Research Challenges in Smart City Platforms
Panel: Research Challenges in Smart City Platforms— Galbraith 202-‐-‐Moderator: Niky Riga
Eric Miller, “Smart transportation involves more than real-‐time sensing and operational control. It also involves the long-‐term design of transportation networks, services and urban built form that enable efficient, sustainable day-‐to-‐day operations.”
Reza Iravani, “The modernization of the grid must include leveraging the investment in existing plant. I will discuss the role of advanced measurement and monitoring techniques in this regard.”
Charles Despins, “ICTs are a key driver of sustainability. Smart City designs must leverage a holistic approach to information and energy infrastructures as well as to adoption challenges in order to take full advantage of this opportunity.”
Silvio Cretti: “Developing software for Smart Cities is often a “do it from scratch” job. Selecting and operating ICT applications for Smart Cities often conducts to an inevitable “vendor lock in”. Having a common set of API, a standard data model and an open data publication system can help in improving portability and interoperability and in creating an open, sizeable and sustainable market for Smart Cities services. Let’s see how FIWARE (https://fiware.org), together with other initiatives like OASC (Open and Agile Smart Cities), envisages this common Smart Cities framework.”
Rick McGeer, “Two points. One, the critical need for computational POPs near data sources and consumers, and two, the critical need for ongoing, real-‐time emulation of a smart city for both prediction and to detect malware and infestation.”