Smart cities (SCs) are becoming highly sophisticated ecosystems at which innovative
solutions and smart services are being deployed. These ecosystems consider SCs as data …

Every time an Internet of Things (IoT) solution is deployed, every time a smartphone owner
connects her/his wireless device to a wearable activity-tracker, every time groups of citizens …

The widespread availability of smartphones have enabled the blossom of Mobile Crowd
Sensing (MCS) projects, whose goal is to involve users in participatory tasks aimed at …

Traditional urban pollution monitoring systems suffer of the sole presence of fixed stations.
Data gathered from such devices are precise, thanks to the equipment quality and to …

The exponential amount of geospatial data that has been accumulated in an accelerated
pace has inevitably motivated the scientific community to examine novel parallel …

In this article, we present and analyze MUSANet, a hierarchical, distributed, context-aware
architecture for collecting, processing, and distributing data in smart cities. We discuss some …

Urban pollution control systems suffer from the presence of fixed stations in a greater
number than mobile monitoring devices. Data gathered from such stations provide detailed …

The ever-progressing advancements in urban growth and technological development in
recent decades have caused a noticeable increase of the phenomenon of …

The use of information technology is one way to help in solving urban problems, aiming for
the development of smart cities. Crowdsensing mechanism is an important tool in this …

Last mile delivery has become increasingly difficult in urban areas; as population increases
alongside the demand of the citizens, novel and smarter solutions are needed to cope with …