Smart city: The state of the art, datasets, and evaluation platforms

While smart city concept holds great promise of boosting living standards through effective management and utilization of scarce resources in cities, the unavailability of real-world datasets and test environments to evaluate designed models and techniques have slowed research progress. In this paper, we review existing research endeavors and develop a tool for extracting real-time smart city related data. We also conduct some simulations and evaluations in smart energy, which will be an important application in smart cities.