{"title":"The gap between cycling practices and mapping services for smart cycling","authors":"C. Carvalho, R. Jose","doi":"10.1109/ISC255366.2022.9922089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISC255366.2022.9922089","url":null,"abstract":"Cycling is gaining priority in urban mobility policies and smart cities should be prepared to offer smart cycling services that help to promote such transition. A key element for many of those services is a Geographic Information System and particularly a road network model that represents all the possible roads in a city. The main contribution of this work is the identification and characterization of an important gap between the GPS traces corresponding to the real routes made by cyclists and their representation in the road network model of Open Street Map (OSM). More specifically, there are parts of the GPS traces that cannot be mapped into the road network of OSM, because they have no matching representation. We call these segments, ad-hoc segments. To develop a deeper understanding about this problem, we collected data from a specially designed route and analysed how the respective trace was mapped into OSM. We identified all the occurrences of ad-hoc segments and categorized them according to their root cause. The results suggest that the main overall cause of these problems is directly linked with limitations of the road network model, such as missing roads. This seems to indicate that road network models, as commonly used in OSM, do not properly address the specificities of cycling, or micro-mobility in general. This problem has a major impact in the quality of the services provided to urban cyclists and in the value of the data available for micro-mobility planning and management.","PeriodicalId":277015,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129666873","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":"Machine and Deep Learning using Remote Sensing to reach zero emission cities: A Survey","authors":"Daniele Diodati, Andrea Cruciani, Antonio Natale","doi":"10.1109/ISC255366.2022.9921928","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISC255366.2022.9921928","url":null,"abstract":"Reducing the city emissions through focus actions is essential to fight climate change. The advancement of technology has opened new opportunities to support organizations and governments during mitigation actions. With this contribution, we offer an in-depth evaluation of how machine learning, deep learning, and remote sensing technologies can support the transition to zero-emission cities. The paper explores different application domains, describing recent works useful for energy assessment, facilities monitoring, laws enforcement and energy savings actions. Applying these solutions on a large base offers a real opportunity to develop new policies and operations for cities and planet Earth sustainability.","PeriodicalId":277015,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129670117","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}
Sonia Hassan, Drishty Sobnath, E. Snell, Olufemi Isiaq
{"title":"Data as Partner (DAP): Integrating Automation with Daily Living","authors":"Sonia Hassan, Drishty Sobnath, E. Snell, Olufemi Isiaq","doi":"10.1109/ISC255366.2022.9922431","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISC255366.2022.9922431","url":null,"abstract":"This paper addresses the need to infuse automation of data management in daily lives and how beneficial it can be for people with Disabilities (PwD) and the general public. This paper presents the idea of making Data a Partner (DAP) so that data can act as a partner to humans; learning from its actions and decisions, making it self-sufficient to take its own decisions by learning from a human. This paper also presents a theoretical model called DAPT, which focuses on four sections of the survey conducted to assess the acceptability ratio in masses. Statistical analysis was performed on the survey conducted using SPSS. The survey's outcome, which gathered 875 responses, clarifies that 69.6% of the respondents voted that infusing automation in daily lives leads the way to the future of data management by automation. The survey concluded that infusing automation into daily lives can be helpful, especially for people with disabilities (PwD), such as those with visually impaired people.","PeriodicalId":277015,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128738830","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":"Analyzing Riding Activities on the World's Longest Continuous Cycling Path Using Non-Intrusive IoT Sensors","authors":"F. Filali, Fatima Tayeb, Hamadi Chihaoui","doi":"10.1109/ISC255366.2022.9922573","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISC255366.2022.9922573","url":null,"abstract":"On February 2020, Qatar entered the Guinness World Record by opening the world's longest continuous cycling track developed by the Public Works Authority - Ashghal. Gaining insights of the usage of the so called Olympic Cycling Track (OCT) such as biker count, travel time, speed, riding periodicity, and location origin, allows for the development of better cycling user experience, operational planning and maintenance. This paper attempts to conduct this analysis based on data collected from WaveTraf™ a sensing system that anonymously detects and tracks the movement of Bluetooth and WiFi-enabled devices. Data from four WaveTraf IoT sensors, deployed along the track, is cleaned, prepossessed and analysed to reveal riding patterns in the OCT track. An effective data cleaning technique was applied to detect and clean the noise in the data caused by detected devices from roads close of the OCT track. Analysis results demonstrate clear seasonality and trend in the riding pattern which was proven to be associated to the weather conditions as well as the normal work schedules.","PeriodicalId":277015,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)","volume":"126 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124539305","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 IoT Platform for the Development of Low-cost Emergencies Detection Units based on Soft Sensors","authors":"Franklin Oliveira, Dan Costa, Flávio Assis","doi":"10.1109/ISC255366.2022.9922105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISC255366.2022.9922105","url":null,"abstract":"For centuries, emergencies have been a recurring situation in cities. Natural or human-induced emergency situations can cause infrastructural damages in cities, potentially resulting in injuries, death, and economic losses. In this context, the use of Internet of Things technologies can support more efficient detection of emergencies such as floods, landslides, fire, and terrorism, being possible to alert people and trigger mitigation actions on time. Therefore, this work proposes an IoT platform for the development of sensors-based emergencies detection units, comprising a hardware architecture and a Real Time Operating System based firmware. By combining the concept of Soft Sensors with the parallelism of tasks on multi-core microcontrolers, as well as taking into consideration low-cost and energy efficient demands, it is expected an improvement in the development of such units in smart cities.","PeriodicalId":277015,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)","volume":"67 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121049488","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}
K. Admassu, Katherine A. Flanigan, Wentao Wang, C. Wolf, J. Lynch
{"title":"Rapid-to-Deploy Wireless Water Pressure Sensors for the Assessment of Water Distribution Systems","authors":"K. Admassu, Katherine A. Flanigan, Wentao Wang, C. Wolf, J. Lynch","doi":"10.1109/ISC255366.2022.9922156","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISC255366.2022.9922156","url":null,"abstract":"Drinking water systems require efficient operations to ensure high-quality water is delivered to customers with an adequate level of pressure. Municipalities adopt methods to analyze system operations to ensure they are meeting operational objectives. For example, pressure and flow sensors are commonly deployed but such sensors are spatially sparse in the distribution system. Hydraulic models are also employed to simulate the performance of drinking water systems, with operational sensor data used to refine the models for greater accuracy. However, there remains the need for a data collection method that can be easily deployed to collect measurements that densely map pressures across the drinking water system. This paper describes the design and validation of a low-cost, rapid-to-deploy wireless water pressure sensor designed to monitor water pressures in a municipal drinking water system. The sensors attached to a household hose spigot, register their GPS location, and communicate average measured pressures using a cellular modem. The system was validated using the water distribution system in Benton Harbor, Michigan to map areas suspected of low operational pressures. The study proved the ease and reliability of the monitoring system while providing reliable pressure data that was used to model the performance of the monitored system.","PeriodicalId":277015,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)","volume":"64 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121565666","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":"Smartification of urbanized cities, approach and proposal","authors":"L. Ferrero, D. Cannata, Alessandro Ceccon","doi":"10.1109/ISC255366.2022.9922296","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISC255366.2022.9922296","url":null,"abstract":"When smartification deals with existing urban areas, the approach could not be the one used for green field. The user should be the main player, with its daily pain points and with the perception of urban areas that he feels as citizen. The present paper offers an approach and an application of it to a real city. The project is a proposal, that the authors built on the city of Turin, taking into consideration 5 areas and proposing a mobility mode for each of them. The holistic approach grants connection and complementary among the 5 area projects. The purpose is not the creation of a smart city as a tag, as a technological achievement for its own sake; it is completely focused on daily life of users and on how to make it more seamless, more enjoyable, with higher quality.","PeriodicalId":277015,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)","volume":"98 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115803465","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 City Data in Urban Wellbeing Estimation","authors":"Tzirath Perez Oteiza, P. Mooney, Liadh Kelly","doi":"10.1109/ISC255366.2022.9921806","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISC255366.2022.9921806","url":null,"abstract":"Mental wellbeing is a global health concern. Within the urban context, it is well understood that factors associated with urban living can impact individuals' wellbeing. For example, the relationship between wellbeing and environmental factors, such as air quality, has been shown. We postulate that such factors can be automatically derived from data sources available in smart cities and used, as contextual cues to form automatic indicators of the wellbeing levels of individuals within a city. In this paper we provide a realistic vision for this new approach to mental wellbeing estimation for an urban population, focusing on contextual cues associated with environmental information and green infrastructure. Outcomes from initial investigations are discussed and a roadmap for the future is presented.","PeriodicalId":277015,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)","volume":"33 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125729242","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":"Green and robust optimal design of Single Frequency Networks by min-max regret and ACO-based learning","authors":"Fabio D’Andreagiovanni, Hicham Lakhlef, Antonella Nardin","doi":"10.1109/ISC255366.2022.9922401","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISC255366.2022.9922401","url":null,"abstract":"Notwithstanding the introduction of brand new 5G-based wireless services, single frequency networks supporting digital television and radio broadcasting still represent a major source of telecommunications services in modern smart cities. In this work, we propose a robust optimization model for the green design of second generation single frequency networks based on the digital television DVB-T standard, whose ongoing adoption requires to reconfigure and redesign existing networks. Our robust model aims at protecting design solutions against the data uncertainty that naturally affect propagation of signals in a real environment. For reducing conservatism of solutions, we refer to a heuristic min-max regret paradigm and to solve the resulting problem we propose to adopt a hybrid exact-heuristic algorithm based on the combination of an Ant Colony Optimization-like learning procedure, exploiting tight formulations of the optimization model, with an exact large neighborhood search. Results of computational tests considering realistic instances show that the heuristic min-max regret approach can produce solutions characterized by a substantially lower price of robustness without sacrificing protection against data uncertainty.","PeriodicalId":277015,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)","volume":"10 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"133964725","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 City Governance and the challenge of digital platforms within the public sector","authors":"Viviana Vaira","doi":"10.1109/ISC255366.2022.9922452","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISC255366.2022.9922452","url":null,"abstract":"This paper focuses on a compared analysis of the ongoing “platformization” and on the so-called Government-as-a-Platform (GaaP) approach applied to Smart City-paradigm. Specifically, the digital transformation of the public sector is observed under the light of the main challenges that have been introduced by digital platforms for traditional local governance models.","PeriodicalId":277015,"journal":{"name":"2022 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)","volume":"51 3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-09-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129361135","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}