Blockchain-Based Solutions for Accessibility in Smart Cities

Kumar Abhishek

In the evolving landscape of smart cities, the integration of technology and real-time data management presents a dual-edged challenge and opportunity for urban accessibility. The web of devices, from smartphones and connected cars to homes and citizens, forms the backbone of a smart city's infrastructure. As cities strive to become technologically enhanced hubs, the need for seamless accessibility becomes paramount. However, this ambitious transformation encounters hurdles such as traffic congestion, inefficient energy distribution, and concerns about air quality. Enter Blockchain-Based Solutions for Accessibility in Smart Cities , a groundbreaking exploration that addresses the issues hindering the optimal realization of smart city accessibility. This book delves into the emergence of blockchain technologies within smart city infrastructures and offers a compelling narrative on how blockchain-based solutions can be the catalyst for overcoming these challenges. This innovative book is crafted with a specific audience in mind – researchers, faculty, and students committed to shaping a secure ecosystem for smart city infrastructure. By merging concepts of security, smart city infrastructure, and blockchain, this multidisciplinary approach ensures that readers gain a nuanced understanding of the challenges at hand. Whether immersed in academia or eager to contribute to the evolution of smart cities, Blockchain-Based Solutions for Accessibility in Smart Cities is a valuable resource that empowers readers to navigate the complexities and unlock the full potential of blockchain in urban accessibility.

  • Format: Hardback
  • ISBN: 9798369334027
  • Publication Date: Jul 2024
  • Availability: Not Yet Available - Pre-Order Now

Secure and Intelligent IoT-Enabled Smart Cities

Sushil Kumar Singh

Smart cities are experiencing a rapid evolution. The integration of technologies such as 5G, Internet of Things (IoT), Artificial Intelligence (AI), and blockchain has ushered in transformative applications, enhancing the quality of urban life. However, this evolution comes with its own challenges, most notably in security and privacy. Secure and Intelligent IoT-Enabled Smart Cities addresses these concerns, exploring theoretical frameworks and empirical research findings. The book embarks on the foundational elements of the Internet of Things, delving into the convergence of IoT and smart city applications, elucidating the layered architecture of IoT, and highlighting the security issues inherent in IoT-enabled Smart Cities. This book pinpoints the challenges smart city infrastructures face and offers innovative and pragmatic solutions to fortify their security. This book targets professionals and researchers immersed in the dynamic field of secure and intelligent environments within IoT-enabled smart city applications. It is a valuable resource for executives grappling with the strategic implications of emerging technologies in smart healthcare, smart parking, smart manufacturing, smart transportation, and beyond.

  • Format: Hardback
  • ISBN: 9798369323731
  • Publication Date: Apr 2024
  • Availability: In Stock - Despatched Within 5 Working Days

Application and Adoption of Robotic Process Automation for Smart Cities

R. K. Tailor

In the present era, technological developments are increasing the efficiency and potential of each stakeholder in a business. Robotic process automation is one of the key areas that can be applied in business organizations and corporate sectors to enhance productivity and show a path to success. Application and Adoption of Robotic Process Automation for Smart Cities provides relevant theoretical frameworks and various developments in the area of robotic process automation. Covering topics such as banking and financial services, public engagement, and smart cities, this premier reference source is a valuable resource for business leaders, IT managers, government officials, engineers, students and educators of higher education, researchers, and academicians.

  • Format: Hardback
  • ISBN: 9781668471937
  • Publication Date: Nov 2023
  • Availability: In Stock - Despatched Within 5 Working Days

Management, Technology, and Economic Growth in Smart and Sustainable Cities

Jorge A. Ruiz-Vanoye

Rapid urbanization poses significant challenges for cities worldwide, demanding sustainable development solutions. However, traditional city management approaches often struggle to address the complex interplay of economic growth, technology, and environmental considerations. The lack of comprehensive guidance and practical strategies hinders the establishment of smart and sustainable cities, putting long-term urban sustainability and the well-being of present and future generations at risk. Management, Technology, and Economic Growth in Smart and Sustainable Cities provides a timely and essential solution to the intricate challenges faced by urban areas. Edited by renowned academic scholar Jorge Ruiz Vanoye, this book features practical contributions from experts across diverse fields. By leveraging mathematical modeling, artificial intelligence, and advanced technologies, it offers tangible strategies and insights for the optimal management of smart and sustainable cities. Ideal for professionals, researchers, and executives involved in smart and sustainable city development, this book covers key topics such as smart governance, energy, healthcare, transportation, education, farming, industry, environment, and society. It equips readers with practical guidance and innovative solutions, empowering them to navigate the complexities of modern urban management, drive efficient resource utilization, enhance the quality of life, and foster sustainable economic growth.

  • Format: Hardback
  • ISBN: 9798369303733
  • Publication Date: Oct 2023
  • Availability: In Stock - Despatched Within 5 Working Days

Handbook of Research on Network-Enabled IoT Applications for Smart City Services

K. Hemant Kumar Reddy

The rapid growth of IoT and its applications in smart cities pose significant challenges for academic scholars. The increasing number of interconnected devices and the massive amounts of data they generate strain traditional networks, leading to inefficiencies and security vulnerabilities. Additionally, the centralized control plane in Software Defined Networks (SDN) presents a single point of failure, hindering network performance, while IoT devices themselves are susceptible to attacks, compromising user data and privacy. To address these pressing issues, Network-Enabled IoT Applications for Smart City Services offers a compelling solution . Edited by Dr. K. Hemant Kumar Reddy, Dr. Diptendu SinhaRoy, and Tapas Mishra, this book advocates leveraging SDN to handle high-frequency data streams effectively. It also proposes the integration of blockchain technology to enhance security and reliability in IoT applications, offering a roadmap for scholars to improve network efficiency, security, and reliability in IoT and smart city domains. With their extensive expertise, the authors provide academic scholars with a comprehensive and innovative resource that inspires further research and development in this evolving field, enabling them to make significant contributions to the advancement of IoT and smart city technologies.

  • Format: Hardback
  • ISBN: 9798369307441
  • Publication Date: Sep 2023
  • Availability: In Stock - Despatched Within 5 Working Days

Cyber-Physical System Solutions for Smart Cities

Vanamoorthy Muthumanikandan

In the implementation of smart cities, sensors and actuators that produce and consume enormous amounts of data in a variety of formats and ontologies will be incorporated into the system as a whole. The data produced by the participating devices need to be adequately categorized and connected to reduce duplication and conflicts. Newer edge computing techniques are needed to manage enormous amounts of data quickly and avoid overloading the cloud infrastructure. Cyber-Physical System Solutions for Smart Cities considers the most recent developments in several crucial software services and cyber infrastructures that are important to smart cities. Covering key topics such as artificial intelligence, smart data, big data, and computer science, this premier reference source is ideal for industry professionals, government officials, policymakers, scholars, researchers, academicians, instructors, and students.

  • Format: Hardback
  • ISBN: 9781668477564
  • Publication Date: Aug 2023
  • Availability: In Stock - Despatched Within 5 Working Days

Smart Sustainable Cities Profile: Tbilisi, Georgia

United Nations Economic Commission for Europe

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9789211014693
  • Publication Date: Jun 2023
  • Availability: Temporarily out of stock: Usually despatched in 14-18 days

Advances in Explainable AI Applications for Smart Cities

Mangesh M. Ghonge

As smart cities become more prevalent, the need for explainable AI (XAI) applications has become increasingly important. Advances in Explainable AI Applications for Smart Cities is a co-edited book that showcases the latest research and development in XAI for smart city applications. This book covers a wide range of topics, including medical diagnosis, finance and banking, judicial systems, military training, manufacturing industries, autonomous vehicles, insurance claim management, and cybersecurity solutions. Through its diverse case studies and research, this book provides valuable insights into the importance of XAI in smart city applications. This book is an essential resource for undergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers, academicians, industry professionals, and scientists working in research laboratories. It provides a comprehensive overview of XAI concepts, advantages over AI, and its applications in smart city development. By showcasing the impact of XAI on various smart city applications, the book enables readers to understand the importance of XAI in creating more sustainable and efficient smart cities. Additionally, the book addresses the open challenges and research issues related to XAI in modern smart cities, providing a roadmap for future research in this field. Overall, this book is a valuable resource for anyone interested in understanding the importance of XAI in smart city applications.

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9781668463628
  • Publication Date: Jun 2023
  • Availability: In Stock - Despatched Within 5 Working Days

Sustainable Smart Cities

Amjad Almusaed

  • Format: Hardback
  • ISBN: 9781803567648
  • Publication Date: Mar 2023
  • Availability: In Stock - Despatched Within 5 Working Days

Impact of Digital Twins in Smart Cities Development

Ingrid Vasiliu-Feltes

Recently, a new digital twin consortium has been established that aims to deploy digital twin technology in new markets as well as in the development of smart cities. Designing smart cities, smart communities, and smart ecosystems powered by optimal digital twin deployments is a vision that currently only futurists can entertain and requires some time to reach large-scale adoption. However, it is incumbent upon us as a society to educate and train future generations on how to leverage digital twin technologies in order to optimize our daily lives as well as increase our efficiency, productivity, and safety. Impact of Digital Twins in Smart Cities Development provides insights regarding the global landscape for current digital twin research and deployments and highlights some of the challenges and opportunities faced during large-scale adoptions. Critical domains such as ethics, data governance, cybersecurity, inclusion, diversity, and sustainability are also addressed and considered. Covering topics such as digital identity and digital economics, this reference work is ideal for urban planners, engineers, policymakers, industry leaders, scientists, economists, academicians, practitioners, researchers, instructors, and students.

  • Format: Hardback
  • ISBN: 9781668438336
  • Publication Date: Feb 2023
  • Availability: In Stock - Despatched Within 5 Working Days

Data-Driven Mathematical Modeling in Smart Cities

Sabyasachi Pramanik

A smart city utilizes ICT technologies to improve the working effectiveness, share various data with the citizens, and enhance political assistance and societal wellbeing. The fundamental needs of a smart and sustainable city are utilizing smart technology for enhancing municipal activities, expanding monetary development, and improving citizens' standards of living. Data-Driven Mathematical Modeling in Smart Cities discusses new mathematical models in smart and sustainable cities using big data, visualization tools in mathematical modeling, machine learning-based mathematical modeling, and more. It further delves into privacy and ethics in data analysis. Covering topics such as deep learning, optimization-based data science, and smart city automation, this premier reference source is an excellent resource for mathematicians, statisticians, computer scientists, civil engineers, government officials, students and educators of higher education, librarians, researchers, and academicians.

  • Format: Hardback
  • ISBN: 9781668464083
  • Publication Date: Jan 2023
  • Availability: In Stock - Despatched Within 5 Working Days

Urban Life and the Ambient in Smart Cities, Learning Cities, and Future Cities

H. Patricia McKenna

The topic of urban life and the ambient in smart cities, learning cities, and future cities is a timely one, fitting as it does in the world today by responding in an interdisciplinary way across many areas of research and practice. It is essential for researchers to think about and engage with the notion of flourishing in increasingly challenging environments in smarter ways. Urban Life and the Ambient in Smart Cities, Learning Cities, and Future Cities expands upon explorations of urban life to the ambient. As such, perspectives are offered in this work on urban life in the context of smart cities, learning cities, and future cities, enriched by understandings of the ambient, infusing the interactions of people and technologies in 21st-century environments with increased awareness, at the moment. Covering topics such as ambient learning, smart homes, and extended realities, this premier reference work is an essential resource for students and educators of higher education, architects, urban planners, instructional designers, sociologists, city officials, community leaders, librarians, researchers, and academicians.

  • Format: Hardback
  • ISBN: 9781668440964
  • Publication Date: Nov 2022
  • Availability: In Stock - Despatched Within 5 Working Days

Research Anthology on BIM and Digital Twins in Smart Cities

In recent years, smart cities have been an emerging area of interest across the world. Due to this, numerous technologies and tools, such as building information modeling (BIM) and digital twins, have been developed to help achieve smart cities. To ensure research is continuously up to date and new technologies are considered within the field, further study is required. The Research Anthology on BIM and Digital Twins in Smart Cities considers the uses, challenges, and opportunities of BIM and digital twins within smart cities. Covering key topics such as data, design, urban areas, technology, and sustainability, this major reference work is ideal for industry professionals, government officials, computer scientists, policymakers, researchers, scholars, practitioners, instructors, and students.

  • Format: Hardback
  • ISBN: 9781668475485
  • Publication Date: Sep 2022
  • Availability: In Stock - Despatched Within 5 Working Days

Smart Sustainable Cities Profiles: Ålesund, Asker, Bærum, Rana and Trondheim; Norway

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9789211172850
  • Publication Date: Jun 2022
  • Availability: In Stock - Despatched Within 5-7 Working Days

Advances in Deep Learning Applications for Smart Cities

Rajeev Kumar

Within the past decade, technology has grown exponentially, and governments have promoted smart cities. Emerging smart cities have become both crucibles and showrooms for the practical application of the internet of things (IoT), cloud computing, and the integration of big data into everyday life. This complex concoction requires new thinking of the synergistic utilization of deep learning and blockchain methods and data-driven decision making with automation infrastructure, autonomous transportation, and more. Advances in Deep Learning Applications for Smart Cities provides a global perspective on current and future trends concerning the integration of deep learning and blockchain for smart cities. It provides valuable insights on the best practices and success factors for smart cities. Covering topics such as digital healthcare, object detection methods, and power consumption, this book is an excellent reference for researchers, scientists, libraries, industry experts, government organizations, students and educators of higher education, business professionals, communication and marketing agencies, entrepreneurs, and academicians.

  • Format: Hardback
  • ISBN: 9781799897101
  • Publication Date: May 2022
  • Availability: In Stock - Despatched Within 5 Working Days

Blockchain Technologies for Sustainable Development in Smart Cities

P. Swarnalatha

Blockchain technology has great potential to radically change our socio-economic systems by guaranteeing secure transactions between untrusted entities, reducing costs, and simplifying many processes. However, employing blockchain techniques in sustainable applications development for smart cities still has some technical challenges and limitations. Blockchain Technologies for Sustainable Development in Smart Cities investigates blockchain-enabled technology for smart city developments and big data applications. This book provides relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings in the area. Covering topics such as digital finance, smart city technology, and data processing architecture, this book is an essential reference for electricians, policymakers, local governments, city committees, computer scientists, IT professionals, professors and students of higher education, researchers, and academicians.

  • Format: Hardback
  • ISBN: 9781799892748
  • Publication Date: Feb 2022
  • Availability: In Stock - Despatched Within 5 Working Days

Planning and Designing Smart Cities in Developing Nations

Saleem Gregory Zoughbi

As smart cities are rapidly developing, it is vital that they are built on a combination of support and active participation of self-decisive, independent, and aware citizens by ensuring strong human capital, social capital, and information and communications technology infrastructure. Due to this evolution across the globe, it is critical to examine how others are working to create smarter cities in order to learn and revolutionize the way cities are planned and executed. Planning and Designing Smart Cities in Developing Nations explores smart city implementation in developing countries by highlighting the challenges and opportunities of smart cities and showcasing various developments and accomplishments and presents a framework to implement strategic plans for smart development. Covering topics such as smart technologies and social capital, it is ideal for policymakers, economic and development professionals, city planners and designers, government officials, academicians, professors, and students.

  • Format: Hardback
  • ISBN: 9781668435090
  • Publication Date: Jan 2022
  • Availability: In Stock - Despatched Within 5 Working Days

Smart Cities

Junfeng Jiao

  • Format: Paperback
  • ISBN: 9781792463303
  • Publication Date: Dec 2021
  • Availability: In Stock - Despatched Within 5-7 Working Days

Role of Libraries, Archives, and Museums in Achieving Civic Engagement and Social Justice in Smart Cities

Mohamed Taher

In achieving civic engagement and social justice in smart cities, literacy programs are offered in the society by two essential information service providers: libraries and museums. Although the library and museum services are documented in literature, there is little evidence of community-led library or museum services that make a full circle in understanding community-library and community-museum relationships. The Handbook of Research on the Role of Libraries and Museums in Achieving Civic Engagement and Social Justice in Smart Cities examines the application of tools and techniques in library and museum literacy in achieving civic engagement and social justice. It also introduces a new outlook in the services of libraries and museums. Covering topics such as countering fake news, human rights literacies, and outreach activities, this book is essential for community-based organizations, librarians, museum administrations, education leaders, information professionals, smart city design planners, digital tool developers, policymakers engaged in diversity, researchers, and academicians.

  • Format: Hardback
  • ISBN: 9781799883630
  • Publication Date: Nov 2021
  • Availability: In Stock - Despatched Within 5 Working Days

Smart Cities and Machine Learning in Urban Health

J. Joshua Thomas

The perception of smart cities encompasses a strategy that uses different types of technologies, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine learning and in which, through the internet of things (IoT) and sensor-based data collection, the strategy extrapolates information using insights gained from that data to manage or monitor or track assets, resources, and services efficiently in an urban area. Both these models deeply affect the localities where they are applied and can create together immense possibilities for urban recovery, better quality of life, physical and mental health protection, and economic and social redevelopment. Smart Cities and Machine Learning in Urban Health promotes interdisciplinary work that develops and illustrates the concept of resilience in relation to smart city and machine learning. The book examines the ability of an area and its communities to recover quickly from difficulties; the rigidness and resistance of an area and its communities to possible crisis; the ability of an area, its communities, infrastructure, and business to spring back into shape; and the responsiveness and mitigation towards the crisis with a special look at the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The research's theoretical foundation rests on a wide range of non-architectural sources, primarily AI, sociology, urban studies, and technological development, but it explores everything on cases taken from real cities, thus transforming them into pieces of architectural interest. Covering topics such as carbon emissions, digital healthcare systems, and urban transformation, this book is an essential resource for graduate and post-graduate students, policymakers, researchers, university faculty, engineers, public management, hospital administration, professors, and academicians.

  • Format: Hardback
  • ISBN: 9781799871767
  • Publication Date: Nov 2021
  • Availability: In Stock - Despatched Within 5 Working Days