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The emergence of highly promising and potent technologies has enabled the transition of ordinary objects into smart artifacts-providing wider connectivity of digitized entities that can facilitate the building of connected cities. This book provides readers with a solid foundation on the latest technologies and tools required to develop and enhance smart cities around the world.

The book begins by examining the rise of the cloud as the fundamental technology for establishing and sustaining smart cities and enterprises. Explaining the principal technologies and platform solutions for implementing intelligent cities, the book details the role of various technologies, standards, protocols, and tools in establishing flexible homes and the buildings of the future.

Examines IT platforms and tools from various product vendors
Considers service-oriented architecture and event-driven architecture for smart city applications
Explains how to leverage big data analytics for smart city enhancement and improved decision making
Includes case studies of intelligent cities, smart homes, buildings, transports, healthcare systems, and airports
The authors explore the convergence of cloud computing and enterprise architecture and present valuable information on next-generation cloud computing. They also cover the various architectural types, including enterprise-scale integration, security, management, and governance.

The book concludes by explaining the various security requirements of intelligent cities as well as the threats and vulnerabilities of the various components that form the basis of the intelligent city framework, including cloud, big data, Internet of Things, and mobile technologies.



Envisioning Intelligent Cities

Introduction

Unfolding the Smarter Planet Vision

The Need for Intelligent Cities

City-Specific Challenges

Trickling Urbanization Challenges

The Vast Potentials of Smart Cities

City Transformation Strategy

Infrastructure Optimization

System Infrastructure

The Adoption of Versatile Technologies

The Assimilation of Architectures

Services Are Everywhere

Devices Are Connected and Cyber-Enabled for People-Centric Services

Process Excellence

Make Sense Out of Data for Big Insights

The Key Trends in IT Toward Smart Cities

The Shift Toward People IT

The Era of Smart Computing

Smarter Environments

The Need for Cloud-Enablement

A Few Smart City Use Cases

Smart City Infrastructure and Platform Solutions

Smart City Infrastructures

Leading Smart City Platforms

The Context-Aware Framework for Smart CityApplications

Data Collection and Cleansing

Data Storage

Data Interpretation

Cloud-Based

Data Dissemination

Conclusion

References


Mobile Technologies and Applications for Intelligent Cities

Introduction

Evolution of Mobile Wireless Technologies

Mobile Application Development Platforms

Challenges of Intelligent Cities and Solutions Offered by Mobile Wireless Networks and Devices

Mobile Payments and Ticketing

Intelligent Energy Conservation Using Mobile Devices

Analysis and Commercial Insights

Drivers for Mobile BI Adoption

Key Trends in Mobile BI

Steps to Get Started with Mobile BI

Mobile Healthcare

Wireless Fleet Management

Enabling Mobile Technologies for an Intelligent City

Mobile Augmented Reality

Conclusion

References


The Role and Relevance of Software-Defined Cloud Infrastructures

Introduction

About Cloud Technology

Key Motivations for Cloud-Enabled Environments

Why Cloud Technology Is Being Aggressively Pursued by Worldwide Governments

A Look at Cloud-Inspired Enterprise Transformations

The Emergence of Cloud Environments

Energy Optimization

Cloud-Enabled and Hosted Smarter City Applications

A Cloud-Enabled Context-Aware Framework for Smarter Environments

A Sample Use Case

Cloud-Based Smarter Home Applications

Cloud-Enabled Smart Grids

A Cloud-Based Monitoring Framework for Smart Homes

Cloud-Inspired Smarter Healthcare Services

Sensor-Cloud Integration for Smarter Cities

Social and Sensor Data Fusion in Cloud

Integrating Sensors with Cloud Using Dynamic Proxies

The Next-Generation Hybrid Clouds

The Compelling Use Cases for Next-Generation Hybrid Clouds

Use Cases-Computation and Actionable Insights

Storage Use Cases

Data Dissemination

Software-Defined Infrastructures and Software-Defined Environments

Building Blocks of Software-Defined Data Centers

Software-Defined Networking

The Key Motivations for SDN

Tending Toward Network Virtualization

The Need of SDN for the Cloud

Software-Defined Storage

Cloud-Based Big Data Storage

Key Characteristics of Software-Defined Storage

Conclusion

References


Big Data Analytics for Real-Time City Insights

Introduction

Data Analytics and Intelligent Cities

The Prominent Sources of Big Data

Describing the Big Data World

Big Data Characteristics

A Perspective on Big Data Computing

Why Big Data Computing?

The Application Domains

Describing Big Data Analytics

The Big Trends of BDA

BDA Use Cases

Machine Data Analytics by Splunk®

Open Data for Next-Generation Cities

Edge Data for Cities of the Future

Edge Data for Smarter Cities

Edge Data for Smart Retailers

Edge Data for Smart Automobiles

Edge Data for Smart Manufacturing

Edge Data for Facilities and Asset Management

Integrated BDA Platforms

Software-Defined Infrastructures for BDA

Civitas: The Smart City Middleware

Hitachi Smart City Platform

Data Collection

Data Analysis

Application Coordination

BDA Frameworks and Infrastructure

Apache Hadoop Software Framework

NoSQL Databases

Conclusion

References


The Internet of Things for Connected and Cognitive Cities

Introduction

Envisioning the IoT Era

Emerging IoT Trends

Deeper Digitization Toward Smart Objects

The Growing Device Ecosystem

Software-Defined Cloud Infrastructures

Big Data Analytics

The IoT Reference Architecture

Smart City Communication Architecture

Network Architectures for IoT Applications

IP-Based Connectivity Models

Prominent IoT Technologies

The IoT: The Key Results

The Advantages of the IoT Concept for Smart Cities

The Co-Creation of IoT-Enabled Services for Smarter Cities

Examples of IoT-Inspired Services Co-Created and Tested

The Role of Advanced Sensing in Smart Cities

Sensors Everywhere and in Everything

Sensing as a Service for Cities of the Future

Popular IoT/M2M Applications

A Typical IoT Application

Health of Buildings

Smart Energy

Smart Healthcare

Smart Home Security

Smart Cargo Handling

Smart Traffic Management

Smart Inventory and Replenishment Management

Smart Cash Payment

Smart Tracking

Smart Displays

Smart Asset Management

Air Quality

Noise Monitoring

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