Smart cities at the forefront of the future internet

Smart cities have been recently pointed out by M2M experts as an emerging market with enormous potential, which is expected to drive the digital economy forward in the coming years. However, most of the current city and urban developments are based on vertical ICT solutions leading to an unsustainable sea of systems and market islands. In this work we discuss how the recent vision of the Future Internet (FI), and its particular components, Internet of Things (IoT) and Internet of Services (IoS), can become building blocks to progress towards a unified urban-scale ICT platform transforming a Smart City into an open innovation platform. Moreover, we present some results of generic implementations based on the ITU-T’s Ubiquitous Sensor Network (USN) model. The referenced platform model fulfills basic principles of open, federated and trusted platforms (FOTs) at two different levels: the infrastructure level (IoT to support the complexity of heterogeneous sensors deployed in urban spaces), and at the service level (IoS as a suit of open and standardized enablers to facilitate the composition of interoperable smart city services). We also discuss the need of infrastructures at the European level for a realistic large-scale experimentally-driven research, and present main principles of the unique-in-the-world experimental test facility under development within the SmartSantander EU project.Although only a few names appear on this paper, this work would not have been possible without the contribution and encouragement of many people, particularly all the enthusiastic team of the SmartSantander project, partially funded by the EC under contract number FP7-ICT-257992

Journal of Telecommunications and Information Technology, nr 3

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NSCL na plataforma ETSI M2M

Mestrado em Engenharia de Computadores e TelemáticaThe evolution of every day gadgets into smart-devices able to react to their surrounding environment is enabling the development of novel applications aiming revolutionize the industry related to this technology. Currently much attention has been given to standardizing IoT and M2M in order to build an interoperable foundation that will enable the growth of the future Internet, where devices will communicate without, or at least minimizing, human intervention. In this dissertation is presented in first place issues such as: heterogeneity, scalability, addressing and the first approach taken by the ETSI M2M standard. Subsequently, is presented the ETSI M2M vision and high-level architecture together with current work in this area. Finally an implementation of the network middleware is going to be presented along with further testing.A evolução dos dispositivos do dia a dia em dispositivos inteligentes capazes de reagir ao ambiente que os rodeia está a permitir a criação de novas aplicações que visam revolucionar a industria. Atualmente tem-se dado muita atenção a estandardização da Internet das Coisas e comunicações máquinaa- máquina, com o objetivo de construir uma fundação interoperável que permitirá o crescimento futuro da Internet, onde os dispositivos irão comunicar sem, ou com mínima, intervenção humana. Nesta dissertação é apresentado em primeiro lugar requisitos como heterogeneidade, escalabilidade, endereçamento e a primeira abordagem feita pelo standard M2M do ETSI. Consequentemente, é a apresentada a visão e a arquitetura e o trabalho realizado nesta área. Por fim é apresentada a implementação da componente de rede realizada nesta dissertação juntamente com os respetivos testes