Research Article
A Unified Reference Model for Smart Cities
@INPROCEEDINGS{10.1007/978-3-030-51005-3_16, author={Nuno Soares and Paula Monteiro and Francisco J. Duarte and Ricardo J. Machado}, title={A Unified Reference Model for Smart Cities}, proceedings={Science and Technologies for Smart Cities. 5th EAI International Summit, SmartCity360, Braga, Portugal, December 4-6, 2019, Proceedings}, proceedings_a={SMARTCITY}, year={2020}, month={7}, keywords={Reference model Reference architecture Framework Smart cities}, doi={10.1007/978-3-030-51005-3_16} }- Nuno Soares
Paula Monteiro
Francisco J. Duarte
Ricardo J. Machado
Year: 2020
A Unified Reference Model for Smart Cities
SMARTCITY
Springer
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-51005-3_16
Abstract
Smart city is a multi-faceted concept perceived in many different perspectives. Cities are multidimensional and highly complex interconnected systems of people, software, machines, and data, bringing new design, construction, and operational challenges. Work has been done on models and reference architectures for smart cities that can help to cope with those challenges. However, also because of the variability of concepts, arrangements of key components, and technology heterogeneity, a unique and universal smart city reference architecture for real world deployment is distant. This paper attempts to clarify the meaning of the concept smart cities, trying to reveal its mostly accepted dimensions and the best arrangement between them. Through an in-depth literature review of relevant studies from academia, international organizations, corporations, and standards development organizations, that gathered and analyzed contributions ranging from smart cities definition attempts and enunciations of their relevant dimensions, to already existing models and urban platforms, the paper proposes a classification for grouping the identified smart cities dimensions, exposed on a unified reference model for smart cities.
