{"title":"Distributed energy sharing algorithm for Micro Grid energy system based on cloud computing","authors":"Wenwei Su, Yan Shi","doi":"10.1049/smc2.12049","DOIUrl":"10.1049/smc2.12049","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The reduction of adverse environmental effects and the socioeconomic advantages of renewable energy systems promote greater integration of distributed energy systems into the traditional electrical networks. A new type of sharing economy is emerging with the sharing of energy resources to reduce transaction costs by using platform services in the cloud. Given the obstacles posed by the legacy system and various forms of renewable energy integration, Distributed Energy and Micro Grids (DE-MG) are an efficient means of raising the quality of energy services. Rules for microgrid scalability, maintaining a budget, and security can make this difficult. Consumers are better at receiving the best renewable energy allotment price using a cloud-based Peer-to-Peer (P2P) network. The main objective is to lower the daily energy cost of microgrid power in commercial buildings. In the proposed work, cloud-based P2P for peer-Multi Agent System (p-MAS) optimization techniques are used to reduce system peak and integrated Demand Response (DR) with Energy Management System (EMS) in a commercial MG. To fill knowledge gaps about how various power market architectures and individual decision-making processes impact local interactions and market outcomes, cloud-based P2P for Modelling Leveraging Agents (MLA) is used for bill calculation. A performance measure is finally created for cost evaluation and reliability to measure the social benefits of cloud-based P2P models for exchanging energy. For various price environments and resource types, a comparison between the proposed cloud-based P2P model with an existing P2P model for exchanging energy is provided. The primary use of a distributed P2P model for exchanging power in a microgrid is to reduce electricity costs and increase grid environment reliability.</p>","PeriodicalId":34740,"journal":{"name":"IET Smart Cities","volume":"6 3","pages":"225-236"},"PeriodicalIF":2.1,"publicationDate":"2023-01-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/smc2.12049","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46285573","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A bibliometric and scientometric review of research on crowdsourcing in smart cities","authors":"Youtao Jiang, Bowen Guo, Xunda Zhang, Hongxin Tian, Yue Wang, Ming Cheng","doi":"10.1049/smc2.12048","DOIUrl":"10.1049/smc2.12048","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The smart city model for operation and governance of modern cities requires huge quantities of data about people and the environment to support related applications, and crowdsourcing is effective for collecting and processing such data. Numerous reviews of the literature on crowdsourcing and smart cities as separate research fields have been published. Research on the intersection of the two is relatively new and lacks a systematic literature review. This study applies bibliometric and scientometric research methods and the research tools to study 367 related publications retrieved from the Web of Science database. Keyword co-occurrence analysis was conducted to find the distribution of publications, research cooperation, and major research areas. Document co-citation analysis was used to examine the domain knowledge structure, and citation burst detection was used to identify trends in research in this topic area. The analysis results clarify the research content and evolutionary context and reveal emerging research trends.</p>","PeriodicalId":34740,"journal":{"name":"IET Smart Cities","volume":"5 1","pages":"1-18"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2022-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/smc2.12048","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43119860","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Francisco J. Martinez, Chaker Abdelaziz Kerrache, Abderrahmane Lakas
{"title":"Guest Editorial: Drones for smart cities","authors":"Francisco J. Martinez, Chaker Abdelaziz Kerrache, Abderrahmane Lakas","doi":"10.1049/smc2.12047","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/smc2.12047","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Smart cities and unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) are two relatively recent concepts and also hot topics in research. The combination of these two technologies is expected to propel their capabilities even further for enabling revolutionary applications that will improve our quality of life. This Special Issue focuses on novel work done on the application of UAVs where state-of-the-art technologies in sensing, information dissemination, communications, and artificial intelligence (AI) are applied within the context of smart cities.</p><p>Over the years, we have witnessed the joint efforts of academia and industry that have led to not only the introduction of novel applications but also the improvement of communications and the use of AI-based approaches intended to make use of UAVs in future smart cities. However, many issues remain unsolved. Further research efforts are required in the fields of drone networking, sensing, and autonomous driving; including information sharing and delivery, providing common understanding platforms, smart sensing, and also new communication paradigms for the advancement of drone systems within smart cities.</p><p>This Special Issue aimed to investigate the above-mentioned open issues related to ‘Drones for Smart Cities’ and collected three (03) high-quality papers that were accepted after a rigorous review process.</p><p>A review of some of the technical difficulties with aerial coordination and interaction that multirotor UAVs still encounter was presented by Fabra et al. [<span>1</span>]. In order to achieve collision-free flights and swarm-based missions, they highlighted recent advancements that have been published in the literature and presented some recent contributions. The study in this work allows the authors to offer insight into the issues that still need to be resolved in order to make it possible for UAV-based solutions to support sustainable aerial services.</p><p>The study of Popescu et al. [<span>2</span>] examined the potential hovering locations based on each hovering location's unique constraints, such as flight time and coverage, in order to increase connection and ensure data rates in the 5G network. They presented analytical bounds on the connection expansion needs for fixed enhanced mobile broadband infrastructure serving vehicle networks, where both infrastructures and vehicular networks are analysed using stochastic and fractal geometry as a model for urban environments. Overall, the results presented a realistic stochastic communication model for investigating the growth of 5G in smart cities. The computation of precise bounds and the identification of specific behaviours served to highlight the appeal of such a creative framework (such as the characterisation of a threshold). It is also a start in the direction of creating a framework for ‘smart city modeling’ that may be used in different urban contexts.</p><p>Finally, Rathee et al. [<span>3</span>] developed a trustworthy drone-based ","PeriodicalId":34740,"journal":{"name":"IET Smart Cities","volume":"4 4","pages":"229-230"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2022-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ietresearch.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/smc2.12047","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"137967825","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
IET Smart CitiesPub Date : 2022-11-22DOI: 10.1016/c2019-0-00992-2
F. Martinez, C. A. Kerrache, Abderrahmane Lakas
{"title":"Drones in Smart-Cities","authors":"F. Martinez, C. A. Kerrache, Abderrahmane Lakas","doi":"10.1016/c2019-0-00992-2","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/c2019-0-00992-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":34740,"journal":{"name":"IET Smart Cities","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2022-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46444602","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 analysis on the preliminary benefits of aquaculture smart aeration control","authors":"Chi-Yuan Lin, Yu-Tang Shen, Yong-An Tsai, Chao-Chien Chen","doi":"10.1049/smc2.12046","DOIUrl":"10.1049/smc2.12046","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Aquaculture in Taiwan is characterised by high breeding densities of up to five times higher than the normal breeding densities. Pollution in the breeding environment and its adjacent waters have exacerbated the occurrence of disease outbreaks in fish, shrimp and shellfish, which greatly impacted the economy. Therefore, the parameters pertaining to water quality status, especially dissolved oxygen are particularly important. In addition to the rising cost of labour, land, infrastructure and other materials, the capital needed to engage in aquaculture has risen, whereas the profits have decreased. This limits the growth of aquaculture and fisheries. To overcome this problem, it is essential to shift towards efficient and ecologically precise smart aquaculture. The application of industrialised and smart systems in the vertical diffusion and in-depth integration of aquaculture facilitates decision-making, improves the level of intelligence in breeding, and enhance aquaculture's contribution to Taiwan's economy.</p>","PeriodicalId":34740,"journal":{"name":"IET Smart Cities","volume":"5 1","pages":"35-40"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2022-11-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/smc2.12046","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45948034","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Smart in city performance: More to practical life than hardware and software","authors":"Faten Hatem","doi":"10.1049/smc2.12045","DOIUrl":"10.1049/smc2.12045","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Visions of Smart cities claim to offer better liveability and sustainability through information and communication technology. This study promotes the importance of focussing on spatial aspects and affective factors that impact smart urbanism. It seeks better to inform city governance, spatial planning, and policymaking to focus on what Smart does and what it can achieve for cities in terms of performance rather than on using the notion for prestige purposes. Also, the study recognises the importance of establishing a new meaning for urban progress by moving beyond improving the city's basic services to enhance the actual human experience, which is essential for developing authentic smart cities. The topic presents four overlooked areas: the efficiency paradox, the social aspect, connectedness with nature, and utilising untapped resources. The argument does not invite exploring these themes in silos; it collectively examines smart cities in performance, arguing that there is more to the practical life of smart cities than software and hardware inventions. The research uses a case study approach, presenting Milton Keynes as a living example to learn from while engaging with various methods for data collection, including multi-disciplinary semi-structured interviews, field observations, and data mining.</p>","PeriodicalId":34740,"journal":{"name":"IET Smart Cities","volume":"5 1","pages":"49-63"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2022-11-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/smc2.12045","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48263365","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Satu Paiho, Pekka Tuominen, Jyri Rökman, Markus Ylikerälä, Juha Pajula, Hanne Siikavirta
{"title":"Opportunities of collected city data for smart cities","authors":"Satu Paiho, Pekka Tuominen, Jyri Rökman, Markus Ylikerälä, Juha Pajula, Hanne Siikavirta","doi":"10.1049/smc2.12044","DOIUrl":"10.1049/smc2.12044","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article explores ways to leverage city data in smart cities and how data virtualisation can help overcome some of the barriers and create new opportunities for data usage. By combining data sources, data virtualisation can help overcome technical and regulatory challenges, and create new value. The topic was approached from three perspectives: the exploitation of city data, the potential for data virtualisation to utilise city data, and the detection of gaps for future use of city data. Finnish cities are interested in utilisation of the rich data they have within the city and new data that is gathered by different actors. However, there is a gap between the potential and the current situation. When city data is generated continuously from different functions, the scattered data storages can be utilised efficiently with data virtualisation. The city itself, commercial operators, governments and individuals all benefit about the deeper understanding of city functions. Sharing data from different systems and sectors creates opportunities for measuring also other but financial benefits. In the case of city bicycles studied in the city of Kuopio, expanded usage of the bicycles was seen as benefiting citizens' wellbeing and health.</p>","PeriodicalId":34740,"journal":{"name":"IET Smart Cities","volume":"4 4","pages":"275-291"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2022-11-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ietresearch.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/smc2.12044","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42641118","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Pathways to reducing the negative impact of urban transport on climate change","authors":"Marcin Seredynski","doi":"10.1049/smc2.12043","DOIUrl":"10.1049/smc2.12043","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Transition to net zero greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from urban transport requires strategies improving energy efficiency and contributing to energy conservation. Efficiency gains can be achieved via combination of new technologies, such as electrification, connectivity, and automation. Energy conservation focuses on reducing the total miles travelled by private cars. Supporting modal shift to public transport (PT) is the essential element of that strategy. It starts with policy support enabling time and space prioritisation of PT vehicles. Next, the emerging technologies can optimise performance and comfort of PT vehicles by making the best use of the assigned resources. This article shows how these technologies can reduce GHG emissions directly, as well as indirectly by making PT an attractive choice boosting patronage. A case study illustrating the improvement of the environmental performance of full hybrid buses via connectivity and geofencing is given.</p>","PeriodicalId":34740,"journal":{"name":"IET Smart Cities","volume":"5 1","pages":"41-48"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2022-10-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/smc2.12043","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46903397","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Smart cities and innovations: Addressing user acceptance with virtual reality and Digital Twin City","authors":"David Michalik, Per Kohl, Anton Kummert","doi":"10.1049/smc2.12042","DOIUrl":"10.1049/smc2.12042","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The transformation into smart cities is imminent to meet the rising number of urban problems and challenges. Digital technologies offer great potential to develop smart solutions, especially in the areas of public administration, energy, infrastructure and mobility. For the successful diffusion, the acceptance of the individual is a crucial part, which can be addressed by an immersive experience along with the personal collection of insights of the innovation. However, at the same time a paradox arises as many new developments are still in the making and therefore, are not yet available to the public. Immersive virtualisation technologies such as Virtual Reality (VR) offer great potential to solve this problem. In this study, the usability of VR technology to address individual's innovation barriers in general and to explore the use of emerging digital twin cities (DTC) is analysed, as they provide an ideal basis for the customised creation of immersive VR-applications. Although several themes and applications regarding the potential of DTCs have been addressed in literature, their explicit use in the field of acceptance research has not been pursued. Therefore, a new methodology is introduced and first implementations and results are presented and discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":34740,"journal":{"name":"IET Smart Cities","volume":"4 4","pages":"292-307"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ietresearch.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/smc2.12042","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44216821","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Connecting flying backhauls of unmanned aerial vehicles to enhance vehicular networks with fixed 5G NR infrastructure","authors":"Dalia Popescu, Philippe Jacquet, Bernard Mans","doi":"10.1049/smc2.12034","DOIUrl":"10.1049/smc2.12034","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This paper investigates moving networks of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles to extend connectivity and guarantee data rates in the 5G by analysing possible hovering locations based on limitations such as flight time and coverage. The authors provide analytic bounds on the requirements in terms of connectivity extension for vehicular networks served by fixed Enhanced Mobile BroadBand infrastructure, where both vehicular networks and infrastructures are modelled using stochastic and fractal geometry as a model for urban environment. The authors prove that assuming <i>n</i> mobile nodes (distributed according to a hyperfractal distribution of dimension <i>d</i><sub><i>F</i></sub>) and an average of <i>ρ</i> Next Generation NodeB (gNBs), distributed like a hyperfractal of dimension <i>d</i><sub><i>r</i></sub> if <i>ρ</i> = <i>n</i><sup><i>θ</i></sup> with <i>θ</i> > <i>d</i><sub><i>r</i></sub>/4 and letting <i>n</i> tending to infinity (to reflect megalopolis cities), then the average fraction of mobile nodes not covered by a gNB tends to zero like <math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>O</mi>\u0000 <mfenced>\u0000 <msup>\u0000 <mi>n</mi>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mo>−</mo>\u0000 <mfrac>\u0000 <mfenced>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <msub>\u0000 <mi>d</mi>\u0000 <mi>F</mi>\u0000 </msub>\u0000 <mo>−</mo>\u0000 <mn>2</mn>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mfenced>\u0000 <msub>\u0000 <mi>d</mi>\u0000 <mi>r</mi>\u0000 </msub>\u0000 </mfrac>\u0000 <mfenced>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mn>2</mn>\u0000 <mi>θ</mi>\u0000 <mo>−</mo>\u0000 <mfrac>\u0000 <msub>\u0000 <mi>d</mi>\u0000 <mi>r</mi>\u0000 </msub>\u0000 <mn>2</mn>\u0000 </mfrac>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mfenced>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </msup>\u0000 </mfenced>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation> $Oleft({n}^{-frac{left({d}_{F}-2right)}{{d}_{r}}left(2theta -frac{{d}_{r}}{2}right)}right)$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math>. Interestingl","PeriodicalId":34740,"journal":{"name":"IET Smart Cities","volume":"4 4","pages":"239-254"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2022-09-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://ietresearch.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/smc2.12034","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47891038","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}