Intelligent cities : enabling tools and technology /: enabling tools and technology. ([2015])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Pethuru Raj, Anupama C. Raman.
• Authors: Raj, Pethuru
• Other Names: Raman, Anupama C
• Contents: Envisioning Intelligent Cities; Introduction; Unfolding the Smarter Planet Vision; The Need for Intelligent Cities; City-Specific Challenges; Trickling Urbanization Challenges; The Vast Potentials of Smart Cities; City Transformation Strategy; Infrastructure Optimization; System Infrastructure; The Adoption of Versatile Technologies The Assimilation of Architectures Services Are Everywhere Devices Are Connected and Cyber-Enabled for People-Centric Services Process Excellence; Make Sense Out of Data for Big Insights; The Key Trends in IT Toward Smart Cities The Shift Toward People IT; The Era of Smart Computing; Smarter Environments The Need for Cloud-Enablement A Few Smart City Use Cases; Smart City Infrastructure and Platform Solutions; Smart City Infrastructures; Leading Smart City Platforms; The Context-Aware Framework for Smart CityApplications Data Collection and Cleansing Data Storage Data Interpretation Cloud-Based; Data Dissemination; Conclusion; References; ; Mobile Technologies and Applications for Intelligent Cities ; Introduction; Evolution of Mobile Wireless Technologies; Mobile Application Development Platforms; Challenges of Intelligent Cities and Solutions Offered by Mobile Wireless Networks and Devices Mobile Payments and Ticketing Intelligent Energy Conservation Using Mobile Devices Analysis and Commercial Insights Drivers for Mobile BI Adoption; Key Trends in Mobile BI Steps to Get Started with Mobile BI Mobile Healthcare; Wireless Fleet Management; Enabling Mobile Technologies for an Intelligent City; Mobile Augmented Reality; Conclusion; References; ; The Role and Relevance of Software-Defined Cloud Infrastructures ; Introduction; About Cloud Technology; Key Motivations for Cloud-Enabled Environments; Why Cloud Technology Is Being Aggressively Pursued by Worldwide Governments; A Look at Cloud-Inspired Enterprise Transformations; The Emergence of Cloud Environments Energy Optimization; Cloud-Enabled and Hosted Smarter City Applications A Cloud-Enabled Context-Aware Framework for Smarter Environments; A Sample Use Case; Cloud-Based Smarter Home Applications; Cloud-Enabled Smart Grids A Cloud-Based Monitoring Framework for Smart Homes Cloud-Inspired Smarter Healthcare Services; Sensor-Cloud Integration for Smarter Cities Social and Sensor Data Fusion in Cloud Integrating Sensors with Cloud Using Dynamic Proxies; The Next-Generation Hybrid Clouds The Compelling Use Cases for Next-Generation Hybrid Clouds Use Cases—Computation and Actionable Insights Storage Use Cases Data Dissemination; Software-Defined Infrastructures and Software-Defined Environments; Building Blocks of Software-Defined Data Centers Software-Defined Networking The Key Motivations for SDN; Tending Toward Network Virtualization The Need of SDN for the Cloud Software-Defined Storage; Cloud-Based Big Data Storage Key Characteristics of Software-Defined Storage; Conclusion; References; ; Big Data Analytics for Real-Time City Insights ; Introduction; Data Analytics and Intelligent Cities; The Prominent Sources of Big Data Describing the Big Data World; Big Data Characteristics A Perspective on Big Data Computing Why Big Data Computing?; The Application Domains; Describing Big Data Analytics The Big Trends of BDA BDA Use Cases; Machine Data Analytics by Splunk® ; Open Data for Next-Generation Cities; Edge Data for Cities of the Future Edge Data for Smarter Cities Edge Data for Smart Retailers Edge Data for Smart Automobiles; Edge Data for Smart Manufacturing; Edge Data for Facilities and Asset Management; Integrated BDA Platforms; Software-Defined Infrastructures for BDA; Civitas: The Smart City Middleware Hitachi Smart City Platform Data Collection Data Analysis Application Coordination; BDA Frameworks and Infrastructure Apache Hadoop Software Framework NoSQL Databases; Conclusion; References; ; The Internet of Things for Connected and Cognitive Cities ; Introduction; Envisioning the IoT Era; Emerging IoT Trends Deeper Digitization Toward Smart Objects The Growing Device Ecosystem Software-Defined Cloud Infrastructures Big Data Analytics; The IoT Reference Architecture; Smart City Communication Architecture; Network Architectures for IoT Applications IP-Based Connectivity Models; Prominent IoT Technologies; The IoT: The Key Results; The Advantages of the IoT Concept for Smart Cities The Co-Creation of IoT-Enabled Services for Smarter Cities Examples of IoT-Inspired Services Co-Created and Tested; The Role of Advanced Sensing in Smart Cities Sensors Everywher
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Copyright Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 629.8; Municipal engineering -- Data processing; Intelligent control systems; Community development, Urban; TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Engineering (General); Community development, Urban; Intelligent control systems; Municipal engineering -- Data processing; Electronic books; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781482299984; 1482299984
• Related ISBNs: 9781482299977
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references.; Note: Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed June 8, 2015).
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