Smart cities: event everywhere

The research attempts to provide a big picture from the literature through a Systematic Literature Review about the smart city and the existing standards topics for interchanging data through Smart City Apps. Additionally a prototype was created to analyze one of the standards found in the SL

Smart cities: event everywhere

The research attempts to provide a big picture from the literature through a Systematic Literature Review about the smart city and the existing standards topics for interchanging data through Smart City Apps. Additionally a prototype was created to analyze one of the standards found in the SL

Analysis and assessment of a knowledge based smart city architecture providing service APIs

Abstract The main technical issues regarding smart city solutions are related to data gathering, aggregation, reasoning, data analytics, access, and service delivering via Smart City APIs (Application Program Interfaces). Different kinds of Smart City APIs enable smart city services and applications, while their effectiveness depends on the architectural solutions to pass from data to services for city users and operators, exploiting data analytics, and presenting services via APIs. Therefore, there is a strong activity on defining smart city architectures to cope with this complexity, putting in place a significant range of different kinds of services and processes. In this paper, the work performed in the context of Sii-Mobility smart city project on defining a smart city architecture addressing a wide range of processes and data is presented. To this end, comparisons of the state of the art solutions of smart city architectures for data aggregation and for Smart City API are presented by putting in evidence the usage semantic ontologies and knowledge base in the data aggregation in the production of smart services. The solution proposed aggregate and re-conciliate data (open and private, static and real time) by using reasoning/smart algorithms for enabling sophisticated service delivering via Smart City API. The work presented has been developed in the context of the Sii-Mobility national smart city project on mobility and transport integrated with smart city services with the aim of reaching a more sustainable mobility and transport systems. Sii-Mobility is grounded on Km4City ontology and tools for smart city data aggregation, analytics support and service production exploiting smart city API. To this end, Sii-Mobility/Km4City APIs have been compared to the state of the art solutions. Moreover, the proposed architecture has been assessed in terms of performance, computational and network costs in terms of measures that can be easily performed on private cloud on premise. The computational costs and workloads of the data ingestion and data analytics processes have been assessed to identify suitable measures to estimate needed resources. Finally, the API consumption related data in the recent period are presented

A Non-Profit Online Marketplace Platform of Travel Agencies in Turkey: TURSAB Rota

Travel and tourism industry have been inevitably affected by the information and communication technologies. Almost all the components in this industry have experienced some serious changes, transformations and impacts. These alterations bring together some opportunities and challenges in its very nature. Consumer demand and consumer behaviour have also been subject to change. That’s why new online e-commerce applications and new business models came into the scene. Business to Business (B2B) sales platforms are one of the examples of this change. There exist some studies about the private sector profit oriented B2Bs in the literature. Nevertheless, there is no example in the field of non-profit basis associations. The basic objective of the current study is to introduce such an example in Turkey founded by TURSAB (Association of Turkish Travel Agencies). The legal fundamentals of TURSAB, the foundation process of Rota platform, the contents of Rota and the member travel agencies’ website integration types were examined in accordance with this purpose. The introductory texts and data of this preliminary research were provided from the team members working for Rota platform. The estimations of these team members are mainly the internationalization of the platform in due course and the extension of authentic tours

EnMonitor: Experimentation over Large-scale Semantically Annotated Federated IoT data environment

Submitted to WWW 2018 Demo TrackIoT applications are usually built on top of proprietary platforms that collect data from IoT devices. Furthermore, most applications rely on proprietary datasets, coming from their own sources. Thereby needing to deal with issues like interoperability and heterogeneity in the data. A solution is to add another layer (a platform in the middle that addresses the above-mentioned issues) and then build applications that use data made available via such platforms. As a proof of concept, we present EnMonitor, a prototype application, that is built on top of one such platform, called FIESTA-IoT. The application provides citizens with an understanding of the environment they live in with both local and global surrounding view

Open Data and tourism. Implications for tourism management in Smart Cities and Smart Tourism Destinationss

La irrupción de Internet y el progresivo despliegue de las tecnologías de la información y comunicación (TIC), ha generado interesantes oportunidades para la planificación y gestión de las ciudades y destinos turísticos del siglo XXI. En este escenario, los entornos urbanos producen una gran cantidad de datos como consecuencia directa del uso intensivo de las TIC. Este trabajo se aproxima al concepto de Open Data desde dos hipótesis. Por una parte, que su aplicación en el ámbito del turismo puede generar un ecosistema innovador que mejore la experiencia turística, gracias al diseño de productos y servicios TIC. Y por otra, que su grado actual de aplicación en turismo es bajo y necesita de medidas de apoyo. Con el fin de corroborarlas, se plantean dos objetivos. En primer lugar, y desde una vertiente teórico-conceptual, profundizar en la terminología de Open Data, conceptos relacionados y sus implicaciones para la gestión turística. En segundo lugar, conocer su grado de aplicación actual en el turismo, para proponer recomendaciones que favorezcan su uso. Con este fin, se analizan los conjuntos de datos abiertos en turismo de las ciudades de la Red Española de Ciudades Inteligentes (RECI). Este trabajo constituye un punto de partida en la investigación de las relaciones entre Open Data y turismo.The emergence of the Internet and the spread of information and communication technologies (ICT) have generated interesting opportunities for the planning and management of cities and tourism destinations of the twenty-first century. In this scenario, urban environments produce a large amount of data as a direct consequence of the intensive use of ICTs. This study addresses the concept of Open Data from two assumptions. On the one hand, that its application in the field of tourism can generate an innovative ecosystem that improves the tourist experience, thanks to the design of ICT products and services. And, on the other, that its current degree of application in tourism is low and needs support measures. In order to corroborate these assumptions, two objectives are proposed. First, and from a theoretical-conceptual perspective, to deepen the terminology of Open Data, related concepts and their implications for tourism management. Second, to determine their current degree of application in tourism, in order to propose recommendations that favor their use. To this end, the Open Data sets in tourism of the Spanish Network of Smart Cities (RECI) are analyzed. This study constitutes a starting point in the research of the relationships between Open Data and tourism.El presente trabajo se enmarca en el proyecto de investigación “Análisis de procesos de planificación aplicados a ciudades y destinos turísticos inteligentes. Balance y propuesta metodológica para espacios turísticos: Smart Tourism Planning”. Proyecto CSO2017-82592-R del Programa Estatal de I+D+i del Ministerio de Economíá, Industria y Competitividad

3cixty: Building comprehensive knowledge bases for city exploration

International audiencePlanning a visit to Expo Milano 2015 or simply touring in Milan are activities that require a certain amount of a priori knowledge of the city. In this paper, we present the process of building such comprehensive knowledge bases that contain descriptions of events and activities, places and sights, transportation facilities as well as social activities, collected from numerous static, near-and real-time local and global data providers, including hyper local sources such as the Expo Milano 2015 official services and several social media platforms. Entities in the 3cixty KB are deduplicated, interlinked and enriched using semantic technologies. The 3cixty KB is empowering the ExplorMI 360 multi-device application, which has been officially endorsed by the E015 Technical Management Board and has gained the patronage of Expo Milano in 2015, thus has offered a unique testing scenario for the 20 million visitors along the 6 months of the exhibit. In 2016-2017, new knowledge bases have been created for the cities of London, Madeira and Singapore, as well as for the entire French Cote d'Azur area. The 3cixty KB is accessible at https: //kb.3cixty.com/sparql while ExplorMI 360 at https://www.3cixty.com and in the Google Play Store and Apple App Store

Poslovna inteligencija i otvoreni podaci: Mogućnosti za izvođenje vrednih informacija u oblasti turizma

This paper aims to introduce the concept of data analysis which could easily be implemented by anybody involved in the subject matter with basic IT knowledge and skills. The paper is divided into two parts, the first of which presents an overview of related research from two points of view: (1) publications which refer to the analysis, or the overall use of open data from the tourism domain and (2) publications which use business intelligence tools to analyse tourism data. Results indicate that there is a significant number of publications but none of them combines the two issues in the field of tourism (open data and business intelligence). The second part refers to the possibilities of using Power BI, the business intelligence tool for analysing available open data about tourism in Serbia.Publishe

Citizen Science and Smart Cities

The report summarizes the presentations, discussions, and conclusions of the Citizen Science and Smart Cities Summit organised by the European Commission Joint Research Centre on 5-7th February 2014. In the context of the Summit, the label Citizen Science was used to include both citizen science projects, and others that are about user-generated content, not necessarily addressing a scientific process or issues. The evidence presented by 27 different projects shows the vitality and diversity of the field but also a number of critical points: • Citizen science project are more than collecting data: they are about raising awareness, building capacity, and strengthening communities. • Likewise, smart cities are not only about ICT, energy and transport infrastructures: Smart cities are about smart citizens, who participate in their city’s daily governance, are concerned about increasing the quality of life of their fellow-citizens, and about protecting their environment. Technology may facilitate, but is no solution per se. • Unfortunately to date there seems to be little synergy between citizen science and smart cities initiatives, and there is little interoperability and reusability of the data, apps, and services developed in each project. • It is difficult to compare the results among citizen science, and smart cities projects or translate from one context to another. • The ephemeral nature of much of the data, which disappear short after the end of the projects, means lack of reproducibility of results and longitudinal analysis of time series challenging, if not impossible. • There are also new challenges with respect to the analytical methods needed to integrate quantitative and qualitative data from heterogeneous sources that need further research. • Building and maintaining trust are key points of any citizen science or smart city project. There is a need to work with the community and not just for, or on, the community. It is critical not just to take (data, information, knowledge) but to give back something that is valued by the community itself. The development of citizen science associations in Europe and the US are important developments that may address some of the points above. There are also actions through which the European Commission Joint Research Centre can make an important contribution: • Map citizen science and smart cities projects, and generate a semantic network of concepts between the projects to facilitate search of related activities, and community building. • Provide a repository for citizen science and smart cities data (anonymised and aggregated), software, services, and applications so that they are maintained beyond the life of the projects they originate from, and made shareable and reusable. • Develop regional test beds for the analysis and integration of social and environmental data from heterogeneous sources, with a focus on quality of life and well-being. • Undertake comparative studies, and analyse issues related to scaling up to the European dimension. • Support citizen science and smart cities projects with the JRC knowledge on semantic interoperability, data models, and interoperability arrangements. • Partner with the European Citizen Science Association, and contribute to its interoperability activities. • Work towards making the JRC, and the European Commission, a champion of citizen participation in European science.JRC.H.6-Digital Earth and Reference Dat