These days, unless something has the epithet “smart” attached to it, it is nothing. Smart Energy solutions promise cleaner, cheaper and more reliable energy. Smart Cities promise better quality of life for its citizens. We will argue that for a “system” to be SMART, it should Sense Meaningfully, Analyze and Respond Timely. Using real-world examples from the domains of Smart Energy and Smart Cit...

Information and Communication Technologies are a key enabler for the realization of future Smart Cities. These technologies can provide pervasive and ubiquitous wireless connectivity to citizens, thanks to which citizens will be able to contribute to the improvement of several urban services. Such connectivity is generally realized through mobile broadband wireless devices, such as smart phones...

As the majority of world population will be living in cities by 2050, it became a necessity for societies to build cities that are capable of meeting the needs of current and future generations in a smart way. There have been initiatives toward smart/sustainable cities that had succeeded, and others had failed. Being sustainable and smart had been used in a quite confusing way. In this paper, w...

Smart City comprises numerous technologies and depends on sensors to be aware of its environment. Vehicular sensing where vehicles on the road continuously gather, process, and share location-relevant sensor data (e.g., road condition, traffic flow) is emerging as a new network paradigm for sensor information sharing in urban environments. In this chapter, we introduce the vehicular network and...

With the majority of the population living in urban environments today, the concept of Smart Cities has become an urgent necessity. It refers to an urban transformation which, using latest ICT technologies, makes cities more efficient. Composed of a growing Internet of networks, such as the one connecting humans via cellular systems, computers via broadband connections, or objects and sensors v...

Connecting vehicles securely and reliably is pivotal to the implementation of next generation ITS applications of smart cities. With continuously growing security threats, vehicles could be exposed to a number of service attacks that could put their safety at stake. To address this concern, both US and European ITS standards have selected Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) algorithms to secure v...

Smart cities make use of information technologies to improve performance and quality of urban services, to decrease costs and to optimize resources. However, many citizens do not know all the services and advantages that a smart city offers to them. In this work, we created a geogame to involve them in different cities and, by playing with real services, increase their knowledge about smart cit...