Cities nowadays face complex challenges to meet objectives regarding socio-economic development and quality of life. The concept of “smart cities” is a response to these challenges. This paper explores “smart cities” as environments of open and user-driven innovation for experimenting and validating Future Internet-enabled services. Based on an analysis of the current landscape of smart city pi...

this article deals with the social theories and analysis of the theoreticiansconcerning the global changes and the foundations of global system and the new worldorder. it also deals with different phases in the theories of future thoughts and thederived mechanism and analyses the urban space as a key issue in social order in theheart of social theories. it also depicts the theories of great the...

Session summary Dave Carter of Manchester Digital Development Agency introduced and chaired the session which explored the challenges facing various approaches to smart city applications and services, showcasing existing results and identifying recommendations for future developments. He emphasised the need for cities and RDI communities to cooperate on a practical level, and he stressed the cr...

Sensor and actuator networks have been the focus of a lot of research for quite a number of years now, and results in these fields had a tremendous influence on computer science as a whole. Take for example the fact that energy efficiency questions have never played a major role before, and today, there are journals, conferences, and complete research programs on this important issue. In genera...

With the spreading of sensors networks, the management of business reality has been progressively changed exploiting the inherent features of the future IoT and smart objects. Today’s enterprises need to become self-aware not only in terms of their networked ecosystem but also in face of their inner sub-systems and devices. Indeed, the integration of service and event technology, smart agents a...

This special issue on Future Internet Services and Architectures: Trends and Visions is a selection of seven papers presented at the Workshop Future Internet Architectures, (open) second Euro-NF Workshop and Future Internet Cluster Meeting, June 9, 2009, Santander, Spain; co-located with the EU ICT Mobile Summit 2009. In this special issue, novel work and ideas are presented including first qua...

Future Internet and smart cities are creating a very promising paradigm for providing advanced services to citizens. The paradigm of e-Health forms a valuable yet demanding use case for design, develop, deploy and provide related services. The aim of LiveCity project is to empower the citizens of a city to interact with each other in a more productive efficient and socially useful way by using ...

Reflecting on the governance of smart cities, the state-of-the-art this paper advances offers a critique of recent city ranking and future Internet accounts of their development. Armed with these critical insights, it goes on to explain smart cities in terms of the social networks, cultural attributes and environmental capacities, vis-a-vis, vital ecologies of the intellectual capital, wealth c...

Improving efficiency of city services and facilitating a more sustainable development of cities are the main drivers of the smart city concept. Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) play a crucial role in making cities smarter, more accessible and more open. In this paper we present a novel architecture exploiting major concepts from the Future Internet (FI) paradigm addressing the c...

Enhancing the effectiveness of city services and assisting on a more sustainable development of cities are two of the crucial drivers of the smart city concept. This paper portrays a field trial that leverages an internet of things (IoT) platform intended for bringing value to existing and future smart city infrastructures. The paper highlights how IoT creates the basis permitting integration o...