The Automated City
Internet of Things and Ubiquitous Artificial Intelligence
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We envision an increasing presence of devices with agency and autonomous machines in public spaces (e.g., automated vehicles, urban robots and drones) beyond the confines of constrained environments such as a ...
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Drone services are expected to emerge in many areas around the world in the near future and this is generating increasing interest. While there is a proliferation of ideas for various applications that can be ...
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A set of quality metrics (e.g., timeliness, completeness) together represent the Quality of Context (QoC); their values determine the usability of context to context consumers (IoT applications). Therefore, ob...
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We conclude this book by discussing several questions on the city that are on a more philosophical tone.
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This chapter reviews the notion (and visions) of the Automated City in popular press, and in research publications, and then attempts to outline a conceptualisation of the Automated City. We first discuss what...
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The previous chapter discussed particular issues in relation to Automated Vehicles, urban robots and urban drones. This chapter discusses visions, perspectives and challenges of the Automated City more general...
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Smart Grid is one of the critical technologies that provide essential services to sustain social and economic developments. There are various cyber attacks on the Smart Grid system in recent years, which resul...
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The chapter discusses the rise of technology usage in cities, and how the recent COVID-19 crisis provided an opportunity for technologists to meaningfully consider how their technologies could be useful in cit...
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As illustrations of what constitutes the Automated City, this chapter highlights (among many) three types of technologies: (1) automated vehicles, (2) robots in indoor public spaces and outdoors (on city stree...
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Vehicular cooperation mechanisms are known to provide efficiency and scalability benefits but for the mechanisms to be human-centric, there is a need for them to be robust and resilient to anti-social behaviou...
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10th EAI International Conference, MONAMI 2020, Chiba, Japan, November 10–12, 2020, Proceedings
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Human activity recognition using embedded mobile and embedded sensors is becoming increasingly important. Scaling up from individuals to groups, that is, group activity recognition, has attracted significant a...
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Numerous types of sensor data can be gathered via devices on mobile sensors, such as smartphones and smartwatches as well as things endowed with sensors. Such sensor data from disparate sources can be aggregat...
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The development of energy efficient long and short range networking technologies among mobile devices is enabling the device mesh mentioned in Chap. 1, between all types of mobile devices, including smart vehi...
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There have been tremendous recent developments in drone (unmanned aerial vehicles, or UAVs) technology [3] in terms of control and automatic flight of drones, so that while regulations and drone protection mea...
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Against the backdrop of technology trends such as cloud computing, IoT, mobile and wearable computing, crowd computing, a culture of sharing, collective computing, and swarm dynamics, this book has attempted t...