Abstract
AbstractUrban Internet of Things (IoT) is in an early speculative phase. Often linked to the smart city movement, it provides a way of sensing and collecting data—environmental, societal, and transitional—both automatically, remotely, and with increasing levels of spatial and temporal detail. From city-wide data collection down to the scale of individual buildings and rooms, this chapter details the technology behind the rise of IoT in urban areas and explores the challenges (societal and technical) behind city-wide deployments. Drawing from a series of deployments at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London, it details the challenges and opportunities for mass data collection. Widening out the view, it looks at what is becoming known as “the humble lamp post” in Urban IoT fields to detail the potential of Urban IoT with the objects that already form part of the urban fabric. Finally, it examines the potential of Urban IoT for input into urban modeling and how we are on the edge of a shift in the collection, analysis, and communication of urban data.
Highlights
Urban Internet of Things (IoT) is in an early speculative phase
We explore these deployments while focusing on the wider picture and the current realities of Urban IoT in the context of our definition of smart—self-monitoring, analysis, and reporting technologies—and within the view of what we define as the essential six Vs of Urban IoT: velocity, volume, veracity, variety, volatility, and value
Even social aspects of the building’s everyday life can be incorporated for a more holistic, responsive, and participatory approach to building management and operation (Dawkins et al 2018). It is this broad spectrum of connectivity through multiple aspects of IoT, from environmental sensor data through to information occupation and across to social network information, that provides the real key to a digital twin
Summary
As Cellary (2013) notes, there is no common consensus about what “smart” really means in the context of information and communications technology (ICT) This term has become fashionable, it is broadly used as a synonym of almost anything considered to be modern and intelligent (Anthopoulos 2017). While the term smart has many competing definitions and public perceptions associated with it, we consider a focus on sensing and computation in public spaces to be its defining characteristic. In this way, the aspirations behind smart technologies we relate to self-monitoring, analysis, and reporting technology.
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