This resource is invaluable for practitioners and researchers in the smart city domain. It will help practitioners and researchers in the smart city domain better understand existing and evolving technologies and how to better formulate their processes to provide a sustainable model for urban development.
Table of Contents
1. Digitisation of Cities and E-Governance Processes2. Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for Urbanisation
3. Smart Cities: The Internet and Internet of Things as disrupters
4. What does Federation, Interoperability and Discoverability mean for Digitisation of Urban Centres
5. Architectural Frameworks for Smart Cities
6. Standards for Data and Metadata
7. Internet and Digitalisation for all: Networks and Ecosystems
8. Distributed and ad-hoc digital infrastructures:
9. Distributed yet converged digital ecosystems: The future with Artificial Intelligence
Authors
Manas Pradhan DKSR GmbH, Berlin, Germany.Dr. Manas Pradhan is a scientist and technology expert in the domain of urbanisation and digital transformation. He currently leads the technology division of DKSR GmbH which is involved in Smart City projects in Europe and the USA. He earlier represented Germany in the NATO for civil-military cooperation for security and resilience for future urbanisation initiatives involving 30 nations. He received his bachelor's degree in computer science and engineering from ITER Bhubaneswar, India and master's degree in informatics from RWTH Aachen University, Germany. His Doctoral degree concluded from Department of Technology Systems, University of Oslo, Norway. He has been the author of many papers and book chapters for international publications on federation, interoperability, IoT, integration of legacy and innovative hardware, data and its use, Smart Cities and system architectures. As a standardization expert, he also is involved in IEEE and German National Standardization activities.
