A. Figueras, J. L. D. L. R. Esteva, S. Esteva, X. Cufí
{"title":"Robot team in the improvement of the neighborhood","authors":"A. Figueras, J. L. D. L. R. Esteva, S. Esteva, X. Cufí","doi":"10.1109/ISC2.2018.8656874","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISC2.2018.8656874","url":null,"abstract":"This paper addresses the maintenance of urbanized areas in automatic form, collecting data from the streets using mobile autonomous robots. The only supervision of the system by human operator is necessary to avoid the robots be abandoned in case of malfunction. Is a team of robots to do the job in efficient manner and minimizing the time in a pedestrians zone. A prior organization task is necessary to distribute the travel for each robot, to cover all desired area without interference between robots, the k-CPP problem is analyzed to solve this situation.","PeriodicalId":344652,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)","volume":"32 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123982617","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":"Technical Strategies for Real-time Geocoding in Healthcare","authors":"B. Rivera, M. Hoffman","doi":"10.1109/ISC2.2018.8656931","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISC2.2018.8656931","url":null,"abstract":"The open data movement provides city, state and national data that can be useful in providing healthcare providers with contextual information about their patients. For example, data about social determinants of health or environmental exposures, the “envirome”, can help clinicians adapt their patient conversations. Enabling health care providers with real-time access to this information during a patient encounter is an important step toward “Smart Cities”. Often open data sources are keyed by geospatial parameters such as census tract. Integrating this contextual information into electronic health record workflows is an optimal strategy to bring envirome data to the point of care but requires careful consideration to comply with privacy regulations. We discuss three technical strategies for geocoding patient addresses and review the benefits and challenges of each. One novel strategy separates the IP address of the site requesting geocoded data from the transmission to a geocoding service, offering a unique mitigation to concerns about using cloud-based services.","PeriodicalId":344652,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)","volume":"25 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121156789","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":"Integration of Renewable Energy into Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure","authors":"Tanya Shiramagond, Weijen Lee","doi":"10.1109/ISC2.2018.8656981","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISC2.2018.8656981","url":null,"abstract":"Electric vehicles have great potential to help reduce the United States’ oil consumption and greenhouse gas emissions if used on a large scale. However, consumers have shown concern with the dependability of electric vehicles due to their limited charging infrastructure and long charging times. Furthermore, the electrification of transportation allows for the ability to be powered by renewable energy. Renewable energy would reduce gas emissions even further, but the sources of energy are known to be intermittent. This paper proposes a distributed battery storage system to close the gap between renewable energy production and consumers’ demand. In this system, electric vehicle charging stations, instead of charging vehicles directly from the grid and energy sources, would store energy in batteries. The proposed system seamlessly integrates renewable energy as it compensates for its intermittent nature by allowing energy to be charged in proportion to the rate electricity is produced. The objective of the proposed system is to integrate renewable energy without compromising energy reliability at electric vehicle charging stations.","PeriodicalId":344652,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"124416102","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":"New Urban Mobility Algorithm Based On User Experience","authors":"Meriem Joundi, Mahdi E. L. Alaoui, A. Hayar","doi":"10.1109/ISC2.2018.8656955","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISC2.2018.8656955","url":null,"abstract":"Nowadays, getting around has become an essential aspect of everyday life. The urban road traffic of the city of Casablanca the same all the other big cities, is at the heart of many issues related to economy and environment. In order to find a way around these problems, several vehicles routing algorithms have been proposed to compute the shortest path between two given locations in a road traffic network, and considerable efforts have been made to improve routing algorithms, but existing approaches have forgotten that there are several factors that affect the efficiency of the algorithm. In this work we propose a new vehicle routing algorithm taking into account multiple traffic environment factors based on the user experience. Subsequently, we have highlighted the important role of these traffic factors and their impact to select rapid paths. To achieve it, we have conducted a comparison between the proposed algorithm and Dijkstra.","PeriodicalId":344652,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)","volume":"27 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125651863","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":"Exploring the Attack Surfaces in Blockchain Enabled Smart Cities","authors":"Xueping Liang, S. Shetty, Deepak K. Tosh","doi":"10.1109/ISC2.2018.8656852","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISC2.2018.8656852","url":null,"abstract":"With the development of Internet-of-Things (IoT) technology, the notion of smart city concept comes to reality. Smart city covers a broad range of scenarios for citizens in their everyday life, such as smart home, smart traffic and smart healthcare. However, considering the IoT technology itself still under security threats, smart city security and resilience is a critical factor for truly embracing the smart age of everyday life. Current technology has a difficult time providing security in smart city architectures because of its decentralized and distributed nature. As a recently new technology, Blockchain uses a decentralized and distributed security approach to adding security to a decentralized and distributed IoT system. This paper presents a blockchain based solution to provide security and resilience in smart cities and analyze potential security concerns in the integration of blockchain technology into smart city infrastructure. Each of the concerns are discussed in detail.","PeriodicalId":344652,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)","volume":"215 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121723034","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 Cities and the Dire Need for a Course Correction","authors":"J. Aráuz","doi":"10.1109/ISC2.2018.8656829","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISC2.2018.8656829","url":null,"abstract":"Smart city strategies use digital technologies to improve the efficiency and efficacy of city services and enhance the livability of urban areas. Conceptually smart cities are not novel. For decades, cities have employed technology based strategies to identify effective means of improving the quality of life of its inhabitants. The current renewed efforts to create smart cities, therefore, do not come from new long-term goals set by municipalities around the globe. The movement that embraces smart cities today is fueled by the efforts of municipalities trying to understand how to take advantage of the advances in digital technology and the ubiquitous availability of wireless connectivity to achieve previously identified objectives. Urban planning research has clearly identified the challenges cities face today. However, the ongoing academic research efforts in the communications area are largely unrelated to these challenges. Based on this premise, this work first visits the realities that municipalities confront in an urbanizing world. Thereafter, it highlights the current efforts in research and argues how these are not clearly related to the current needs of municipalities around the world. It then visits the current standardization efforts around smart cities. Finally, the article proposes a new interdisciplinary path that interested researchers could take advantage of to effectively help cities from developed or developing nations mitigate the imminent crisis fueled by urbanization.","PeriodicalId":344652,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)","volume":"109 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134340777","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":"Optimization of Handover Events for an Efficient Resource Allocation in an Internet of Things Network Through Computational Simulation Based on The Moivre-Laplace Theorem","authors":"H. Nieto-Chaupis","doi":"10.1109/ISC2.2018.8656740","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISC2.2018.8656740","url":null,"abstract":"When the Internet of Things (IoT) network is established and running in large cities is crucial to measure the quality of service (QoS) associated to it. This clearly demands that the wireless communications connection have competitive network capabilities such as efficient radio resource allocation which should be coherently optimized in order to maintain an acceptable QoS and allow users to perform soft and hard handover without major limitations. In this paper we measure the through-put for uplink and downlink events through a computational scheme based essentially in a mathematical formalism derived from the Moivre-Laplace theorem as well as the Shannon’s entropy. All this formalism and the computational methodology are done under the assumption that users are carrying out interference each other. We have estimated probabilities for accessing the network including in our methodology the blocking probabilities expected to be realized in hybrid networks that are running IoT with unexpected saturation of requests for cells occupation. From the results of this paper the throughput error of signal to interference ratio for a concrete scenario of mobile users trying to occupy a cell in a base station have been of order of 5%.","PeriodicalId":344652,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116976448","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":"Growing Smart Cities on an Open-Data-Centric Cyber-Physical Platform","authors":"J. Pinto, João Pedro Dias, R. Rossetti","doi":"10.1109/ISC2.2018.8656989","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISC2.2018.8656989","url":null,"abstract":"Considering an environment that consists of several services, applications and platforms, each present entity produces a certain amount of data. With so many sources of data, there are a number of things bound to exist: different formats of information, redundancy and no consistent standards of information. In environments as these, the collaboration between different entities creates an opportunity for innovation, where data interoperability allows for the re-use of information, the possibility of different services taking advantage of other third-party sources and the development of new businesses from existing information. This, however, is only possible if there is some sort of interoperability between the data, a way for it to be transmitted from entity to entity, always with the possibility of creating value with its manipulation and consumption. This paper exposes the work done in the development of a platform focused on data, looking into its forms of representation and how to solve the problems caused by the ever existing necessity of data interoperability between systems. The possibility for maintaining and creating Open Data Ecosystems is also analysed in the scope of the proposed platform.","PeriodicalId":344652,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)","volume":"22 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"129535160","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":"The Zero Energy Ambition in Districts’ Planning : The Case study of Leuze in Belgium","authors":"Sesil Koutra, V. Becue, C. Ioakimidis","doi":"10.1109/ISC2.2018.8656813","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISC2.2018.8656813","url":null,"abstract":"Since the last decades, the rapid urban growth, the scarcity of natural resources and land and the economic activities raise direct and indirect environmental impacts on modern cities. Europe intensifies its efforts towards the strategic energy planning with policy targets among its members. In this paper, we study the zero energy ambition and its application in districts as an integral part of the strategic urban planning of future agglomerations. A theoretical approach is introduced towards this direction to deal with the challenge of reducing the energy demand on city districts. A critical review among the sustainable and the zero energy criteria is performed in the case of Leuze (Belgium).","PeriodicalId":344652,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)","volume":"16 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"127205588","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":"Optimal Multi-type Sensor Placements in Gaussian Spatial Fields for Environmental Monitoring","authors":"Chenxi Sun, Yangwen Yu, V. Li, J. Lam","doi":"10.1109/ISC2.2018.8656676","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1109/ISC2.2018.8656676","url":null,"abstract":"As citizens are increasingly concerned about the surrounding environment, it is important for modern cities to provide sufficient and accurate environmental information to the public for decision making in the era of smart cities. Due to limited budget, we often need to optimize the sensor placement in order to maximize the overall information gain according to certain criteria. Existing work is primarily concerned with single-type sensor placement; however, the environment usually requires accurate measurements of multiple type of environment characteristics. In this paper, we focus on the optimal multi-type sensor placement in Gaussian spatial field for environmental monitoring. We study two representative cases: the one-with-all case when each station is equipped with all types of sensors and the general case when each station is equipped with at least one type of sensor. We propose two greedy algorithms accordingly, each with a provable approximation guarantee. We evaluate the proposed approach via an application in air quality monitoring scenario in Hong Kong and experiment results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed approach.","PeriodicalId":344652,"journal":{"name":"2018 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference (ISC2)","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130051566","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}