A Global Perspective of Smart Cities: A Survey

Author

Pellicer, Soledad ; Santa, Guadalupe ; Bleda, Andres L. ; Maestre, Rafael ; Jara, Antonio J. ; Gomez Skarmeta, Antonio

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electron. & Home Autom., Tech. Centre of Furniture & Wood (CETEM), Murcia, Spain

fYear

2013

fDate

3-5 July 2013

Firstpage

439

Lastpage

444

Abstract

The technological revolution that has taken place in recent decades, driven by advances and developments in Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) has revolutionized the way people communicate, work, travel, live, etc. Cities need to evolve towards intelligent dynamic infrastructures that serve citizens fulfilling the criteria of energy efficiency and sustainability. This article provides an overview of the main smart city applications, and their implementation status in major cities around the world. We also present a study of patents on basic smart city technologies in order to show which countries and companies are making greater efforts to register the intellectual property. The relation between patented technologies and current ongoing smart city applications is also investigated.

Keywords

energy conservation; patents; sustainable development; town and country planning; ICT; energy efficiency; information and communication technologies; intellectual property; intelligent dynamic infrastructures; patented technologies; smart city technologies; sustainability; Cities and towns; Companies; Cultural differences; Monitoring; Patents; Sociology; Statistics; networks communication; sensors; smart cities;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Innovative Mobile and Internet Services in Ubiquitous Computing (IMIS), 2013 Seventh International Conference on

Conference_Location

Taichung

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/IMIS.2013.79

Filename

6603712