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.
- 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
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