Abstract
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) is at the heart of the smart city approach, which constitutes the next level of cities’ and communities’ development across the globe. Thereby, ICT serves as the gluing component enabling different domains to interact with each other and facilitating the management and processing of vast amounts of data and information towards intelligently steering the cities’ infrastructure and processes, engaging the citizens and facilitating new services and applications in various aspects of urban life—e.g., supply chains, mobility, transportation, energy, citizens’ participation, public safety, interactions between citizens and the public administration, water management, parking and many other cases and domains. Hence, given the fundamental role of ICT in cities in the near future, it is of paramount importance to lay the ground for a sustainable and reliable ICT infrastructure, which can enable a city/community to respond in a resilient way to upcoming challenges, whilst increasing the quality of life for its citizens. A structured way of providing and maintaining an open and resilient ICT backbone for a city/community is constituted by the concept of an Open Urban Platform. Therefore, the current article presents the activities and developments necessary to achieve a resilient, standardized smart city, based on Open Urban Platforms (OUP) and the way these serve as a blueprint for each city/community towards the establishment of a sustainable and resilient ICT backbone.
Highlights
Smart cities and communities are at the forefront of innovation, research and development in modern societies
This paper summarizes a series of research studies relating to the systematic development of urban Information and Communication Technology (ICT) and smart cities, which are based on the ongoing development and standardization activities conducted by Fraunhofer FOKUS
Afterwards, we laid the fundamentals for further discussions by defining the terms sustainability, smart cities and sustainable smart cities according to which we continued developing a set of relevant concepts on reliability and dependability
Summary
Smart cities and communities are at the forefront of innovation, research and development in modern societies. There are various aspects that enabled the sustainability and resiliency (see Section 3) of the Internet, including the following (1) reference architectures, the (2) implementation, quality assurance and certification procedures, the corresponding (3) standardization activities and the (4) systematic approach to components, systems and networks integration and interoperability Within smart cities, these tasks are far more challenging given the plethora of technologies including legacy technology, data models, communication protocols, components, modules, providers, vendors, use cases, stakeholders, application domains, services and users, which are involved and should be considered. The approach is to take various aspects from current theoretical smart city frameworks as an input, including blueprints for ICT reference architectures and belonging standards, various views and dimensions of the sustainability topic, theoretical foundations from the domain of dependable ICT systems, state-of-the-art and emerging technologies as well as theoretical artifacts from the area of quality assurance and testing for communication-based systems All these inputs are combined within the paper as to provide an overall approach for a resilient and sustainable ICT-based smart city. It should optimize existing courses of action, but it should provide a platform for the creation of future processes and cases of use aiming at improving quality of life in future smart cities
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