IoT-Based 3D Visualisation Platform for an Efficient Management of the Smart City Ecosystem

Nowadays, most of the urban developments are based on ICT (Information and Communication Technology) solutions which can increase the socio-economic development the quality of life. Smart Cities have been pointed out as the most promising applications of Internet of Things (IoT). Despite all standardisation processes, building a Smart City IoT platform remains a challenge. The continuous changes in IoT environment require the system to adopt new technologies dynamically. To address this challenge, our proposal is the deployment of the CitiSim platform which can simulate 3D models for events processing and supports different Operating Systems (OS) enabling new business models. The main advantage of the CitiSim platform is that it enables Big Data analytics tools to monitor data coming from heterogeneous sources. The primary objective is the identification of the environmental, social, and economic indicators used in order to build smart urban models that contribute to the process of decision making for improving land use, transport, energy, and user needs, classified and evaluated with respect to the criteria of a specific district.