SS05 - New Trends And Technologies For Smart Cities

• John Gialelis, University of Patras and Industrial Systems Institute, Greece
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• Ioakeim K. Samaras, Industrial Systems Institute
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• Stavros Koubias, University of Patras, Greece
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• Antonios Tzes, University of Patras, Greece
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Download SS05 Call For Papers (updated 2014-02-15)

Contents

The concept of the smart city has been widely discussed in recent years. Its aim is to improve citizens quality of life. In particular, it encompasses modern urban consumption and production factors in a common framework using information and communication technologies as the implementation vehicle.

Practical examples of the smart city concept include the urban traffic support based on traffic management and smart parking systems. Moreover, one other aspect is the smart economy which can be achieved by monitoring and controlling the energy usage in cities in a timely manner. Furthermore, the reduction of the air pollution by using environmental monitoring is of great importance in order to improve the quality of life. Also, smart agriculture (e.g. monitoring crops) can improve the production process while the monitoring of the waste water and its quality (measuring parameters such as PH, conductivity, etc.) can improve the health condition of the citizens. Finally, monitoring the health condition of elderly people is a necessity.

However, the concept of the smart city is yet far from being applied in cities without deficiencies. Many scientific issues must be addressed. For example, the application of computational intelligence (such as the utilization of fuzzy inference systems, deductive reasoning, expert systems, etc) with the purpose of improving the quality of life should be considered. Moreover, online pattern recognition techniques which can be applied in video surveillance of traffic scenes, or in estimating the motion of moving objects, etc, should be discovered. Finally, interoperability issues and the application of the concept of the ‘Internet of Things’ should be studied.

This special session will be focusing on (but not limited to) the following topics:

• New sensor technologies (such as wired cameras, wireless sensor motes, etc) for smart cities;
• Interoperability issues (OPC UA, Web Services, Publish/Subscribe mechanisms, Ontologies, etc);
• Field bus application in smart cities;
• High-Speed communication networks, Collaborative communication networks;
• Utilization of “Internet of Things” concept in smart cities (Web Services technologies, 6LoWPAN architectures, etc);
• Energy management;
• Security, Privacy and Dependability in smart cities.

Submission of Papers

Papers are to be submitted electronically. For further details, please consult the conference web pages.

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