Security in smart grid is challenging. Smart Grid is recognized as two way communication technology. There are numerous communication, intelligent, monitoring and electrical elements employed in power grid that makes it smart. These elements regularly generates cum real timely talks the critical information like monitoring data, customer energy consumption, grid status, demand response etc amon...

During the last two centuries, the urban percentage of the world's population, combined with the overall growth phenomenon, has deeply increased and it is projected to reach 60% by 2030. In this current context linked to environmental issues managing to plan sustainable cities appears a main policy target. The implementation of Zero Energy Buildings as a European target becomes a challenge for ...

A smart city in general is a very wide socio-economic-urban-technical phenomenon that inherently represents an increase certain quality of the urban environment and organism. It is not only a technical and technological level of development of infrastructure of a city, but constitutes mainly intellectual maturity and awareness of all stakeholders of the urban organism. Topic of Smart Cities is ...

The Smart City concept arises from the need to provide more intelligent and optimized applications for the development of future urban centers. Traffic monitoring including surveillance is becoming a problem as cities are getting larger and crowded with vehicles. Intelligent video applications for outdoor scenarios need for good quality, stable and robust signal in every moment or climate condi...

In this paper, we present a general overview of the perspectives and issues of Big Data and Open Data in a Smart City, with specific implications for the municipality of Trento, Italy. We start by presenting the current state of the art of Big Data and Open Data in Trento and continue by proposing a line of development for these two topics that could positively impact the everyday life of its c...

Smart Cities have often been associated with an extensive ICT infrastructure supporting citizens to learn. A Human Smart City focuses on its citizens and the human infrastructure they create being key actors of city making processes with a special attention on service design, development and delivery. A Human Smart City leverages technology to enhance citizen engagement and social innovation, t...

Due to the increasing urbanization around the world, cities are growing at fast pace and following that, many cities face problems that includes both hard and soft issues. This can for instance be transportation, energy suppliance, social inclusion and quality of life for its citizens. As a way to contribute to solving these problems the smart city concept has emerged. This concept is focusing ...