Smart Cities: Multidisciplinary Approach

Jun 5, 2019·
Petar Šolić
,
Luigi Patrono
Toni Perković
Toni Perković
,
Vincenzo Stornelli

Abstract

Smart Cities are considered to support the economic growth, human health and wellness, energy efficiency, transportation.Building and improving Smart Cities has been in focus for both scientific and professional community as it is expected to provide new research opportunities and infrastructure for new services.To make Smart Cities evolve, a strong multidisciplinary approach is required to improve both hardware and software infrastructures.In this Special Issue we solicit various contributions that deals with different concerns that ranges from device-based, to simulation and app-based improvements.Given contributions describe hardware support and its prototypes, supporting software and simulation-based architectures all presented as enabler for Smart Cities.In total, 10 papers were accepted on the given topic.Paper “A Decentralized Personal Data Store based on Ethereum: Towards GDPR Compliance” authored by M.Alessi, A.Camillò, E.Giangreco, M.Matera, S.Pino, and D.Storelli propose a decentralised approach for personal, sensitive data sharing by taking care of centrality and GDPR.The presented system, given in the form of the prototype, presents novel IoTready personal data sharing management systems based on a distributed environment.The developed prototype takes an advantage of distributed technologies: IPFS and Ethereum, therefore assuring the absence of centralized authorities in order to avoid the possibility of illegal exploitation of personal information.In the paper “Arduino-Based Solution for In-Car-Abandoned Infants’ Controlling Remotely Managed by Smartphone Application”, authored by P. Visconti, R. de Fazio, P. Costantini, S. Miccoli, and D. Cafagna an V2V/V2I (Vehicleto-Vehicle and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure) communication systems for smart city applications is presented.The aim is to provide new services and tools for making driving safer and improving the human lifestyle.The considered systems can be supported by suitable software applications for making the services more accessible.In particular, an innovative Arduinobased control system against children abandonment in cars is described for purposes of improving the safety and reliability.

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Publication

Journal of Communications Software and Systems, 15(2)

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Peer-reviewed Open access
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Toni Perković
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Toni Perković
Full Professor
I am a Full Professor in the Department of Electronics and Computing at the Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Mechanical Engineering and Naval Architecture (FESB), University of Split, Croatia, where I teach wireless network security, wireless communication networks, data science and reinforcement learning. My research spans information security, applied cryptography and the Internet of Things. Before returning to FESB in 2020, I was an assistant and then associate professor at the University Department of Forensic Sciences in Split. I co-founded the SpliTech international conference and serve on the editorial board of the Journal of Communications Software and Systems.