Advances in the IoT and Smart Cities
A special issue of Applied Sciences (ISSN 2076-3417). This special issue belongs to the section "Computing and Artificial Intelligence".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 20 November 2024 | Viewed by 13289
Special Issue Editors
Interests: big data; underlying operating systems; database systems; visualization; cloud computing
Interests: software; web and service engineering methods for pervasive computing; IoT and smart cities
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to the unprecedented use of devices, sensors and actuators, and wireless communication in all kinds of cyberphysical systems. The wide use of the IoT and the view of the IoT as a silver bullet introduced a wide range of immediate challenges, but also continually surfacing opportunities. The explosion of the IoT, fueling the data deluge, has become one of the primary sources of big data, thus providing a fine-grained digital view on the physical world. With the use of data analytics, and enabling technologies such as AI, machine learning, and deep learning, the data extracted are used by smart systems to optimize the use of infrastructure and resources.
Smart cities have emerged as the realization of many applications and solutions, across all sectors of society. Smart city solutions are fueled by a combination of disruptive technologies and social innovation with the use of data and innovative technologies. Smart cities aim to make better use of services, optimize resources, and solve public and social problems, thus achieving a higher quality of life by adding intelligence to the urban world. Today, smart sustainable cities are aiming to become smarter and more sustainable, by measuring their progress and performance in achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), while ensuring that they meet the needs of present and future generations.
In this context, the Special Issue in Applied Sciences on the IoT and smart cities invites researchers to submit original research contributions in all major areas, which include but are not limited to the theory and fundamental research, real-world applications, software development, and engineering of the IoT and smart cities:
- IoT architectures and cyberphysical systems (CPS);
- IoT sensors and actuators;
- IoT services, applications, and platforms;
- IoT challenges in security, reliability, and privacy;
- Smart sustainable city services, applications, and platforms.
Dr. Christos Markides
Dr. Achilleas Achilleos
Dr. Georgia Kapitsaki
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- Internet of Things (IoT)
- smart sustainable cities
- IoT and smart city platforms
- smart city services and applications
- smart sustainable city enabling technologies
- intelligent infrastructure
- smart city governance
- big data analytics
- data security and privacy
- sensors and actuators
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