Challenges for the Development of Sustainable Smart Cities
A special issue of Smart Cities (ISSN 2624-6511). This special issue belongs to the section "Internet of Things".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2022) | Viewed by 32146
Special Issue Editors
Interests: artificial intelligence; multi-agent systems; cloud computing and distributed systems; technology-enhanced learning
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Interests: smart cities; IoT; Industry 4.0; machine learning; artificial intelligence natural language processing; computational technologies; sentiment analysis
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Interests: smart cities; machine learning; IoT
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Smart cities have transformed how citizens relate to their environment and their city. Technology and the increasingly powerful connection offered by the Internet, as well as the generation and interpretation of data (big data), makes cities optimize their consumption, which translates into taking better care of the environment and reducing pollution.
Sensorization has played a fundamental role in the collection of data, which, once analyzed in IoT and smart cities platforms, has allowed for the optimization of multiple decisions in terms of governance and the optimization of resource consumption. This has also been the case with the integration and development of open data portals or research in techniques of artificial intelligence such as blockchain, edge computing/fog computing-based systems, IoT, and big data.
This Special Issue is devoted to promoting the investigation of the latest research in IoT and smart cities and their effective applications, to explore the latest innovations in guidelines, theories, models, ideas, technologies, applications, and tools to assess the impact of the approach, and to facilitate technology transfer.
The topics of interest for this Issue include but are not limited to the following:
- Smart cities challenges;
- Smart home and smart buildings;
- Open data and big data analytics;
- Smart health and emergency management;
- Smart environments;
- Smart manufacturing and logistics;
- Industry 4.0;
- Virtual organizations of agents;
- Human–machine interactions;
- Artificial intelligence;
- Industrial internet of things;
- Machine learning;
- Multi agents;
- Advanced building simulation;
- Energy and climate policy;
- Sustainable waste management.
Dr. Fernando De la Prieta Pintado
Dr. Alfonso González-Briones
Dr. Pablo Chamoso Santos
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- smart cities
- IoT
- smart mobility
- smart data
- smart cities challenges
- e-governance
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