Research Topics in Smart Cities

Smart Cities: Digital Solutions for a More Livable Future

1. Secure, Sustainable Smart Cities

• Smart security
• Safety and security systems
• Smart city theory, modeling and simulation
• Smart city implementation
• Smart city deployments, test-beds and field trials
• Smart city artificial intelligence applications and trends
• Digital city and smart growth
• Smart economy development
• Smart campus
• Smart people
• Citizen engagement and smart governance
• City planning and management
• Smarter public safety and public safety solutions
• Smart city for special needs
• Urban micro-climate studies
• Civil and environmental engineering for smart cities
• Smart city infrastructure
• Intelligent infrastructure
• Transportation management
• Transportation economics
• Spatial econometrics
• Application of advanced microeconomic theories to intelligent transportation systems
• Statistical modeling of transportation and urban systems
• Vacuum-tube maglev trains
• Smart environments
• Smart structures technology
• Smart disaster management
• Smart healthcare and emergency management
• Sustainable management
• Smart living
• Smart building and smart home
• Home/service robots
• Smart retail
• Supply chain and smart logistics
• Software-defined power
• Smart manufacturing
• Vertical farming (urban farming)
• Plant factory
• Smart agriculture
• Urban controlled environment agriculture

2. Data, ICT Role for Smart Cities

• Smart urban crowd-sensing
• Urban computing
• A cyber-physical infrastructure for the “Smart City”
• Smart green infrastructure monitoring
• Urban/regional air pollution modelling
• Wireless and optical communications, network technologies, services and application
• Mobile computing and services for urban and public transport systems
• Mobile accessible pedestrian signals (MAPS) system
• Cellular networking in smart cities
• Crowdsourcing data collection
• Delay tolerant networks and systems for urban data collection
• Data Management and Statistics
• Cloud computing, web, HPC/data center, cyber security, digital forensics
• Cloud computing and network infrastructure that supports smart cities
• Environment and urban monitoring
• Enabling wireless and mobile technologies for smart cities
• Fault tolerance, reliability and survivability in smart systems
• Human mobility modeling and analytics
• Mobile crowdsourcing for urban analytics
• QoS and QoE of smart city systems, applications, and services
• Sensing and IoT for smart cities
• Software-defined data center
• Computing, big data and analytics
• Open data and big data analytics
• Big data for urban informatics
• Spatial data mining and visual analytics
• Urban spatial analytics
• Predictive analytics and risk intelligence
• Machine-to-Machine solutions
• Internet of Things (IoT) and smart cities
• Smart water management
• Smart waste management
• New urban vehicles
• Charging and locking technology for shared-use vehicle systems
• Smart energy management
• Smart grid technologies and network communications, new green energy technologies and green buildings
• Smart integrated grids

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3. GIS, GPS, and Remote Sensing

• Geospatial Technology
• GPS (Global Positioning Systems)
• GIS (Geographical Information Systems)
• GIS for Environmental Assessment
• Smart Geographic Information Management
• Environmental monitoring technologies
• Environmental Remote Sensing Applications

4. AI and Green Society

• AI-enabled smart sensing systems
• AI-enabled smart city
• AI-enabled green vehicle, green home, green buildings and green anything
• AI-enabled green industrial automation and control
• Intelligent Transport Systems and control
• AI for energy efficiency in aerial/UAV communication networks
• Machine learning for green social networks
• Applications of blockchain in energy management and trading
• Transport and logistics efficiency, e.g., applications to road traffic optimization and supply chain management
• Economics and pricing for green systems, services and applications
• Artificial intelligence and machine learning for green wireless communication systems
• Wireless power transfer and energy harvesting for wireless communications
• Energy efficiency for Wearables, Body Sensor Networks, and Smart Portable devices

5. Smart Environments  

• Artificial and computational intelligence
• Reliability, privacy and trust
• Networking and Communication
• Internet of things, ubiquitous and pervasive computing
• Sensors and actuators
• System architecture and middleware for intelligent environments
• AIoT and smart cities
• Remote control of devices
• Device communications
• Sensory information acquisition/dissemination
• Enhanced services by intelligent devices
• Networking standards
• Predictive decision making capabilities
• Connected smart street lighting