{"title":"Facilitation of Smart City and Community Technology Convergence","authors":"M. Burns, S. Rhee","doi":"10.1109/SCOPE-GCTC.2018.00013","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCOPE-GCTC.2018.00013","url":null,"abstract":"The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has led a series of efforts designed to propel consensus toward reusable, standards-based smart city solutions through open collaborations with worldwide participation. This paper describes the novel strategy and methods used in these activities.","PeriodicalId":233750,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Science of Smart City Operations and Platforms Engineering in Partnership with Global City Teams Challenge (SCOPE-GCTC)","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124362215","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":"StormSense: A Blueprint for Coastal Flood Forecast Information & Automated Alert Messaging Systems","authors":"J. Loftis, S. Katragadda, S. Rhee, Cuong Nguyen","doi":"10.1109/SCOPE-GCTC.2018.00009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCOPE-GCTC.2018.00009","url":null,"abstract":"Increased availability of low-cost water level sensors communicating through the Internet of Things (IoT) has expanded the horizons of publicly-ingestible data streams available to modern smart cities. StormSense is an IoT-enabled inundation forecasting research initiative and an active participant in the Global City Teams Challenge seeking to enhance flood preparedness in the smart cities of Hampton Roads, VA for flooding resulting from storm surge, rain, and tides. In this study, we present the a blueprint and series of applicable protocols through the use of the new StormSense water level sensors to help establish a regional resilience monitoring network. In furtherance of this effort, the Virginia Commonwealth Center for Recurrent Flooding Resiliency's Tidewatch tidal forecast system is being used as a starting point to integrate the extant (NOAA) and new (USGS and StormSense) water level sensors throughout the region, and demonstrate replicability of the solution across the cities of Newport News, Norfolk, and Virginia Beach within Hampton Roads, VA. StormSense's network employs a mix of ultrasonic sonar and radar remote sensing technologies to record water levels and develop autonomous alert messaging systems through the use of three separate cloud environments. One to manage the water level monitoring sensors and alert messaging, one to run the model and interface with the post-processed results, and one to geospatially present the flood results.","PeriodicalId":233750,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Science of Smart City Operations and Platforms Engineering in Partnership with Global City Teams Challenge (SCOPE-GCTC)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130966541","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":"Smart and Secure Cities and Communities","authors":"Scott Tousley, S. Rhee","doi":"10.1109/SCOPE-GCTC.2018.00008","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCOPE-GCTC.2018.00008","url":null,"abstract":"Cities and communities around the world are increasingly deploying advanced technologies such as Internet of Things and Cyber-Physical Systems for improved efficiency, convenience, safety, and quality of life. The Global City Teams Challenge (GCTC) program, led by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, has successfully nurtured hundreds of projects led by municipal governments and technology providers with the goal of helping build smart infrastructure through advanced technologies. However, security and privacy for smart city solutions have not been generally considered a top priority by the smart city community. To address this issue, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate has joined forces with NIST in the 2018 round of GCTC to encourage smart cities and communities to embrace security and privacy as a primary concern.","PeriodicalId":233750,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Science of Smart City Operations and Platforms Engineering in Partnership with Global City Teams Challenge (SCOPE-GCTC)","volume":"96 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122491974","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}
Hemant Purohit, S. Nannapaneni, A. Dubey, P. Karuna, Gautam Biswas
{"title":"Structured Summarization of Social Web for Smart Emergency Services by Uncertain Concept Graph","authors":"Hemant Purohit, S. Nannapaneni, A. Dubey, P. Karuna, Gautam Biswas","doi":"10.1109/SCOPE-GCTC.2018.00012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCOPE-GCTC.2018.00012","url":null,"abstract":"The Web has empowered emergency services to enhance operations by collecting real-time information about incidents from diverse data sources such as social media. However, the high volume of unstructured data from the heterogeneous sources with varying degrees of veracity challenges the timely extraction and integration of relevant information to summarize the current situation. Existing work on event detection and summarization on social media relates to this challenge of timely extraction of information during an evolving event. However, it is limited in both integrating incomplete information from diverse sources and using the integrated information to dynamically infer knowledge representation of the situation that captures optimal actions (e.g., allocate available finite ambulances to incident regions). In this paper, we present a novel concept of an Uncertain Concept Graph (UCG) that is capable of representing dynamic knowledge of a disaster event from heterogeneous data sources, particularly for the regions of interest, and resources/services required. The information sources, incident regions, and resources (e.g., ambulances) are represented as nodes in UCG, while the edges represent the weighted relationships between these nodes. We then propose a solution for probabilistic edge inference between nodes in UCG. We model a novel optimization problem for the edge assignment between a service resource to a region node over time trajectory. The output of such structured summarization over time can be valuable for modeling event dynamics in the real world beyond emergency management, across different smart city operations such as transportation.","PeriodicalId":233750,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Science of Smart City Operations and Platforms Engineering in Partnership with Global City Teams Challenge (SCOPE-GCTC)","volume":"43 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124115224","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}
Yogesh D. Barve, H. Neema, Stephen A. Rees, J. Sztipanovits
{"title":"Towards a Design Studio for Collaborative Modeling and Co-Simulations of Mixed Electrical Energy Systems","authors":"Yogesh D. Barve, H. Neema, Stephen A. Rees, J. Sztipanovits","doi":"10.1109/SCOPE-GCTC.2018.00011","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCOPE-GCTC.2018.00011","url":null,"abstract":"Despite the known benefits of simulations in the study of mixed energy systems in the context of smart grid, the lack of collaboration facilities between multiple domain experts prevents a holistic analysis of smart grid operations. Current solutions do not provide a unified tool-chain that supports a secure and collaborative platform for not only the modeling and simulation of mixed electrical energy systems, but also the elastic execution of co-simulation experiments. To address above limitations, this paper proposes a design studio that provides an online collaborative platform for modeling and simulation of smart grids with mixed energy resources.","PeriodicalId":233750,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Science of Smart City Operations and Platforms Engineering in Partnership with Global City Teams Challenge (SCOPE-GCTC)","volume":"37 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123717578","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}
Dongfang Yang, John M. Maroli, Linhui Li, Menna El-Shaer, Bander A. Jabr, K. Redmill, Füsun Özguner, Ümit Özguner
{"title":"Crowd Motion Detection and Prediction for Transportation Efficiency in Shared Spaces","authors":"Dongfang Yang, John M. Maroli, Linhui Li, Menna El-Shaer, Bander A. Jabr, K. Redmill, Füsun Özguner, Ümit Özguner","doi":"10.1109/SCOPE-GCTC.2018.00007","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCOPE-GCTC.2018.00007","url":null,"abstract":"In the shared space scenario where pedestrian crowds and autonomous vehicles coexist, the transportation efficiency of the shared space can be improved by predicting the intention of the crowd and adjusting the driving strategy of the autonomous vehicles. This study proposes a framework that consists of the detection of individual pedestrians in a crowd via both on-vehicle and infrastructure sensors, the prediction of the crowd motion given the vehicle driving strategy, and the evaluation of the transportation efficiency in shared spaces. Methods for pedestrian detection and scenario prediction are introduced. Several aspects for improving transportation efficiency in shared spaces are discussed. Preliminary results of pedestrian detection on individual sensors and a simulation case study for estimating the desired time for an autonomous vehicle to pass the a shared space scenario demonstrate the potential of the proposed framework.","PeriodicalId":233750,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Science of Smart City Operations and Platforms Engineering in Partnership with Global City Teams Challenge (SCOPE-GCTC)","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128951448","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":"SDN-ERS: A Timely Software Defined Networking Framework for Emergency Response Systems","authors":"M. Rahouti, Kaiqi Xiong, Tommy Chin, Peizhao Hu","doi":"10.1109/SCOPE-GCTC.2018.00010","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/SCOPE-GCTC.2018.00010","url":null,"abstract":"Emergency data must be delivered in a timely fashion to assist rescue effort and recovery after a crisis. The data are often classified based on urgency for delivery priority. In this paper, we explore the feasibility of adopting Software Defined Networking (SDN) to support emergency response where the SDN framework is proposed to minimize the end-to-end delay for emergency data delivery depending on data urgency. We further leverage real-world emergency data to evaluate the proposed SDN framework on the Global Environment for Network Innovations (GENI) testbed. Our experiments demonstrate that the proposed framework is effective and efficient in delivering emergency data according to data priority. Specifically, our SDN framework improves the end-to-end-delay for the delivery of different priority emergency services, ranging from 10% to 25%. The proposed framework is also applicable to other cyber-physical systems.","PeriodicalId":233750,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Science of Smart City Operations and Platforms Engineering in Partnership with Global City Teams Challenge (SCOPE-GCTC)","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114266579","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}