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EAI Endorsed Transactions on Smart Cities

EAI Endorsed Transactions on Smart Cities is an open access, peer-reviewed scholarly journal focused on applications for Smart Cities with leverage on big-data applications, ICT devices used in the factory of the future, HPC, industrial processes, energy efficiency systems, social platforms and more. The journal publishes research articles, review articles, commentaries, editorials, technical articles, and short communications with a quarterly frequency. Authors are not charged for article submission and processing.

Editor(s)-in-Chief: Henrique Santos and Sara Paiva

Smart Cities are transforming our urban life with digital technologies, offering new citizen-centric public services, optimizing the usage of resources and reducing the impact of service provisioning on the environment. Cities are too big to ignore, they are at the core of our work and leisure lives, hosting the majority of World's population, and the majority of its innovation infrastructure and assets.

Regarding key fundamental dynamics and mobility issues, many cities continue to grow in world-wide while demographic aging will also create pressure of the costs of running staff-intensive mobility infrastructure. It is necessary to improved performance in basic city management areas starting from smart and sustainable mobility, traffic and road networks, to transport systems, but also considering street cleaning to water management, to sustainable energy and affordable low carbon environments.

Generally, a smart city combines legacy networks and new communication architectures in order to achieve compatibility and interoperability among public administrations, operators, companies and population. Then, it goes beyond the use of ICT to provide new advanced services in diverse business and technological domains, such as urban transports, water supply, disposal facilities, lightning, heat buildings and so on. To this aim, the integration of information and communication systems, sensors and data analytics over different systems and infrastructures of a city is necessary.

Topics include, but are not limited to, the following:

  • Applications for Smart Cities able to leverage Big-Data Applications, ICT devices used in Factory of the Future, HPC, Industrial Processes, Energy Efficiency Systems, Social Platforms, etc.
  • Building Trust-based communication and computing systems for IoT and Clouds applications being Secure for Citizens
  • eHealth applications for Citizens.
  • Connecting in City Buildings for optimizing resources and utilities.
  • Software engineering methodology for the design of Smart Cities Systems
  • Energy Efficient and Green Software-defined Infrastructures aimed at Smart Cities facilities.
  • Re-allocation of resources and services (independently of their location) across distributed computing and geographically separated data storage and processing infrastructures. Inter-Cities along with Federation Services: availability, Disaster recovery, etc.
  • Federation of Services (IaaS, PaaS and SaaS) aimed at Public Administrations
  • Service discovery in Smart Cities - device Discovery and Data Discovery.
  • Easy and Large Deployment and autonomic management of densely interconnected and decentralised Cloud, Networks and IoTs infrastructures aimed at Smart Cities.
  • Control Architectures/Network Programmability in Smart Cities aimed at mobility, traffic and road networks, transport systems, energy, economy, and so on.
  • ICT applications enabling Energy-aware, smart and sustainable mobility solutions for Smart Cities.
  • Verification/Debugging/ Auditing Tools for all Applications in Smart Cities Domains
  • Energy-aware and sustainable computing solutions for Smart Cities applications

Special issue on Prevention and control of communicable diseases: ICT solutions for smart cities

Important dates:

Manuscript Submission deadline: 2020-06-26

Notification of Acceptance: 2020-07-27

Submission of final revised paper: 2020-08-28

Publication of special issue (Tentative): 2020-09-11

Guest editors:

  • Dr. Raman Kumar
  • Prof. Sweta Saraff
  • Dr. Supratim Gupta
  • Dr. Ramakrishna Biswal
  • Dr. Tushar Singh
  • Nabanita Saha
  • Dr. Chandana Aditya

Special issue on Sustainable Computing Solutions for Smart Healthcare towards
Smart Cities: With a special focus on COVID-19 Pandemic

Important dates:

Manuscript Submission deadline: 2020-06-15

Notification of Acceptance: 2020-07-15

Submission of final revised paper: 2020-08-17

Publication of special issue (Tentative): 2020-08-21

Guest editors:

  • Prof. Dr. Sandeep Kautish
  • Dr. Ahmed J. Obaid
  • Dr. Rohit Sharma
  • Dr. Pradeep Kumar
  • Dr. Korhan Cengiz
  • Dr. Pradeep N

Call for Papers: Special issue on Social usage of Big Data Application in Smart city

Important dates:

Manuscript Submission deadline: 2020-06-30

Notification of Acceptance: 2020-07-31

Submission of final revised paper: 2020-08-289

Publication of special issue (Tentative): 2020-09-18)

Guest editor:

  • Dr. Girija Narasimhan (Higher College of Technology-Muscat, Oman)

Call for Papers: Special issue on Digital Systems for Humans

Important dates:

Manuscript Submission deadline: 30th of September 2020

Notification of Acceptance: 10th of November 2020

Submission of final revised paper: 30th of November 2020

Publication of special issue (Tentative): 20th of December 2020)

Guest editors:

  • Fabien FERRERO (Université Côte d’Azur, France)
  • Nhan LE THANH (Danang University, Vietnam)
  • Van Ga BUI (University of Dasang, Vietnam)

Call for Papers: Special issue on Impact of Digital Intelligence, Big data and Data analytics on Smart and Sustainable Cities

Important dates:

Manuscript Submission deadline: 2020-09-25

Notification of Acceptance: 2020-10-25

Submission of final revised paper: 2020-11-25

Publication of special issue (Tentative): 2020-12-15

Guest editors:

  • Dr. A. Suresh (Nehru Institute of Engineering and Technology, India)
  • Mr. Udendhran R (Bharathidasan University, India)
  • Dr. Anantha Raman G R (Malla Reddy Institute of Engineering and Technology, India)
  • Andrea Prati (University of Parma)
  • Antonio Celesti (Universitá degli Studi di Messina)
  • Antonio Jara (University of Applied Sciences Western Switzerland)
  • Bin Guo (Northwestern Polytechnical University)
  • Burak Kantarci (University of Ottawa)
  • Dhananjay Singh (Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, South Korea)
  • Luca Foschini (University of Bologna)
  • Marco Zappatore (University of Salento)
  • Maria Fazio (Universitá degli Studi di Messina)
  • Philipp Leitner (University of Zurich)
  • Rajiv Ranjan (Newcastle University)
  • Yanmin Zhu (Shanghai Jiao Tong University)
  • Mohd Abdul Ahad (Jamia Hamdard, India)
  • Sérgio Adriano Fernandes Lopes (University of Minho Portugal)
  • Gautami Tripathi (School of Engineering Sciences and technology, Jamia Hamdard, India)
  • Anand Nayyar (Duy Tan University, Viet Nam)
  • Yuanqing Zheng (The Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
  • Nishu Gupta (Vaagdevi College of Engineering, India)

Henrique Santos1

Henrique M. Dinis Santos received his first degree in Electric and Electronic Engineering, from the University of Coimbra, Portugal, in 1984. In 1996 he received the Ph.D. degree in Computer Engineering, from the University of the Minho, Portugal and the habilitation degree in 2013, by the same institution. Currently, he is an Associate Professor at the Information Systems Department, University of Minho, being responsible for several graduate and postgraduate courses. The research work has been framed within ALGORITMI Research Centre, at the same university, where he is responsible by the supervision of several postgraduate students and the coordination of several R&D projects, mainly in the Information Security area – emphasis on Intrusion Detection, biometrical technologies and Information Security Management – and Computer Architecture area – emphasis on Computer Vision and Cloud Computing. He authored and co-authored several scientific publications in journals, conferences and books within his field of interests and co-authored a patent with an industrial partner, in 2012, in the biometric area. He is also the President of a national Technical Committee (CT 136) for information system security standardization, Vice President for Conferences and Workshops of IEEE Education Society, President of the Portuguese Association for Data Protection (APPD) and integrates frequently advice and scientific committees supporting civil, governmental and military organizations, concerning Information Security subjects. During the second semester of 1990, under an ERASMUS program, he was teaching at the University of Bristol, United Kingdom, where he was recognized as University Academic staff.

Sara Paiva2

Sara Paiva is an Associate Professor at the Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo, a PhD in Informatics Engineering from University of Vigo in 2011 and a Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Oviedo since January 2018, under advanced driving assistants and urban mobility. She is the coordinator of a recently created research centre in the Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo. Her main line of research is mobility solutions with a focus on accessibility and social inclusion and has oriented several final projects of Bachelor and Master in her main line of work. She is frequent book editor of Springer and IGI books, has authored and co-authored several scientific publications in journals and conferences, is a frequent reviewer of international journals and international conferences.


1: University of Minho, Portugal
2: Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo, Portugal

  • Does collective consciousness compromise during epidemics and pandemics?

    Appears in:
    sc 18: e7

    Authors:
    Anoushka Khanna, Namita I, Rina Chakrabarti, Prem Kumar Indraganti

    Published:
    22nd Sep 2020

    Abstract:
    The ongoing pandemic, COVID-19, has received unprecedented global attention. Though a pathogen is essentially the causative agent, the dynamics of the cause-effect in major events like the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is not well understood. It is not even clear …The ongoing pandemic, COVID-19, has received unprecedented global attention. Though a pathogen is essentially the causative agent, the dynamics of the cause-effect in major events like the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is not well understood. It is not even clear if the focused attention of the normal population impacts the safety and health of the exposed victims and in what way the different groups interact with each other, is also a big question. The idea of panpsychism and hierarchical consciousness suggests that consciousness functions beyond an individual and works at distinct levels such as family, community, state, territories, nations, and world. In this perspective, keeping in mind, the idea of hierarchical consciousness, the impact of higher consciousness in major events like the COVID-19 pandemic, on the well-being and fate of the exposed population along with the probable role of quantum entanglement, has been discussed.
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  • An Analysis of Trends, Developments and Transparent Issues in the making of Indian Smart Cities

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    sc 18: e6

    Author:
    Aatif Jamshed

    Published:
    31st Aug 2020

    Abstract:
    During the past few years, interest has grown in the creation and application of methods, structures for smart city evaluation. This reflects the increasing awareness of the value of systems for better planning and architecture of efficient and stable communities. A city is a vas…During the past few years, interest has grown in the creation and application of methods, structures for smart city evaluation. This reflects the increasing awareness of the value of systems for better planning and architecture of efficient and stable communities. A city is a vast and permanent human community that offers many resources and opportunities for its people. The rapid urbanization and growth have put a lot of pressure on local services and service delivery. The research discusses many potential resources that can make a city smart across growing city dimensions and also discusses the initiatives of the Indian government towards a Smart city. This paper is a survey of a variety of papers, covering the actual case study from a more comprehensive framework, such as e-mobility, which covers the smart city subject from.
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  • Assesing The Feasibility of Smart Grid Technology on Electrical Distribution Grids

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    sc 18: e5

    Authors:
    Tatenda Kanyowa, Rindai P. Mahoso

    Published:
    28th Aug 2020

    Abstract:
    This paper gives a critical analysis framework on the impact of smart grids on electrical distribution grids. It highlights the discrepancies between the developed and developing countries on the adoption of this technology. The concept of smart grids is gaining appreciable recogni…This paper gives a critical analysis framework on the impact of smart grids on electrical distribution grids. It highlights the discrepancies between the developed and developing countries on the adoption of this technology. The concept of smart grids is gaining appreciable recognition in the developed world’s electricity networks. The need to assess the impact of this new technology is critical as the laws of infrastructural clearly show that this is the direction to go if speedy and efficient development is going to be achieved in the developing world. A case study of developing countries was cited as a reference base and compared against developed countries. As developing countries still have the majority of their people still without access to power, the paper shows that the capacity for the implementation of smart grid technologies is ripe for implementation, albeit at a rather high fiscal cost.
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  • An approach for rapid generation of interactive spider maps for public transport networks

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    sc 18: e4

    Authors:
    Sara Santos, Teresa Galvão, Thiago Sobral

    Published:
    27th Aug 2020

    Abstract:
    A spider map is a type of schematic map that allows one to answer questions like "From where I am, where can I go?", as it provides only the essential information for a given geographical area (hub), from which lines emerge, whilst keeping the geographic context. They are often designed manually fo…A spider map is a type of schematic map that allows one to answer questions like "From where I am, where can I go?", as it provides only the essential information for a given geographical area (hub), from which lines emerge, whilst keeping the geographic context. They are often designed manually for a limited set of locations, thus reducing its widespread adoption. Moreover, spider maps should conform to several design constraints, which turns the automated generation into a complex problem. Optimisation techniques have been applied to this problem, although existing solutions are time costly and require heavy computational power. This paper presents an approach to automatically generate feasible spider maps within a short execution time based on an algorithm that adapts state-of-the-art methods, producing adequate quality maps to be manipulated ininteractive media, based on the areas selected by the user. We report the results of a case study for areas in thecity of Porto, Portugal.
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  • Performance Analysis on Popularity Based, Content Based and Collaborative Filtering Utilizing Recommendation Framework

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    sc 18: e3

    Authors:
    Deepkiran Munjal, Anju Gera, Pawan Kumar Singh

    Published:
    25th Aug 2020

    Abstract:
    In today's computerized world, it has become an irritating undertaking to locate the substance of one's loving in an interminable assortment of substance that are being devoured like art, education, media and so on. Then again there has been a developing dev…In today's computerized world, it has become an irritating undertaking to locate the substance of one's loving in an interminable assortment of substance that are being devoured like art, education, media and so on. Then again there has been a developing development among the computerized substance suppliers who need to connect the same number of clients on their administration as feasible for the most extreme time. A tune proposal is significant in our public activity because of its highlights, for example, in building smart cities recommending a lot of melodies to clients dependent on their advantage, or the popularity of the tunes. In this paper we are proposing a song suggestion framework that can prescribe song to another client just as the other existing clients. We use Popularity Based, Content Based separating, and Collaborative Filtering, which is a blend of application of communication systems, to develop a framework that gives progressively exact proposals concerning melodies.
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  • Smart Environment Monitoring System using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle in Bangladesh

    Appears in:
    sc 18: e2

    Authors:
    Md. Al-Farabi, Muntasir Chowdhury, Md. Readuzzaman, Md. Rafat Hossain, Saifur Rahman Sabuj, Md Akbar Hossain

    Published:
    19th Aug 2020

    Abstract:
    Greenhouse gases have influenced in enormous ways to global warming and climate change. The alarming rise of the toxic gases poses a serious threat to the future of mankind. Traditionally wireless sensor based monitoring systems have been used to monitor the concentration of greenhouse gases in the…Greenhouse gases have influenced in enormous ways to global warming and climate change. The alarming rise of the toxic gases poses a serious threat to the future of mankind. Traditionally wireless sensor based monitoring systems have been used to monitor the concentration of greenhouse gases in the environment. It is not always possible to access the area of interest to deploy the sensor node or even do maintenancein case of failure. Therefore in this paper we proposed and implemented unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) based greenhouse gases monitoring system which assembles humidity sensor, gas sensors and temperature sensors. The proposed UAV system equipped with sensors collect data from the atmosphere and predicting future humidity, temperature and gasses. In this paper, we collect these data from three different areas Uttara, Aftabnagar and Mirpur in Bangladesh. Our analysis shows that air quality is better in Aftabnagar, though itis variable depending on the different time of the day. For automatic collection of environmental sample, our proposed system mainly features high precision of aerial platform.
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  • Security Surveillance and Home Automation System using IoT

    Appears in:
    sc 18: e1

    Authors:
    A. Sanjay, Meenu Vijarania, Vivek Jaglan

    Published:
    6th Aug 2020

    Abstract:
    Internet of Things provides connectivity and user interoperability among different systems, devices, networks and services in particular control systems. IoT can be envisioned as a network of connected devices which are capable of providing intelligent services. This paper …Internet of Things provides connectivity and user interoperability among different systems, devices, networks and services in particular control systems. IoT can be envisioned as a network of connected devices which are capable of providing intelligent services. This paper presents a security surveillance system in buildings based on IoT using Raspberry Pi. It can be used at industries, homes and office etc, where the camera records the movement of objects and using IoT devices and the data is stored on to the server. The idea is to lock the door even from outside the house and it can be opened using the android phone itself. If some intruder tries to break or to get in anonymously, the system will detect the person and photo will be clicked by the security camera and send the message along with photo on to the owner’s mail, thus creating the evidence for our safety. Some additional features for automation like rain sensing windows using rain sensor and servo motor and automatic light on/off for saving electricity and reduce human effort with IR senor and a simple led have also been implemented in this paper. Hardware implementation has been done for the proposed model and it will be applicable for monitoring home, industry, office etc. in the absence of user.
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  • Review on Drowsiness Detection

    Appears in:
    sc 20(12): e7

    Authors:
    Apoorva Apoorva, D Khasim Vali, Rakesh K R

    Published:
    10th Jul 2020

    Abstract:
    This paper relates the street mishaps that happen because of driver's drowsiness. Recent studies state that more disasters are caused due to doziness. Drivers can feel drowsiness due to sleep deprivation, continuously driving, drugs and medicines, and so on. Accidents caused due to doziness are m…This paper relates the street mishaps that happen because of driver's drowsiness. Recent studies state that more disasters
    are caused due to doziness. Drivers can feel drowsiness due to sleep deprivation, continuously driving, drugs and
    medicines, and so on. Accidents caused due to doziness are more than drink driving. This paper traces many methods to
    detect drowsiness and alerts the driver. There are two approaches to detect drowsiness. First is physiologically based and
    another is behavioral-based. Also there are other approached used. Many technologies are used for detecting the weariness
    of the driver. It is a review paper of numerous advancements utilized by various scientists. In addition, human conduct can
    also be studied. Also, the discovery of drowsiness with eyes open is conceivable. In countenance detection technology,
    driver weariness recognition is one of the major possible businesses uses. Here how drivers can be alerted using different
    methods is discussed.
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  • Consociate Healthcare System through Biometric Based Internet of Medical Things (BBIOMT) Approach

    Appears in:
    sc 20(10): e5

    Authors:
    Sherin Zafar, Samia Khan, Nida Iftekhar, Siddharta Sankar Biswas

    Published:
    23rd Jun 2020

    Abstract:
    Internet of Medical Things (IOMT) or healthcare Internet of Thing (IOT) is a collection of medical devices and applications that connect the various healthcare systems based on IT through online computer networks. The devices are connected the output Wi-Fi allowing the M-M (machine to machine) co…Internet of Medical Things (IOMT) or healthcare Internet of Thing (IOT) is a collection of medical devices and
    applications that connect the various healthcare systems based on IT through online computer networks. The devices are
    connected the output Wi-Fi allowing the M-M (machine to machine) communication through IOMT. IOMT provides
    various applications including remote patient monitoring (RPM), wearable fitness bands (WFB), hospital beds that are
    sensor equipped and many-more. IOMT allows communication of medical devices without the intervention of human. The
    widespread deployment of IOMT faces challenges of security, privacy, connectivity as well as compatibility. IOMT based
    systems suffer from various security breaches and hacking attacks. Traditional security measures of login/password do not
    compliment IOT based systems. So this research chapter proposes a novel Biometric Based Internet of Medical Things
    (BBIOMT) technology that is unique and spoof free. The BBIOMT approach eliminates shortcomings of traditional
    password schemes and offer a much superior authentication solution.
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  • A Comprehensive Study on Highly Sensitive Photonics Based Acoustic Sensors for Under Water Applications

    Appears in:
    sc 20(12): e6

    Authors:
    Hareesh Kumar, M. N Sreerangaraju

    Published:
    10th Jun 2020

    Abstract:
    By referring few researcher works which is related to the work of optical sensor and able to detect the acoustic signal, this review paper provides the detailed study of acoustic signal in under water. Researchers has worked with the optical sensor and emerged as great promising sensing device. F…By referring few researcher works which is related to the work of optical sensor and able to detect the acoustic
    signal, this review paper provides the detailed study of acoustic signal in under water. Researchers has worked
    with the optical sensor and emerged as great promising sensing device. From various research papers it is
    observed that the detection of acoustic signal is done with the help of various optical sensors. The various
    sensors are fiber bragg grating (FBG) sensor, fiber optic interferometric sensor and Mach zehnder
    interferometer (MZI) sensor. So this review paper covers all these sensors and their application with a
    particular focus on the different structure of optical sensor. The structure of the various sensors and their
    application is discussed from the different research paper.
    The overall work is reported and corresponding result is demonstrated. From the demonstrated work it has been
    observed that with good quality and proper sensitivity in all optical sensors are able to detect the acoustic signal
    for under water due to their compact size and able to provide accurate results.
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  • Big Data in Telecom Industry: Effective Predictive Techniques on CDRs

    Appears in:
    sc 20(11): e1

    Authors:
    Sara ElElimy, Samir Moustafa

    Published:
    4th Jun 2020

    Abstract:
    Mobile network operators start to face many challenges in the digital era, especially with high demands from customers. Since the mobile network operators have considered a source of big data traditional techniques are not effective with new era big data, internet of things (IoT) and 5G, as a result…Mobile network operators start to face many challenges in the digital era, especially with high demands from customers. Since the mobile network operators have considered a source of big data traditional techniques are not effective with new era big data, internet of things (IoT) and 5G, as a result handling effectively different big datasets becomes a vital task for operators with the continuous growth of data and moving from long term evolution(LTE) to 5G therefore, there is an urgent need for sufficient big data analytic to predict future demands, traffic, and network performance to fulfill the requirements of the fifth generation of mobile network technology. In this paper, we introduce data science techniques using machine learning and deep learning algorithms: the auto-regressive integrated moving average(ARIMA) Bayesian-based curve fitting, and recurrent neural network(RNN) is employed for a data-driven application to mobile network operators. The main framework included in models is an identification parameter of each model, estimation, prediction, and final data-driven application of this prediction from business and network performance applications. These models are applied to Telecom Italian Big Data challenge call detail records (CDRs) datasets. The performance of these models is found out using specific well-known evaluation criteria that show that ARIMA (machine learning-based model) is more accurate as a predictive model in such a dataset as the RNN (deep learning model).
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  • Critical Success Factors of Green Project Management for Sustainable Housing

    Appears in:
    sc 20(12): e5

    Authors:
    Dina Khater, A. Samer Ezeldin, Medhat Elshazly

    Published:
    3rd Jun 2020

    Abstract:
    The growing demand for green construction, which is associated with increased perceptions of the risks associated with going green, highlights the need for a standard or benchmark that should be identified for project management practices to ensure successful sustainable urban development, assess i…The growing demand for green construction, which is associated with increased perceptions of the risks associated with going green, highlights the need for a standard or benchmark that should be identified for project management practices to ensure successful sustainable urban development, assess its progress and report the results. The article argues that this would require a rephrasing of the project management processes as the execution of green building projects requires changes to the traditional project management aspects. Therefore, the article will address the significant changes needed for project management practices that are appropriate to provide procedural parameters to a green building project. Based on this perspective, the article explores the integration of concepts of sustainability into knowledge areas and processes of project management and how it can be used as a tool to sustainably implement the construction projects. The article results to reach the critical success factors of a work plan which is introduced as a Guide Model. The introduced Guide Model was validated to ensure the integration of sustainability into the management of sustainable development and fast track mega projects, called Green Project Management (GPM) with Egyptian sustainable development in the housing sector as the case study.
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  • Implementation of Decentralized Blockchain E-voting

    Appears in:
    sc 20(10): e4

    Authors:
    Saad Moin Khan, Aansa Arshad, Gazala Mushtaq, Aqeel Khalique, Tarek Husein

    Published:
    3rd Jun 2020

    Abstract:
    E-voting reduced the cost of election and provided convenience to some extent as compared to the traditional approach of pen and paper but it was considered to be unreliable as anyone having access to the machine physically can obstruct the machine and alter the votes. Also in order to control the …E-voting reduced the cost of election and provided convenience to some extent as compared to the traditional approach of pen and paper but it was considered to be unreliable as anyone having access to the machine physically can obstruct the machine and alter the votes. Also in order to control the entire procedure from electronic voting to electoral results and tracking the outcomes, a central system is required. Voters are not completely secure as vote can be targeted easily. It also possesses a great threat to the right to vote and transparency. This paper provides a solution for removing inconveniences from conventional elections using blockchain that has emerged as an exciting technology for various application due to its unique characteristics that outperform other technologies. The goal of this research is to establish a system for e-voting that is decentralized rather than centralized by using blockchain technology that guarantees protection to electorate’s identity, data transfer privacy and verifiability by an open and transparent voting process.
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  • Blockchain: A detailed survey to explore innovative implementation of disruptive technology

    Appears in:
    sc 20(10): e3

    Authors:
    Tabish Mufti, Nudrat Saleem, Shahab Saquib Sohail

    Published:
    3rd Jun 2020

    Abstract:
    Blockchain technology is a major disruptive technology breakthroughs in the past two decade. This technology can be easily understood as a ledger of records which are irreversible and verifiable. The greatest impact of this application is in the massive generation of crypto-currencies. Over the yea…Blockchain technology is a major disruptive technology breakthroughs in the past two decade. This technology can be easily understood as a ledger of records which are irreversible and verifiable. The greatest impact of this application is in the massive generation of crypto-currencies. Over the years, block chain has proved to be more comprehensive and beneficial in more ways than one; not just as an archive of records or virtual currency domain. This paper comes up with a survey done to bring out the key developments of block chain into other domains of practice. Despite the most prevalent adoption of block chain happened to be financial and banking sector but there are researches and trials been done in many other sector by technology game changers. This paper will explore and present diverse uses of block chain in other domains, its impacts and the future course of implementation practices that may be tested.
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  • A Proposed Methodology for Integrated Architectural Design of Smart Hospitals

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    sc 20(12): e4

    Author:
    Mohamed Helmy Elhefnawy

    Published:
    28th May 2020

    Abstract:
    INTRODUCTION: Urgent need has recently emerged to transform hospitals from buildings that not only achieve functional requirements, but also comply with modern technologies. This is so that they are able to self-adapt to external conditions and change their behavior according to users. This is comp…INTRODUCTION: Urgent need has recently emerged to transform hospitals from buildings that not only achieve functional requirements, but also comply with modern technologies. This is so that they are able to self-adapt to external conditions and change their behavior according to users. This is compatible with emerging trends to convert cities and buildings in developing countries to smart.

    OBJECTIVES: To develop a comprehensive methodology for proper dealing with smart materials & systems when constructing and finishing hospitals, leading to defining principles of an integrated architectural design for smart hospitals.

    METHODS: The descriptive analytical approach included theoretical background on concept of smart hospitals, types of smart materials & systems and their role in hospital design.

    RESULTS: An integrated methodology for proper architectural dealing with hospitals to allow them to be smart, which the study recommends to follow and complement between smart materials and systems.

    CONCLUSION: The research conceived a proposed methodology for the architectural design of smart hospitals and identified mechanisms for utilizing smart materials and systems in developing hospital designs.
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  • Wheelchair Control and Home Automation Using Hand Gestures

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    sc 20(12): e3

    Authors:
    Nithya BG, Sanjay S, Thanush R, Thejas BK, Venugeetha Y

    Published:
    21st May 2020

    Abstract:
    With the advancement of technology in recent times, mobility is one field which is not left behind. The difficulty and dependency for mobility is the major drawback of mechanical wheelchair. But in recent decades, there are many technologies which have been implemented to overcome different disabil…With the advancement of technology in recent times, mobility is one field which is not left behind. The difficulty and dependency for mobility is the major drawback of mechanical wheelchair. But in recent decades, there are many technologies which have been implemented to overcome different disabilities of people. The proposed system uses air gesture to control both home automation and wheelchair movement. Arduino UNO controls the movement of the wheelchair and to control specific electrical appliances at home. The video of hand gesture by user will be processed to obtain the input for Arduino board. The proposed system is aimed at providing ease of use for disabled with minimal hand movement.
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  • Smart Cities: Sustainable and Safety Roads Study Model

    Appears in:
    sc 20(12): e2

    Authors:
    R. M. Kamal, N. A. Elsayed, N. G. Gado

    Published:
    21st May 2020

    Abstract:
    Sustainable Satisfaction in Smart Cities has been discussed extensively within the academic context, however; it is argued the fast-urban development and technology, strong trend towards facilitating of urban communities through achieving user’s satisfaction. Consequently, urban planners have had t…Sustainable Satisfaction in Smart Cities has been discussed extensively within the academic context, however; it is argued the fast-urban development and technology, strong trend towards facilitating of urban communities through achieving user’s satisfaction. Consequently, urban planners have had to work hard to raise awareness and increase the quality of life among with future development, global goals, which are easily adopted in new cities which includes tools and mechanisms to achieve such goals . This research aims to respond to the hypothesis by answering the following question: What are the sustainability road elements would that enable achieving a good quality of life and user’s satisfaction in smart new cities??? Hence, the challenges of implementing a maximum level of satisfaction to improve smart new cities’ performance to meet resident expectation and keep it ahead. This paper pinpoints through applying various methods, concepts and practices. Using mixed methods offers a sharper insight into the research question and problems than a single methodology approach, theoretical studies includes articles that address relevant subjects. Moreover, by analyse and compare the performance of the chosen international European smart city case studies in terms of pros and cons methods and efficiency. The researchers plan to apply their research techniques, by suggesting a check list to reach a comparative analysis for improving the current situation, raise life standards in a sustainable manner, which may help the New Egyptian cities those based on the principle of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to face any challenges and improve their opportunities, through a comprehensive and effective management system.
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  • Emulating Vehicular Ad hoc Networks for Evaluation and Testing of Automotive Embedded Systems

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    sc 16(2): e2

    Authors:
    Manuel Schiller, Alois Knoll

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    932

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    The evaluation and testing of cooperative applications based on Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs) in real testbeds is difficult due to the need for repeatable scenarios and large-scale experiments. Therefore a novel virtualization-based framework is presented to evaluate automotive software in the…The evaluation and testing of cooperative applications based on Vehicular Ad hoc Networks (VANETs) in real testbeds is difficult due to the need for repeatable scenarios and large-scale experiments. Therefore a novel virtualization-based framework is presented to evaluate automotive software in the context of emulated VANETs. The approach enables the precise and large-scale evaluation of real-world implementations through the synchronized execution of network and vehicle simulators as well as the applications encapsulated in virtual Electronic Control Units. This paper provides a detailed description of the framework's structure and its components as well as an validation of the proposed synchronization algorithm. The performance comparison with pure network simulation indicates that despite additional overhead large-scale experiments can be conducted without loss of accuracy.
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  • IoT Applications to Smart Campuses and a Case Study

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    sc 17(5): e4

    Author:
    D. Minoli

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    758

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    Internet of Things (IoT) concepts are now being broadly investigated for actual deployment initiatives. Although ecosystem-wide architectures and standards are still slowly evolving and/or still lacking, some progress is being made; standardization fosters flexibility, cost-effectiveness, and ubiqu…Internet of Things (IoT) concepts are now being broadly investigated for actual deployment initiatives. Although ecosystem-wide architectures and standards are still slowly evolving and/or still lacking, some progress is being made; standardization fosters flexibility, cost-effectiveness, and ubiquitous deployment. Applications range from infrastructure and critical-infrastructure support (for example smart grid, smart city, smart building, and transportation), to end-user applications such as e-health, crowdsensing, and further along, to a multitude of other applications where only the imagination is the limit. This article discusses a specific example of an IoT application supporting Smart Campuses. Smart Campuses are part of a continuum that spans cities at the large-scale end to smart buildings at the small-scale end, and encompass universities, business parks, hospitals, housing developments, correctional facilities, and other real estate environments. The specific Use Case example covered in this article relates to an actual project to automate some key functions at a set of large campuses, but the nature of the campus is not directly revealed. After a review of the applicable IoT and control technologies, this Best Practices article describes technological solutions that were employed to support the requisite control functions and serves as an example for the applicability of IoT to Smart Campus applications.
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  • Road Traffic RFID Pedestrians Detecting System for Vehicles

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    sc 20(9): e2

    Authors:
    Michal Balog, Angelina Iakovets, Stella Hrehova

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    734

    Abstract:
    Safe road traffic, clean environment, environmentally friendly vehicles and eco-buildings are components of the world’s vision of immediate future supported by scientists and statesmen. Aspiration for healthy environment and sustainable development of technologies give life for idea of smart cities…Safe road traffic, clean environment, environmentally friendly vehicles and eco-buildings are components of the world’s vision of immediate future supported by scientists and statesmen. Aspiration for healthy environment and sustainable development of technologies give life for idea of smart cities which consist of all these visions towards modern world.
    The aim of research was connection pedestrians and alarm system of the vehicle to prevent road incidents with the help of RFID technology. There were proposed vehicle RFID system and tags for pedestrians. System was designed on the basis of scientists’ research in this area. The main factors influencing the construction of proposed system were working range of the system and coverage width of the reading devices. Further were compared existent subsidiary systems for drivers
    versus designed system. The study represents the expected effectiveness of the proposed RFID system as well as the ability to implement it even in old vehicle control systems.
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  • An Open Agent-Based Model to Simulate the Effect of WOM Marketing Campaigns

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    sc 16(4): e3

    Authors:
    Paul Leger, Manuela López, Carmen Hidalgo-Alcázar, Hiroaki Fukuda

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    731

    Abstract:
    Word-Of-Mouth (WOM) is the opinion of consumers about a product. There is currently a clear trend in the use of WOM to diffuse information about a new product, known as WOM marketing campaigns. Marketing researchers are studying the impact of the different types of these campaigns has. The difficul…Word-Of-Mouth (WOM) is the opinion of consumers about a product. There is currently a clear trend in the use of WOM to diffuse information about a new product, known as WOM marketing campaigns. Marketing researchers are studying the impact of the different types of these campaigns has. The difficulty in getting data and isolating the effect that is analyzed limits the research of marketers in this topic. Lastly, some simulation models based on agents have overcome previous difficulty. However, these models are ad-hoc and specific solutions for every study. This poster proposes an open implementation of an agent-based model to simulate different scenarios of WOM marketing campaigns. Through customizations, this proposal will allow marketing researchers to test WOM marketing campaigns in different scenarios.
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  • Evaluation of LPWAN technology for Smart City

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    sc 17(6): e3

    Authors:
    Hussein Mroue, Guillaume Andrieux, Eduardo Motta Cruz, Gilles Rouyer

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    709

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    In this paper, we explore technologies for low power wide area networks (LPWAN) serving the Internet of Things (IoT). These networks are ded-icated to long-range and low-speed communication to ensure a good autonomy up to 10 years and a budget link up to tens of kilometers. The performance of two …In this paper, we explore technologies for low power wide area networks (LPWAN) serving the Internet of
    Things (IoT). These networks are ded-icated to long-range and low-speed communication to ensure a good autonomy up to 10 years and a budget link up to tens of kilometers. The performance of two LPWA technologies is investigated, where the well known LoRa and Sigfox technologies are evaluated according to their sensitivity to the interference and the impact of the spreading spectrum technique on the receptor sensitivity. Numerical results are presented and discussed.
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  • Multi Agent System Optimization in Virtual Vehicle Testbeds

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    sc 16(2): e1

    Authors:
    Patrick Lange, Rene Weller, Gabriel Zachmann

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    687

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    Modelling, simulation, and optimization play a crucial role in the development and testing of autonomous vehicles. The ability to compute, test, assess, and debug suitable configurations reduces the time and cost of vehicle development. Until now, engineers are forced to manually change vehicle…Modelling, simulation, and optimization play a crucial role in the development and testing of autonomous vehicles. The ability to compute, test, assess, and debug
    suitable configurations reduces the time and cost of vehicle development.
    Until now, engineers are forced to manually change vehicle configurations in virtual testbeds in order to react to inappropriate simulated vehicle performance.
    Such manual adjustments are very time consuming and are also often made ad-hoc, which decreases the overall quality of the vehicle engineering process.
    In order to avoid this manual adjustment as well as to improve the overall quality of these adjustments, we present a novel comprehensive approach to modelling, simulation, and optimization of such vehicles.
    Instead of manually adjusting vehicle configurations, engineers can specify simulation goals in a domain specific modelling language. The simulated vehicle performance
    is then mapped to these simulation goals and our multi-agent system computes for optimized vehicle configuration parameters in order to satisfy these goals.
    Consequently, our approach does not need any supervision and gives engineers visual feedback of their vehicle configuration expectations.
    Our evaluation shows that we are able to optimize vehicle configuration sets to meet simulation goals while maintaining real-time performance of the overall simulation.
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  • Sophisticated Route Calculation Approaches for Microscopic Traffic Simulations

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    sc 16(2): e3

    Authors:
    Karl Huebner, Bjoern Schuenemann, Ilja Radusch

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    682

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    In order to implement meaningful microscopic traffic simulations, a sophisticated calculation of the vehicle routes is essential. In this paper, different route calculation approaches for microscopic traffic simulators are analysed and compared. Various simulations are performed to detect traffic d…In order to implement meaningful microscopic traffic simulations, a sophisticated calculation of the vehicle routes is essential. In this paper, different route calculation approaches for microscopic traffic simulators are analysed and compared. Various simulations are performed to detect traffic distribution and traffic flow resulting from the used route calculation approaches. To have simulations as realistic as possible, real OD matrices of the city of Fulda (Germany) were used for the evaluation of the different approaches. The results show that simple route calculation algorithms are not appropriate for microscopic traffic simulations. However, approaches that are more sophisticated and that integrate additional heuristics produce good results regarding traffic distribution and traffic flow and can improve iterative techniques to find a user equilibrium.
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  • Computational Viability of Fog Methodologies in IoT Enabled Smart City Architectures-A Smart Grid Case Study

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    sc 18(7): 3

    Authors:
    Md. Muzakkir Hussain, Mohammad Saad Alam, M.M. Sufyan Beg

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    678

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    The gradual evolution in the Information Communication Technology (ICT) support of Smart City (SC) architecture leveraged with meshes of Internet of Things (IoT) creates and welcomes research and investment efforts from academia, R&Ds and policymakers. The IoT utilities are being deployed at eve… The gradual evolution in the Information Communication Technology (ICT) support of Smart City (SC) architecture leveraged with meshes of Internet of Things (IoT) creates and welcomes research and investment efforts from academia, R&Ds and policymakers. The IoT utilities are being deployed at every layers of a typical SG backbone namely Application layer, Energy layer and Communication layer. The geo-distributed clusters of IoT “objects” produce galactic volume of data that exacerbates the need to make a paradigm shift from centralized data center based processing to a hybrid model that supports both in situ as well as cloud based storage and computational resources. To combat such SC issues, Fog Computing (FC) emerges as a promising solution, which pushes the computation resources onto the network edge nodes. This work investigates the high performance of Fog Computing over generic cloud computing in terms of metrics viz. latencies, power consumption etc, through a Smart Grid (SG) use-case. Through an operational cost optimization framework, the work comprehends the suitability of fog methodologies to make a synergistic interplay with the core centered clouds thus empowering a wide breed of real-time and latency free services. Finally, an overview of the core orchestration issues, challenges, and future research directions are presented for FC enabled SCs.
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  • Smartphone Application for Self Blood Glucose Monitoring & Disease Management- A Case Report

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    sc 16(4): e2

    Author:
    Moshe Kamar

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    645

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    Self-management of blood sugar glucose, diet and control of daily activities are crucial in overall management of type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM). In order to better adjust insulin type and dosage, educate for better diet patients are seldom requested to conduct a diary of their glucose measurements …Self-management of blood sugar glucose, diet and control of daily activities are crucial in overall management of type 2 diabetes mellitus (DM). In order to better adjust insulin type and dosage, educate for better diet patients are seldom requested to conduct a diary of their glucose measurements and meals. In today’s era of smartphone widespread use, it has been suggested that using mobile technology for self-blood glucose measurement together with the ability to automatically capture other factors important to control DM, may be an important method for enhancing disease self-management.
    The Dario™ device and mobile application, is a self-blood glucose monitoring device using smartphone interface. The application accumulates data of measurements, insulin intake, meals and physical activity. Users are also members of an electronic DM support group. We present a case of a 55 y.o. type 2 DM patient who reported using the device over a year period. The patient baseline HbA1c before using the Dario program was 7.4. He started using the Dario device and application and over a period of one year he managed to gradually reduce HbA1c to 6.2 by keeping his glucose measurements in range from 20% a week to 100%.
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  • Oil and Gas supply chain optimization using Agent-based modelling (ABM) integration with Big Data technology

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    sc 20(9): e1

    Authors:
    Jamal Maktoubian, Mehran Ghasempour-Mouziraji, Mohebollah Noori

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    642

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    The worldwide oil & gas industry is one of the world's most complex business networks, and is connected with almost every supply chain branch. It includes international and domestic transportation, materials handling, ordering and inventory visibility and control, import/export facilitation and soc…The worldwide oil & gas industry is one of the world's most complex business networks, and is connected with almost every supply chain branch. It includes international and domestic transportation, materials handling, ordering and inventory visibility and control, import/export facilitation and social network, etc. Traditionally, it has been influenced by big oilfield companies. However, in recent years the industry has been changing into a more heterogeneous and diverse network of businesses, and the oilfields are getting smaller and more diverse. One of the reason could be dwindling the oil reserves and growing specialized companies which are able to extract hydrocarbons; another reason is the restructuring and globalization of the entire business as well as some new technology implementing. Using agent-based modeling and big data technology integrity, we are able to optimize supply chain in oil and gas industries.
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Publisher
EAI
ISSN
2518-3893
Number of Volumes
4
Last Published
2020-08-18