeriodicalId":201808,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)","volume":"106 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124972522","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}
Yifeng Pan, F. Liu, Ji Yang, Wei Zhang, Yong Li, Chun Sing Lai, Xiaomei Wu, L. Lai, Binzhuo Hong
{"title":"Broken Power Strand Detection with Aerial Images: A Machine Learning based Approach","authors":"Yifeng Pan, F. Liu, Ji Yang, Wei Zhang, Yong Li, Chun Sing Lai, Xiaomei Wu, L. Lai, Binzhuo Hong","doi":"10.1109/ISC251055.2020.9239095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISC251055.2020.9239095","url":null,"abstract":"Power lines are essential for electricity transmission between power plant and consumption point. Periodical inspection and assessment of the power line damages are critical to ensure the uninterrupted power delivery and grid stability. With the recent development of the unmanned aerial vehicles technology, the aerial images of power lines are adopted for broken strand detection. A huge challenge is the lack of the fatal but rare broken strand images. Thus, an oversampling strategy is proposed to increase the data diversity and reduce the data imbalance between the normal and broken lines. In addition, image background noises are filtered through image transformation to facilitate the anomaly detection. After that, five popular machine learning models are trained on four representative views of the aerial images. The experiments results show that the models can achieve a remarkable performance when they are trained and specialized for images from the same view. Second, the model can be generalized from one view to the other views sharing similar features, where the neural network solutions show remarkable knowledge transfer capability. Third, the impact of data size is discussed. More data does help promote the detection accuracy, but the performance gain diminishes in data size.","PeriodicalId":201808,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)","volume":"11 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115980431","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":"Personalized Road Networks Routing with Road Safety Consideration: A Case Study in Manchester","authors":"S. Hayes, Shen Wang, S. Djahel","doi":"10.1109/ISC251055.2020.9239085","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISC251055.2020.9239085","url":null,"abstract":"Urban road congestion is getting worse with the increasing population and car ownership. Traditional solutions, such as increasing road capacity and dynamic control and adaptation of traffic lights, rely heavily on infrastructure support, which limits their wider adoption and practicality. Vehicle navigation systems, such as Google Maps, TomTom, and AutoNavi, are widely used due to the popularization of smartphones. However, these systems normally provide routes with either shortest travel distance or fastest current travel speed, without any consideration of the drivers’ route preferences. For example, the safety level of a road is also very important as it often leads to non-recurring congestion that is more difficult to avoid. In this paper, we propose, implement, and test a personalized routing application that allows end-users to flexibly adjust their route preferences among travel distance, estimated travel time, and the safety level. We present the validation results of our application using a realistic dataset from the city of Manchester in England.","PeriodicalId":201808,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)","volume":"208 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128146948","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. M. García, Ruth P. Granados, M. E. Medina, Luis Ochoa, O. Mondragon, R. Cheu, N. Villanueva-Rosales, Víctor M. Larios-Rosillo
{"title":"Management of Real-Time Data for a Smart Flooding Alert System","authors":"V. M. García, Ruth P. Granados, M. E. Medina, Luis Ochoa, O. Mondragon, R. Cheu, N. Villanueva-Rosales, Víctor M. Larios-Rosillo","doi":"10.1109/ISC251055.2020.9239092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISC251055.2020.9239092","url":null,"abstract":"Information and technology are key elements in converting cities to Smart Cities. The ability to provide real-time information to residents for supporting their decision making is a primary characteristic of Smart Cities. Some of the challenges of providing real-time data are the availability of such data and the platforms to share it with residents in a meaningful way. In this work, an interdisciplinary, international team of researchers and students from the University of Guadalajara and the University of Texas at El Paso share their progress towards managing (i.e., collecting, processing, and sharing) real-time data during flooding events through the Smart Flooding Alert System (Smart FAS). Flooding events impact the day-to-day activities of city residents such as their mobility and affect the city’s infrastructure. The Smart FAS proposes the use of mobile devices and a wireless sensor network infrastructure for the collection of crowdsourced and sensor-generated data, respectively. The Smart FAS includes algorithms to calculate a metric that can be implemented for generating flood mobility routes that avoid flooded streets. Smart FAS uses metrics and mobile technologies for providing real-time information in a meaningful way to users. The proposed design and features of the Smart FAS proof-of-concept are evaluated using Smart Cities characteristics. The Smart FAS proof-of-concept can inform the development of further information and communication technologies (ICT) and Smart Cities platforms aiming to collect and share real-time data to city residents and stakeholders to support their decision-making process.","PeriodicalId":201808,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129060003","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":"Experimental Test Bed to Enable Realistic Evaluations for Direct Transfer Trip Relaying via Private Wireless LTE Communications","authors":"Emma Raszmann, K. Prabakar, B. Mather, Jim Li","doi":"10.1109/ISC251055.2020.9239080","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISC251055.2020.9239080","url":null,"abstract":"Increasing penetration levels of inverter-based distributed energy resources (DERs) in distribution systems are creating challenges in system operation. Currently, wired or proprietary wireless communications are used by advanced distribution management systems (ADMS) to detect the state of the system and control the DERs for optimal operation. Wireless communications are an alternative solution that can enable connectivity between the dispersed assets used in distribution system applications. This paper demonstrates an experimental test bed to enable the realistic evaluation of communications system characteristics for direct transfer trip (DTT) relaying of a photovoltaic inverter system using a private 900-MHz spectrum wireless LTE network. Private LTE network communications can be deployed to many remote DERs and other grid-edge devices to prevent costly infrastructure upgrades across distribution systems. In addition, this paper provides a framework for evaluating the impact of signal strength and network traffic in communications systems. The results shown develop a better understanding of the best practices for using LTE communications systems across multiple utility applications, such as protective relaying, voltage regulation, and supervisory control and data acquisition system messages.","PeriodicalId":201808,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)","volume":"2 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128393518","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}
Ciro Russo, Tobias Grossauer, Emanuele Nardone, Zafeiris Kokkinogenis, R. Rossetti
{"title":"How Smart and Green? A Simulation Model of Demand Cost Perception in the Electricity Market","authors":"Ciro Russo, Tobias Grossauer, Emanuele Nardone, Zafeiris Kokkinogenis, R. Rossetti","doi":"10.1109/ISC251055.2020.9239018","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISC251055.2020.9239018","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays energy demand is an issue regarding the vitality of cities and the welfare of citizens. The exponential growth of the cities and the consumers’ demand obliged the energy producer to find a modern solution to overcome these problems. The solution was found in decentralised structures all connected through the Internet and capable of allowing all actors in the system to interact together. In this study, the effect on the smart grid’s energy demand of different numbers of consumers, their behaviour and the energy price variations will be discussed. A few consumers’ behaviours will be illustrated and taken into account, how they react to the energy provider’s price schemes, impelling them into making a decision on whether to shift or not their demand according to their characteristic parameters and show how their expenditures and incomes for the electricity market operator change.","PeriodicalId":201808,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)","volume":"19 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125797319","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}
Farah Samouh, Veronica Gluza, Shadi Djavadian, Seyed Mehdi Meshkani, B. Farooq
{"title":"Multimodal Autonomous Last-Mile Delivery System Design and Application","authors":"Farah Samouh, Veronica Gluza, Shadi Djavadian, Seyed Mehdi Meshkani, B. Farooq","doi":"10.1109/ISC251055.2020.9239082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISC251055.2020.9239082","url":null,"abstract":"With the rapid increase in congestion, alternative solutions are needed to efficiently use the capacity of our existing networks. This paper focuses on exploring the emerging autonomous technologies for on-demand food delivery in congested urban cities. Three different last mile food delivery systems are proposed in this study employing aerial and ground autonomous vehicles technologies. The three proposed systems are: robot delivery system, drone delivery system and a hybrid delivery system. In the hybrid system the concept of hub-and-spoke network is explored in order to consolidate orders and reach more destinations in less time. To investigate the performance of the three proposed delivery systems, they are applied to the city of Mississauga network, in an in-house agent-based simulation in MATLAB. 18 Scenarios are tested differing in terms of demand and fleet size. The results show that the hybrid robot-drone delivery system performs the best with a fleet side of 25 robots and 15 drones and with an average preparation and delivery time less than the individual robot and drone system by 48 % and 42% respectively.","PeriodicalId":201808,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)","volume":"9 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130662824","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":"Balancing Taxi Distribution in A City-Scale Dynamic Ridesharing Service: A Hybrid Solution Based on Demand Learning","authors":"Jiyao Li, V. Allan","doi":"10.1109/ISC251055.2020.9239033","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISC251055.2020.9239033","url":null,"abstract":"In this paper, we study the challenging problem of how to balance taxi distribution across a city in a dynamic ridesharing service. First, we introduce the architecture of the dynamic ridesharing system and formally define the performance metrics indicating the efficiency of the system. Then, we propose a hybrid solution involving a series of algorithms: the Correlated Pooling collects correlated rider requests, the Adjacency Ride-Matching based on Demand Learning assigns taxis to riders and balances taxi distribution locally, the Greedy Idle Movement aims to direct taxis without a current assignment to the areas with riders in need of service. In the experiment, we apply city-scale data sets from the city of Chicago and complete a case study analyzing the threshold of correlated rider requests and the average online running time of each algorithm. We also compare our hybrid solution with multiple other methods. The results of our experiment show that our hybrid solution improves customer serving rate without increasing the number of taxis in operation, allows both drivers to earn more and riders to save more per trip, and all with a small increase in calling and extra trip time.","PeriodicalId":201808,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126037746","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}
Andi Sulasikin, Y. Nugraha, J. Kanggrawan, A. Suherman
{"title":"Forecasting for a data-driven policy using time series methods in handling COVID-19 pandemic in Jakarta","authors":"Andi Sulasikin, Y. Nugraha, J. Kanggrawan, A. Suherman","doi":"10.1109/ISC251055.2020.9239066","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISC251055.2020.9239066","url":null,"abstract":"The coronavirus diseases 2019 or COVID-19 has spread and infected millions of people around the world. The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has taken an unprecedented toll on residents, business, commerce, and activity in many cities, including Jakarta, where there have been more than twelve thousand confirmed cases as of July 2020. The details of how COVID-19 spreads in Jakarta are still complicated and not completely understood because the number of infections is large and continues to climb. This paper conducts a quantitative analysis of the COVID-19 pandemic spreading using Jakarta as a case study for the evaluation and decision-making process. In this paper, time series models such as the Holt's exponential smoothing and Auto-Regressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) were used to forecast the number of COVID-19 cases in Jakarta between March 1 and July 6. Recently, data exploration and comparative analysis of time series models have been conducted to determine the optimal models for forecasting COVID-19 confirmed cases. The result shows that ARIMA has the highest R-Squared (R2), and lowest (Mean Squared Error) MSE and Root Mean Squared Error (RMSE) is the best model to forecast the upcoming number of infected cases of COVID-19 in Jakarta. Such a model shows promising results and fitting predictions in supporting data-driven policy in public health and epidemiology.","PeriodicalId":201808,"journal":{"name":"2020 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)","volume":"150 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133849141","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}