Based on the trends of divergent sensor node software evolution and on-node multi-application coexistence observed from a real smart city WSAN deployment, we propose requirements for optimum exploitation of the infrastructure. In particular, we advocate the need to switch between concurrency models depending on usage context.

In this chapter, we discuss the security technologies that are important in guaranteeing the good quality of communication within smart organizations. We first briefly review the various forms of communication that can be used in the current information age, before outlining the possible threats that can be faced in each communication medium. We then describe the relevant security technologies ...

The capacity of automatically modeling photographic composition is valuable for many real-world machine vision applications such as digital photography, image retrieval, image understanding, and image aesthetics assessment. The triangle technique is among those indispensable composition methods on which professional photographers often rely. This paper proposes a system that can identify promin...

Eco-knowledge city is a new concept for the world’s urban studies, an all-new urban form, and concept of urban development and strategy. The core of eco-knowledge city is to surpass the traditional urban development model of industrial society strategically, to purposely encourage citizens to learn and share knowledge equally, and to enhance creativity through the cultivation of knowledge, tech...

Complex event processing is currently more dominated by proprietary systems and vertical products than open technologies. In the future, however, internet-connected people and things moving between smart spaces in smart cities will create a huge volume of events in a multi-actor, multi-platform environment. End-user applications would benefit from the possibility for open access to all relevant...

The paper presents the vehicles integrated monitoring system giving priorities for emergency vehicles. The described system exploits the data gathered by: geographical positioning systems and geographical information systems. The digital maps and roadside cameras provide the dispatchers with aims for in town ambulances traffic management. The method of vehicles positioning in the city network a...

Inventory of road infrastructure represents a key application for integrated mobile mapping systems. The classical approach is to post-process geo-referenced imagery that has been captured from mobile mapping vans while driving within the road. Problems arise then within city centres where dense traffic and parking vehicles may often hinder occlusion free image captures of the objects of intere...

Raymond Isaacs is an architect and an Assistant Professor in the School ofLandscape Architecture at Louisiana State University. He recently completed his doctoral dissenation in landscape architecture. He has taught urban design at the Technical University ofDresden, Germany. His research involves the design and experience ofurban places,focusing on aesthetics, nature, and issues of contemporar...

The aim of th is research is to produce an urban land cover map ready to be used for planning and management. To extract the reliable information from the selected remote sensing (RS) data, a knowledge-based method based on a rule-based approach is constructed. The result of the knowledge-based technique is compared with the result of a standard maximum likelihood classification (MLC) method an...

Recent developments in Structure-from-Motion approaches allow the reconstructions of large parts of urban scenes. The available models can in turn be used for accurate image-based localization via pose estimation from 2D-to-3D correspondences. In this paper, we analyze a recently proposed localization method that achieves state-of-the-art localization performance using a visual vocabulary quant...