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Helal, Sumi, and Christopher N. Bull. "From Smart Homes to Smart-Ready Homes and Communities." Dementia and Geriatric Cognitive Disorders 47, no. 3 (2019): 157–63. http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000497803.
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Background: People have various and changing needs as they age, and the number of people living with some form of dementia is steadily increasing. Smart homes have a unique potential to provide assisted living but are often designed rigidly with a specific and fixed problem in mind. Objectives: To make smart-ready homes and communities that can be adaptively and easily updated over time to support varying user needs and to deliver the needed assistance, empowerment, and living independence. Method: The design and deployment of programmable assistive environment for older adults. Results: The use of platform technology (a special form of what is known today as the Internet of Things or IoT) has enabled the decoupling of goal setting and application development from sensing and assistive technology deployment and insertion in the assistive environment. Personalising a smart home or changing its applications and its interfaces dynamically as the user needs change was possible and has been demonstrated successfully in one house – the Gator Tech Smart House. Scaling up the platform technology approach to a planned living community is underway at one of UK’s National Health Services (NHS) Healthy New Town projects. Conclusions: There is a great need to integrate technology with living spaces to provide assistance and independent living, but to smarten these spaces for lifelong living, the technology and the smart home applications must be flexible, adaptive, and changeable over time. However, people do not just live at home, they live in communities. Looking at the big picture (communities), as well as the small (homes), we consider how to progress beyond smart-ready homes towards smart-ready communities.
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Wenwen, Zhou. "Building an Urban Smart Community System Based on Association Rule Algorithms." Security and Communication Networks 2022 (July 19, 2022): 1–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/8773259.
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Intelligent system development is an integral component of smart community development and has a significant impact on the development of smart communities. Some cities continue to implement personalized smart community services, resulting in the formation of smart city communities with unique characteristics. Urban smart communities are based on the principle of owner-occupant convenience, integrating a wealth of community information and making it more relevant to each and every resident through intelligent management. Increasing information transmission rates have enhanced the ability of smart community systems to integrate information, but the smart community recommendation method is still based on traditional categorized recommendations. This paper addresses the deficiency of recommended information in smart urban communities. By analyzing user interaction and operation data, we can determine the interest and recognition of browsing attractions among users. Compared to conventional classification recommendations, weighted association rules can identify potentially very important rules applicable to small groups, thereby meeting the needs of various groups and enabling personalized services. Through continuous feedback from user behavior data, the system gradually identifies the community information that users are interested in during the specific recommendation process. After testing, the smart community system’s recommendation accuracy and real-time performance have vastly improved in comparison to categorical recommendations, and it can effectively meet the needs of tenants for community recommendations.
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Barone, Giuseppe, Giovanni Brusco, Alessandro Burgio, Daniele Menniti, Anna Pinnarelli, Michele Motta, Nicola Sorrentino, and Pasquale Vizza. "A Real-Life Application of a Smart User Network." Energies 11, no. 12 (December 15, 2018): 3504. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en11123504.
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Smart Community microgrids could help to improve overall energy efficiency reducing transmission and distribution losses and allowing the implementation of optimal load control and resource dispatching. In this context, the authors have proposed the realization of DC smart microgrids. They are considered as a future prospective according to the increase of DC loads and DC output type distribution energy sources such as Photovoltaic and energy storage systems. In this paper, a DC smart microgrid, called Smart User Network, realized in a real-life application as a part of pilot site under the national research project PON04_00146 Smart cities and Communities and Social innovation named “Reti, Edifici, Strade Nuovi Obiettivi Virtuosi per l’Ambiente e l’Energia” (RES NOVAE), is illustrated. The Smart User Network, is managed by a distributed and decentralized control logic, the DC Bus Signaling, which allows the converters to operate independently of each other according to a decentralized logic. It guarantees the reliability, the continuity and the quality of supply, optimizing the use of energy produced by renewable energy sources, also in stand-alone configuration. The most significant experimental results obtained both in grid-connected and stand-alone configuration are presented and discussed.
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Adam Prasetyo, Yuli, Muharman Lubis, Muhammad Azani Hasibuan, and Rahmat Fauzi. "Integrated Virtual Communities into User Group Management System (UGMS) for Smart Cities." Journal of Physics: Conference Series 1566 (June 2020): 012117. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1566/1/012117.
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Espe, Eunice, Vidyasagar Potdar, and Elizabeth Chang. "Prosumer Communities and Relationships in Smart Grids: A Literature Review, Evolution and Future Directions." Energies 11, no. 10 (September 21, 2018): 2528. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en11102528.
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Smart grids are robust, self-healing networks that allow bidirectional propagation of energy and information within the utility grid. This introduces a new type of energy user who consumes, produces, stores and shares energy with other grid users. Such a user is called a “prosumer.” Prosumers’ participation in the smart grid is critical for the sustainability and long-term efficiency of the energy sharing process. Thus, prosumer management has attracted increasing attention among researchers in recent years. This paper systematically examines the literature on prosumer community based smart grid by reviewing relevant literature published from 2009 to 2018 in reputed energy and technology journals. We specifically focus on two dimensions namely prosumer community groups and prosumer relationships. Based on the evaluated literature, we present eight propositions and thoroughly describe several future research directions.
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Cafiso, Salvatore, Giuseppina Pappalardo, and Nikiforos Stamatiadis. "Observed Risk and User Perception of Road Infrastructure Safety Assessment for Cycling Mobility." Infrastructures 6, no. 11 (October 26, 2021): 154. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/infrastructures6110154.
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The opportunities for data collection in smart cities and communities provide new approaches for assessing risk of roadway components. This paper presents and compares two different methodological approaches for cycling safety assessment of objective and perceived risk. Objective risk was derived from speed and direction profiles collected with Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) and camera installed on an instrumented bicycle. Safety critical events between cyclists and other road users were identified and linked to five different roadway components. A panel of experts was asked to score the severity of the safety critical events using a Delphi process to reach consensus. To estimate the perceived risk, a web-based survey was provided to the city bicyclist community asking them to score the same five roadway components with a 4-point Likert scale. A comparison between perceived and objective risk classification of the roadway components showed a good agreement when only higher severity conflicts were considered. The research findings support the notion that it is possible to collect information from bicycle probe data that match and user perceptions and thus, utilizing them to take advantage of such data in advancing the goals of in smart cities and communities.
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Savastano, Marco, Marta-Christina Suciu, Irina Gorelova, and Gheorghe-Alexandru Stativă. "Smart grids, prosumers and energy management within a smart city integrated system." Proceedings of the International Conference on Business Excellence 14, no. 1 (July 1, 2020): 1121–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/picbe-2020-0105.
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AbstractDue to a significant increase in electricity consumption globally, governments have to look and to identify better, more efficient and effective alternatives and sustainable energy sources to meet this high demand. This becomes more and more important in the context of implementing modern approaches such as those that might be applied in cases of smart cities and cultural and creative communities. Electricity can be produced based on conventional sources, but also on an emergent use of renewable sources. The electricity grid is usually designed as unidirectional. We consider that in case of smart cities and creative-innovative communities there is a need to implement mostly new smart grids that are bidirectional. This may allow and support the emergency of a new type of electricity user, called “prosumers”, who produces electricity from renewable sources, next uses & shares them smartly within the smart grid and finally stores them. Globally, photovoltaic energy prosumers are considered one of the most important actors in the energy transition and seem to be ready to introduce significant amounts of electricity within the grid. We anticipate that people living in households in smart cities and communities among most regions of the world will tend in the future to improve their self-consumption from the production of smart energy. This paper supports the idea that using mostly electricity from renewable alternative sources, especially solar, can be also developed with the help of households acting within smart cities and communities. The paper will also present briefly an overview of the scientific literature dedicated to this topic. We will also provide further interesting insights through a number of case studies representing good practices regarding prosumers in Italy and Romania.
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Sathya, V., Bheemanadham, Surya Sai, Arpit Tharad, Ayush Kumar, Suraj Kumar, and Utkarsh Verma. "Cloud Based Smart Parking System." Journal of Computational and Theoretical Nanoscience 17, no. 4 (April 1, 2020): 1578–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1166/jctn.2020.8404.
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Lately, the idea of brilliant urban communities has increased awesome notoriety. Parking becomes one of the tedious tasks in our day to day life. Many efforts have been done in this field to solve parking based problems like traffic congestion, limited parking space, high parking charges, and the most basic problem is to find nearby parking space. In this paper, we proposed an algorithm that increases the efficiency of the current cloud-based smart parking system and develops a network architecture based on Internet-Of-Things technology. Our proposed system helps users automatically find a free parking space at the least cost based on new performance metrics to calculate the user parking cost by considering the distance from the user to parking area and the total number of free places in each car park. A mobile application is provided that navigate the user to the free parking space based on the efficiency based on distance and cost. This cost will be utilized to offer an answer of finding an accessible parking spot upon a demand by the client and an answer of proposing another car park if the present park is full.
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Alvarez-Icaza, Inés, Arturo Molina, and Rogelio Bustamante-Bello. "Connected Platforms for the Non-typical User: Design Methodology to Observe the Outliers." International Journal of Computer and Communication Engineering 9, no. 3 (2020): 122–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.17706/ijcce.2020.9.3.122-133.
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The Smart, Sensing and Sustainable Systems paradigm, known as the “S3 concept”, aims to promote the evolution of companies and academic environments through shared and adaptable knowledge. Therefore, this advancement follows new integrated products and services systems (PSS) designed to integrate everyone, everywhere, including non-typical users, i.e. people with disabilities, indigenous communities, elders, etc. By considering this it may facilitate Product and Service Systems design methodologies so to cover the articulate and non-articulate customer needs and in addition, using a social perspective. This research proposes a design framework to consider the non-typical human input analysis, along with the knowledge-sharing models exploration as academic collaboration platforms, to help Design and engineering students in identifying the best possible way of designing inclusive Sensible, Smart and Sustainable Systems, including a Social dimension.
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Raffaeli, Laura, Susanna Spinsante, and Ennio Gambi. "Integrated Smart TV-Based Personal e-Health System." International Journal of E-Health and Medical Communications 7, no. 1 (January 2016): 48–64. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/ijehmc.2016010103.
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This paper discusses the design and experimental implementation of an integrated system for the delivery of health related services, based on different technologies and devices. The idea is to create a unique point of access for the user, towards both a cloud-based remote service for the consultation of medical reports, and a personal local service that allows to collect and display data from biomedical sensors, to manage user's reminders for medicines, and to monitor the patient's dietary habits. The proposed system employs suitable technologies to simplify the user interaction, such as Near Field Communications enabled devices, and a smart TV equipment. By this way, it is possible to effectively deliver telehealth services also to users who may be less familiar with technological equipments, such as older adults, or people living in rural communities. The experimental implementation proves the feasibility of the proposed service, and the possibility to gain users' adherence and compliance, through proper design criteria.
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Patterson, Albert E., Yang Yuan, and William R. Norris. "Development of User-Integrated Semi-Autonomous Lawn Mowing Systems: A Systems Engineering Perspective and Proposed Architecture." AgriEngineering 1, no. 3 (September 11, 2019): 453–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/agriengineering1030033.
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This concept paper outlines a conceptual framework for the design and development of user-integrated semi-autonomous lawn mowing systems. This is approached from a systems engineering perspective, considering both hardware and software elements and integration with the user. This is an important and emerging field of study within the several engineering communities, including robotics, agricultural engineering, smart city development, and general systems engineering. In several sections of this paper, a review of current progress on this problem is presented (both in general and related to specific aspects of the system), followed by a discussion of the problem from a systems engineering perspective, a general system architecture developed by the authors, a preliminary set of design requirements, and a discussion of some practical implementation strategies. This work is meant to provide a baseline and motivation for the further development and refinement of these systems within the agricultural engineering and robotics communities and is relevant to both academic and commercial research.
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Ingram, Will, and Fayyaz Ali Memon. "Rural Water Collection Patterns: Combining Smart Meter Data with User Experiences in Tanzania." Water 12, no. 4 (April 18, 2020): 1164. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w12041164.
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Water collection from piped water distribution systems (PWSs) in rural communities in sub-Saharan Africa is not understood in much detail. Here, distances travelled to distribution points (DPs), volumes collected, times of day of collection, and the relationship between location of DP and volume dispensed are investigated in a rural community in Tanzania using a combination of novel smart pre-payment meters and results from surveys and interviews. Continuous availability of water through pre-payment smart meters is shown to eliminate queue time, freeing time for farming or schooling, and enhance revenue collection for service provision. 97% of users use DPs as a main source of drinking water as opposed to unimproved alternative sources, and 42% live further than 400 m from a DP. Collection occurs across daylight with greater volumes dispensed in the afternoon–evening due to free time from economic activities and children returning from school. A low mean daily collection of 47 L per household from DPs is approximated. Volume dispensed across different DPs over time shows no clear pattern. However, the volume dispensed is indicated by the number of households that use each DP. Increasing PWS capacity can accommodate for variable collection patterns, and help improve sustainability of rural water supply.
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Handy Permana, Silvester Dian, Ketut Bayu Yogha Bintoro, Ahmad Rifqi Fauzi, and Erneza Dewi Krishnasari. "SMART WATERING SYSTEM BASED ON INTERNET OF THINGS FOR URBAN PLANTING." Engineering and Technology Journal 08, no. 01 (January 3, 2023): 1802–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.47191/etj/v8i1.03.
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People in the city of Jakarta are busy people. Many Jakarta residents do not have time to look after plants. In fact, as a resident of the city of Jakarta, plant maintenance is very good for exchanging contaminated air into clean air. Plants must be watered every day to be able to photosynthesize. However, the busyness of the citizens of the city of Jakarta makes the residents do not have time to water their plants. Therefore, in this proposed study, a system that can water plants will be created automatically. The system consists of microcontroller as a control device, mobile-web app as the application which used by user and RabbitMQ as a server that control request from user. Microcontroller connected to internet use Wifi network and connected to RabbitMQ through MQTT protocol. Microcontroller as a control device connected with water pump through relay. When the given time has arrived, the water will automatically flow a few mili litters according to the needs of the tree from a bucket filled with water. The results of this research are expected to help urban communities in Jakarta to care for and maintain plants in the midst of their busy life
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Shen, Yi. "Emerging scenarios of data infrastructure and novel concepts of digital libraries in intelligent infrastructure for human-centred communities: A qualitative research." Journal of Information Science 45, no. 5 (November 22, 2018): 691–704. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0165551518811459.
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This research investigated the strategic development of a large-scale transdisciplinary area, named intelligent infrastructure for human-centred communities, at Virginia Tech. Within such development, this study explored the future vision and anticipated scenarios of data infrastructure and digital libraries for smart community development. It draws upon the mixed-methods approach combining ethnographic participant observation, document analysis and semi-structured interviews. Grounded in socio-technical framework and rooted in empirical methods, this research produces results that augment design thinking and visioning practice for digital data libraries beyond traditional boundaries. The findings reveal the emerging scenarios around complex adaptive systems, intelligent data infrastructure and future digital libraries all in the context of building infrastructure for human-centred communities. Situated in this advancing reality, the results further discuss the next-generation data and information user experience, smart infrastructure data environment and future library capabilities. The article concludes that a smart library system, whether in its conceptual form of a ‘digital octopus’ or a ‘smart village data hub’ or an ‘intelligent virtual assistant’, will provide intelligence in data gathering, processing, summarising, communication and recommendations. By delivering unified and personalised data solutions, it will offer an end-to-end seamless experience for users throughout their journey of knowledge pursuit.
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N, Shalini. "Artificial Intelligence Smart Exam Proctoring System." International Journal for Research in Applied Science and Engineering Technology 10, no. 6 (June 30, 2022): 5174–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.22214/ijraset.2022.45054.
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Abstract: There had been a giant leap in the field of educations from the past 1–2 years. Education institutes are transitioning online to provide more resources to their students. The COVID-19 pandemic has provided student more opportunities to acquire knowledge and improve themselves at their own pace. These Online proctoring services (part of assessment) are also on the hike, and Artificial Intelligence based Smart Examination proctoring systems (henceforth called as AISEPS) have taken the market by tempest. Online Proctoring system (hence called as OPS), in general, it makes use of internet tools to maintain the sanctity of the examinations. While most of the software uses various modules, the sensitive information they collect raises concerns among the student communities. There are various psychological, cultural and technological parameters that needs to be considered while developing AISEPS. Major issues includes Security, Privacy and ethical concerns, It is difficult to know whether the benefits of these Online Proctoring technology outweigh their risks. Our AISEPS allows users to take exam online in a more secured environment, AI interfaced in the system that allows user to monitor their exam and generate report which is need for hour.
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Bellavista, Paolo, and Carlo Giannelli. "Cyber Physical Sensors and Actuators for Privacy- and Cost-Aware Optimization of User-Generated Content Provisioning." International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks 2015 (2015): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/396136.
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Nowadays there is growing interest in evolving the distributed sensors concept from the more traditional one of enabling technology to monitor the surrounding physical environmenttowards Cyber Physical Systems (CPS) sensors and actuators, that is, as a suitable tool to measure/influence the cyber activity of possibly worldwide communities of users (e.g., any geotagged operation leaving a cyber footprint and any cyber physical incentive to stimulate activity as in crowdsensing). To leverage this novel perspective, we propose a framework to integrate at bestmultilayer CPS sensors and actuatorsas the basis for autonomic management operations on both physical and cyber worlds. In this paper the specific application domain target is peer-to-peer content sharing based on social identities and relationships, but we claim that the proposed CPS framework is of general applicability. In particular, our original middleware solution adopts CPS actuators to move users’ content temporarily from smart home environments to high-performance cloud resources to minimize the access time of a dynamically selected quota of contents. Then, based on social network sensors and connectivity/networking ones hosted at lightweight domestic Web servers, our CPS actuators can originally and dynamically move content back from the cloud to smart homes when appropriate, in order to both retain full ownership of user-generated content and reduce cloud hosting costs.
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Jing, Changfeng, Mingyi Du, Songnian Li, and Siyuan Liu. "Geospatial Dashboards for Monitoring Smart City Performance." Sustainability 11, no. 20 (October 14, 2019): 5648. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su11205648.
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Geospatial dashboards have attracted increasing attention from both user communities and academic researchers since the late 1990s. Dashboards can gather, visualize, analyze and advise on urban performance to support sustainable development of smart cities. We conducted a critical review of the research and development of geospatial dashboards, including the integration of maps, spatial data analytics, and geographic visualization for decision support and real-time monitoring of smart city performance. The research about this kind of system has mainly focused on indicators, information models including statistical models and geospatial models, and other related issues. This paper presents an overview of dashboard history and key technologies and applications in smart cities, and summarizes major research progress and representative developments by analyzing their key technical issues. Based on the review, we discuss the visualization model and validity of models for decision support and real-time monitoring that need to be further researched, and recommend some future research directions.
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González-Pavón, César, Jaime Arviza-Valverde, Ibán Balbastre-Peralta, José Miguel Carot Sierra, and Guillermo Palau-Salvador. "Are Water User Associations Prepared for a Second-Generation Modernization? The Case of the Valencian Community (Spain)." Water 12, no. 8 (July 28, 2020): 2136. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/w12082136.
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This work focuses on the situation of the technological transition to new technologies in drip irrigation in the Valencian Community (Spain). The study covers the last decade with data from interviews to managers of Irrigation Communities in 2010 and 2018. We analyze the main technological problems in seven topics: (i) Catchment & Pumping; (ii) Storage & Regulation; (iii) Treatment & Filtering; (iv) Transport & Distribution; (v) Maneuver, Regulation & Protection; (vi) Automation; (vii) Theft and Vandalism. We also have researched the influence of the performance of the Automation system, the presence of a technician in the Irrigation Community and the use of sensors or climatic data. Results show that problems related to technological maintenance of filtering systems or automation are very common and important and they are more important in large Irrigation Communities. We have also observed that mostly large ICs are using sensors or climatic data for their irrigation schedule. We can conclude that their current situation is focused in the daily maintenance of technological problems, inherited from the first modernization processes at the beginning of 21st century. Hence, they are far away from a second stage of modernization or the smart irrigation pushed by the new advances on technology.
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Preston, Sam, Muhammad Usman Mazhar, and Richard Bull. "Citizen Engagement for Co-Creating Low Carbon Smart Cities: Practical Lessons from Nottingham City Council in the UK." Energies 13, no. 24 (December 15, 2020): 6615. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/en13246615.
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Cities constitute three quarters of global energy consumption and the built environment is responsible for significant use of final energy (62%) and greenhouse gas emissions (55%). Energy has now become a strategic issue for local authorities (LAs) and can offer savings when budget cuts have threatened the provision of core services. Progressive LAs are exploring energy savings and carbon reduction opportunities as part of the sustainable and smart city agenda. This paper explores the role of citizens in smart city development as “buildings don’t use energy: people do”. Citizens have the potential to shape transitions towards smart and sustainable futures. This paper contributes to the growing evidence base of citizen engagement in low carbon smart cities by presenting novel insights and practical lessons on how citizen engagement can help in smart city development through co-creation with a focus on energy in the built environment. A case study of Nottingham in the UK, a leading smart city, is analysed using Arnstein’s Ladder of Citizen Participation. Nottingham City Council (NCC) has pledged to keep “citizens at the heart” of its plans. This paper discusses learnings from two EU funded Horizon 2020 projects, REMOURBAN (REgeneration MOdel for accelerating the smart URBAN transformation) and eTEACHER, both of which aimed to empower citizens to reduce energy consumption and co-create smart solutions. Although these two projects are diverse in approaches and contexts, what unites them is a focus on citizen engagement, both face to face and digital. REMOURBAN has seen a “whole house” approach to retrofit in vulnerable communities to improve liveability through energy efficiency. User interaction and co-creation in eTEACHER has provided specifications for technical design of an energy saving App for buildings. eTEACHER findings reflect users’ energy needs, understanding of control interfaces, motivations for change and own creative ideas. Citizens were made co-creators in eTEACHER from the beginning through regular communication. In REMOURBAN, citizens had a role in the procurement and bidding process to influence retrofit project proposals. Findings can help LAs to engage demographically diverse citizens across a variety of buildings and communities for low carbon smart city development.
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Rehman, Ateeq Ur, Rizwan Ali Naqvi, Abdul Rehman, Anand Paul, Muhammad Tariq Sadiq, and Dildar Hussain. "A Trustworthy SIoT Aware Mechanism as an Enabler for Citizen Services in Smart Cities." Electronics 9, no. 6 (June 1, 2020): 918. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/electronics9060918.
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In the recent era, new information technologies have a significant impact on social networks. Initial integration of information and communication technologies (ICT) into city operations has promoted information city, ease of communication and principles of smart communities. Subsequently, the idea of the Internet of Things (IoT) with the specific focus of social IoT (SIoT) has contributed towards the smart cities (SC), which support the city operations with minimal human interaction. The user-generated data obtained by SIoT can be exploited to produce new useful information for creating citizen-centered smart services for SC. The aim of this research is twofold. Firstly, we used the concept of local and global trust to provide new services in SC based on popular online social networks (OSN) data used by the citizens. Secondly, the sustainability of the three different OSN is assessed. This paper investigates the social network domain with regard to the SC. Although in SC, OSN are increasing day by day, there is still an unresolved issue of trust among their users and also OSN are not much sustainable. In this research, we are analyzing the sustainability of different OSN for the SC. We employ datasets of three different social networks for our analyses. A local trust model is used to identify the central user within the local cluster while the global trust-based framework is used to identify the opinion leaders. Our analysis based on the datasets of Facebook, Twitter, and Slashdot unveil that filtration of these central-local users and opinion leaders result in the dispersion and significant reduction in a network. A novel model is being developed that outlines the relationship between local and global trust for the protection of OSN users in SC. Furthermore, the proposed mechanism uses the data posted by citizens on OSN to propose new services by mitigating the effect of untrusted users.
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Sneep, Deirdre. "Cell Phone City: Reinventing Tokyo’s Urban Space for Social Use." Asiascape: Digital Asia 6, no. 3 (November 8, 2019): 212–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/22142312-12340112.
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Abstract Although the growth of the mobile internet is a global phenomenon, several urban agglomerations are in East Asian countries that rank particularly high in mobile internet use. Among them is Tokyo, the cradle of mobile internet technology. The constant connectedness to the internet transforms the city and its communities, making them interesting case studies for research on smart communities. In line with Goggin and McLelland’s 2017 call for a more localized perspective on (mobile) internet use, this article critically re-visits the existing theoretical framework on how virtual space influences the city, and it compares findings with anthropological fieldwork the author conducted in Tokyo. The article looks at how mobile phones can be used to interact with established contacts over a distance, connect strangers by forming ‘mobile phone hubs’, and even disconnect the user when the device is used to ‘shield’ oneself from those in the vicinity.
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Errichiello, Luisa, and Roberto Micera. "A process-based perspective of smart tourism destination governance." European Journal of Tourism Research 29 (July 2, 2021): 2909. http://dx.doi.org/10.54055/ejtr.v29i.2436.
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The tourism management literature has recently shown increasing interest in exploring the potential offered by the smart tourism destination initiative, conceived as the integrated use of ICT solutions for achieving greater efficiency and sustainability, enriching the tourist experience and boosting destination competitiveness. However, innovative technologies risk to be ineffective without adequate governance structures that are required to ensure the effective coordination and integration of tourism firms, government and communities in implementing a holistic smart-oriented development plan for destinations. This paper aims to integrate the recent smart approach with the destination governance theory to develop a governance process framework for smart tourism destinations. The framework explains how the smart approach can inform the planning and implementation of smart development goals, and specifically how smartness principles, tools and methods can be applied to increase the sustainable competitiveness of destinations beyond the mere technology dimension, making explicit the role of collaborative structures, user-driven services, social innovation and local community involvement. At the theoretical level, the paper offers an integrative perspective for designing and implementing effective smart tourism destination governance structures and processes. In practical terms, the framework can be viewed as a flexible tool in the hands of destination managers and policy makers: it shows how to match the design of governance structures and processes with the specific destination context and how to exploit “smart dimensions” for its development by relying on an incremental logic based on subsequent, interdependent stages.
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Joseph, Nimish, Arpan Kumar Kar, P. Vigneswara Ilavarasan, and Shankar Ganesh. "Review of Discussions on Internet of Things (IoT)." Journal of Global Information Management 25, no. 2 (April 2017): 38–51. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/jgim.2017040103.
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User generated content in the social media platforms are being considered as an important source for information about consumers and other emerging trends by the businesses. Using Twitter analytics, the paper presents insights on trends and discussions about the Internet of Things (IoT). Using relevant hashtags, 40,387 tweets were collected in early 2016. The analysis had followed three major approaches: descriptive analysis, content analysis and network analysis. The tools R and NodeXL were used for the analysis. The findings showed major themes like business concerns, scope of applications, security, emerging smart technologies and manufacturing. The sentiments of emotions and polarity differed across these themes. The top individual and industrial influencers were identified. The analysis also detected the highly-associated words and hashtags, and different user communities and how they are connected. Business implications of the findings and limitations are also elaborated.
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Angelidou, Margarita, Artemis Psaltoglou, Nicos Komninos, Christina Kakderi, Panagiotis Tsarchopoulos, and Anastasia Panori. "Enhancing sustainable urban development through smart city applications." Journal of Science and Technology Policy Management 9, no. 2 (July 2, 2018): 146–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/jstpm-05-2017-0016.
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Purpose This paper investigates the potential contribution of smart city approaches and tools to sustainable urban development in the environment domain. Recent research has highlighted the need to explore the relation of smart and sustainable cities more systematically, focusing on practical applications that could enable a deeper understanding of the included domains, typologies and design concepts, and this paper aims to address this research gap. At the same time, it tries to identify whether these applications could contribute to the “zero vision” strategy, an extremely ambitious challenge within the field of smart cities. Design/methodology/approach This objective is pursued through an in-depth investigation of available open source and proprietary smart city applications related to environmental sustainability in urban environments. A total of 32 applications were detected through the Intelligent/Smart Cities Open Source (ICOS) community, a meta-repository for smart cities solutions. The applications are analyzed comparatively regarding (i) the environmental issue addressed, (ii) the associated mitigation strategies, (iii) the included innovation mechanism, (iv) the role of information and communication technologies and (v) the overall outcome. Findings The findings suggest that the smart and sustainable city landscape is extremely fragmented both on the policy and the technical levels. There is a host of unexplored opportunities toward smart sustainable development, many of which are still unknown. Similar findings are reached for all categories of environmental challenges in cities. Research limitations pertain to the analysis of a relatively small number of applications. The results can be used to inform policy making toward becoming more proactive and impactful both locally and globally. Given that smart city application market niches are also identified, they are also of special interest to developers, user communities and digital entrepreneurs. Originality/value The value added by this paper is two-fold. At the theoretical level, it offers a neat conceptual bridge between smart and sustainable cities debate. At the practical level, it identifies under-researched and under-exploited fields of smart city applications that could be opportunities to attain the “zero vision” objective.
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Khalid, Haqi, Shaiful Jahari Hashim, Sharifah Mumtazah Syed Ahmad, Fazirulhisyam Hashim, and Muhammad Akmal Chaudhary. "Robust Multi-Gateway Authentication Scheme for Agriculture Wireless Sensor Network in Society 5.0 Smart Communities." Agriculture 11, no. 10 (October 19, 2021): 1020. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/agriculture11101020.
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Recent Society 5.0 efforts by the Government of Japan are aimed at establishing a sustainable human-centered society by combining new technologies such as sensor networks, edge computing, Internet of Things (IoT) ecosystems, artificial intelligence (AI), big data, and robotics. Many research works have been carried out with an increasing emphasis on the fundamentals of wireless sensor networks (WSN) for different applications; namely precision agriculture, environment, medical care, security, and surveillance. In the same vein, almost all of the known authentication techniques rely on the single gateway node, which is unsuitable for the current sensor nodes that are broadly distributed in the real world. Despite technological advances, resource constraints and vulnerability to an attacker physically capturing some sensor nodes have remained an important and challenging research field for developing wireless sensor network user authentication. This work proposes a new authentication scheme for agriculture professionals based on a multi-gateway communication model using a fuzzy extractor algorithm to support the Society 5.0 environment. The scheme provides a secure mutual authentication using the well-established formal method called BAN logic. The formal security verification of the proposed scheme is validated with the AVISPA tool, a powerful validation method for network security applications. In addition, the security of the scheme was informally analyzed to demonstrate that the scheme is secure from different attacks, e.g., sensor capture, replay, and other network and physical attacks. Furthermore, the communication and computation costs of the proposed scheme are evaluated and show better performance than the existing authentication schemes.
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Kang, Jian, Francesco Aletta, Efstathios Margaritis, and Ming Yang. "A model for implementing soundscape maps in smart cities." Noise Mapping 5, no. 1 (March 1, 2018): 46–59. http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/noise-2018-0004.
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Abstract Smart cities are required to engage with local communities by promoting a user-centred approach to deal with urban life issues and ultimately enhance people’s quality of life. Soundscape promotes a similar approach, based on individuals’ perception of acoustic environments. This paper aims to establish a model to implement soundscape maps for the monitoring and management of the acoustic environment and to demonstrate its feasibility. The final objective of the model is to generate visual maps related to perceptual attributes (e.g. ‘calm’, ‘pleasant’), starting from audio recordings of everyday acoustic environments. The proposed model relies on three main stages: (1) sound sources recognition and profiling, (2) prediction of the soundscape’s perceptual attributes and (3) implementation of soundscape maps. This research particularly explores the two latter phases, for which a set of sub-processes and methods is proposed and discussed. An accuracy analysiswas performed with satisfactory results: the prediction models of the second stage explained up to the 57.5% of the attributes’ variance; the cross-validation errors of the model were close to zero. These findings show that the proposed model is likely to produce representative maps of an individual’s sonic perception in a given environment.
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KESKİN, Eylem, and Aysu GÜRMAN. "Fab Labs to Fab Cities: Exploring Innovative Urban Spaces in İzmir." Mimarlık Bilimleri ve Uygulamaları Dergisi (MBUD) 7, no. 2 (December 30, 2022): 542–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.30785/mbud.1092056.
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This study focuses on fabrication laboratories (fab labs) that provide user-oriented innovative urban spaces to meet advanced technologies and city dwellers who can share their knowledge in solving local problems. The aim is to explore the potential of fab labs as a part of smart city initiatives to develop the fab city by creating a network for collective knowledge and technology-enabled production in collaboration with local communities, companies, NGOs, and institutions. The opted methodology is to examine several fab labs as innovative and creative spaces in İzmir to evaluate their potential role in the development of the fab city. Fab labs might improve the organizational gap between local governments and inhabitants in developing innovative and sustainable solutions. This paper fulfills the lack of systematic research on fab labs; how they relate to smart city initiatives, evolving into fab cities, and obtaining and implementing the know-how of fab cities’ global knowledge.
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Sunar, N. M., A. T. Kosat, H. Harun, N. H. A. Hamid, A. Khalid, E. Zaidi, and A. T. S. Azhar. "Development of Smart Kit Rainwater Harvesting System for Potable Water Purpose." International Journal of Engineering & Technology 7, no. 4.30 (November 30, 2018): 338. http://dx.doi.org/10.14419/ijet.v7i4.30.22304.
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The Smart Kit Rainwater Harvesting (RWH) system has the potential to contribute to the conservation of clean water usage. The aim of this study is to build an affordable rainwater storage system for all type houses with easy installation and friendly user. The current constraints on the installation of rainwater storage system in the market requires a fairly expensive cost, and skilled technical workers to install it. In contrast, the Smart Kit RWH, is friendly built in a complete set that is easy to install and easy to maintain by homeowners. This system is very suitable for the use in agriculture and farming. This Smart Kit RWH consist of water storage tank, existing gutter and main pipe, first flush diverter and some connector pipe to create this complete system. This product is limited to storing untreated rain water quality, and the quality of rainwater collected can be used as water storage for household and sanitary equipment such as flushing cistern and other potable water usage. Nevertheless, this contributes to the good and the benefits of individuals, communities and nations. This product able to help the rural population in particular of having problems in getting clean water. Hopefully, with the production of this system, it can foster the public's awareness of the advantages and benefits of installing rainwater storage systems at home, plantation and farming.
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Starace, Giuseppe, Amber Tiwari, Gianpiero Colangelo, and Alessandro Massaro. "Advanced Data Systems for Energy Consumption Optimization and Air Quality Control in Smart Public Buildings Using a Versatile Open Source Approach." Electronics 11, no. 23 (November 25, 2022): 3904. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/electronics11233904.
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This work discusses smart building applications involving the Internet of Things (IoT) which are focused on energy consumption monitoring and forecasting systems, as well as indoor air quality (IAQ) control. Low-cost hardware integrating sensors and open source platforms are implemented for cloud data transmission, data storage and data processing. Advanced data analytics is performed by the seasonal autoregressive integrated moving average (SARIMA) method and a long short-term memory (LSTM) neural network with an accurate calculation performance about energy predictions. The proposed results are developed within the framework of the R&D project Data System Platform for Smart Communities (D-SySCOM), which is oriented to a smart public building application. The main goal of the work was to define a guideline-matching energy efficiency with wellness in public indoor environments, by providing modular low-cost solutions which are easily implementable for advanced data processing. The implemented technologies are suitable to define an efficient organizational user protocol based on energy efficiency and worker wellness. The estimated performance of mean square error (MSE) of 0.01 of the adopted algorithms proves the efficiency of the implemented building monitoring system in terms of energy consumption forecasting. In addition, the possibility of designing and implementing a modular low-cost hardware–software system was demonstrated utilizing open source tools in a way that was oriented to smart buildings approaches.
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Davies, K. P., J. Duncan, N. Wales, R. Varea, H. Shojaei, E. Bruce, B. Boruff, and E. Biggs. "AN OPEN-SOURCE MOBILE GEOSPATIAL PLATFORM FOR PROMOTING CLIMATE-SMART LIVELIHOOD-LANDSCAPE SYSTEMS IN FIJI AND TONGA." ISPRS - International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences XLII-4/W14 (August 23, 2019): 31–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-xlii-4-w14-31-2019.
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<p><strong>Abstract.</strong> Communities in Fiji and Tonga rely on landscape services to support a variety of livelihoods. These communities are increasingly vulnerable to climate (e.g. increasing cyclone occurrence and intensity) and environmental (e.g. mining and deforestation) stressors. Within these landscape systems, accurate and timely monitoring of human-climate-environment interactions is important to inform landscape management, land use policies, and climate-smart sustainable development. Data collection and monitoring approaches exist to capture landscape-livelihood information such as surveys, participatory GIS (PGIS), and remote sensing. However, these monitoring approaches are challenged by data collection and management burdens, timely integration of databases and data streams, aligning system requirements with local needs, and socio-technical issues associated with low-resource development contexts. Such monitoring approaches only provide static representation of livelihood-landscape interactions failing to capture the dynamic nature of vulnerabilities, and benefit only a small user base. We present a prototype of a mobile, open-source geospatial tool being collaboratively developed with the Ministries of Agriculture in Fiji and Tonga and local stakeholders, to address the above shortcomings of PGIS and other environmental monitoring and data sharing approaches. The tool is being developed using open-source mobile GIS technologies following a formal ICT for Development (ICT4D) framework. We discuss the results for each component of the ICT4D framework which involves multiple landscape stakeholders across the two Small Island Developing States. Based on the ICT4D user requirements analysis, we produced a prototype open-source mobile geospatial data collection, analysis and sharing tool. New dynamic spatial data layers related to landscape use and climate were specifically developed for use in the tool. We present the functionality of the tool alongside the results of field-testing with stakeholders in Fiji and Tonga.</p>
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Wakjira, Kibebew, Taye Negera, Aleksejs Zacepins, Armands Kviesis, Vitalijs Komasilovs, Sascha Fiedler, Sascha Kirchner, et al. "Smart apiculture management services for developing countries—the case of SAMS project in Ethiopia and Indonesia." PeerJ Computer Science 7 (April 9, 2021): e484. http://dx.doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.484.
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The European Union funded project SAMS (Smart Apiculture Management Services) enhances international cooperation of ICT (Information and Communication Technologies) and sustainable agriculture between EU and developing countries in pursuit of the EU commitment to the UN Sustainable Development Goal “End hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition and promote sustainable agriculture”. The project consortium comprises four partners from Europe (two from Germany, Austria, and Latvia) and two partners each from Ethiopia and Indonesia. Beekeeping with small-scale operations provides suitable innovation labs for the demonstration and dissemination of cost-effective and easy-to-use open source ICT applications in developing countries. SAMS allows active monitoring and remote sensing of bee colonies and beekeeping by developing an ICT solution supporting the management of bee health and bee productivity as well as a role model for effective international cooperation. By following the user centered design (UCD) approach, SAMS addresses requirements of end-user communities on beekeeping in developing countries, and includes findings in its technological improvements and adaptation as well as in innovative services and business creation based on advanced ICT and remote sensing technologies. SAMS enhances the production of bee products, creates jobs (particularly youths/women), triggers investments, and establishes knowledge exchange through networks and initiated partnerships.
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Tsekleves, Emmanuel, John Cosmas, Amar Aggoun, and Jonathan Loo. "Converged Digital TV Services: The Role of Middleware and Future Directions of Interactive Television." International Journal of Digital Multimedia Broadcasting 2009 (2009): 1–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2009/643680.
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The subject of the future of the interactive Television medium has become a topic of great interest to the academic and industrial communities particularly since in the recent years there has been a dramatic increase in the pace of innovation of convergence of digital TV systems and services. The purpose of this paper is to provide a brief overview of what we know as digital TV converged services, to present and categorise the digital Television middleware technologies that contributed to it, and to present possible future trends and directions. A new Television era of converged wireless and mobile content delivery, user-authored content, multimodal interaction, intelligent personalisation, smart space awareness, and 3D content sensations is foreseen, creating ambient and immersive experiences.
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Pigliautile, Ilaria, Sylvia Breukers, Marten Boekelo, Pablo Carnero, Francesco Causone, Sara Arko, Sibilla Ferroni, et al. "Peer-to-peer energy communities: regulatory barriers in the EU context." Open Research Europe 2 (December 23, 2022): 147. http://dx.doi.org/10.12688/openreseurope.15282.1.
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The effects of climate change are already impacting people’s quality of life worldwide. Evidence highlights the urgency in action to counteract this on-going process. Europe aims at fostering the green transition becoming climate neutral by 2050. The envisioned pathway encompasses an overhaul of the energy system including an increase in renewable energy production and end-user energy efficiency. The EU further recognizes the fundamental role of citizens and communities in addressing an effective transition. Within this framework, energy communities (EC) and peer-to-peer (P2P) energy trading are emerging as new opportunities for boosting green technologies in renewable energy and the smart grid sector, and for rising citizens’ awareness of the theme. However, the implementation of P2P ECs in Europe entails complex legal challenges that cannot be solved only through sector-specific regulation. This open letter critically presents the experience gained in the H2020 NRG2peers project about the knowledge advancement in the regulatory context of the project pilot sites. These are located in four EU ecosystems (from innovators to laggards) that are: the Netherlands, Spain, Slovenia, and Italy. Each EC involved in the NRG2peers project is thus facing different challenges related to its specific socio-economic condition and energy market framework. These barriers need to be overcome and new tools will be delivered during the NRG2peers project. Moving from the lessons learnt at the pilot sites, both roadmaps at the regulatory level and an advisory app are under development to support the uptake of the next generation of European peer-to-peer Energy Communities.
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Dombrovskaya, Anna Y., Roman V. Parma, and Arthur A. Azarov. "Social media infrastructure of the Russians civic participation: the analysis of audience intersection graphs for socio-political communities on Runet." VESTNIK INSTITUTA SOTZIOLOGII 12, no. 2 (2021): 158–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.19181/vis.2021.12.2.720.
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The article presents the results of the analysis of the digital infrastructure of civil and political participation of Russians, it shows the connections between the audiences of online network communities, reflecting markers of the attitude of Russian social media users to the current government and indicators of the involvement of Russian citizens in the implementation of social initiatives. To construct graphs, we used a tool for unloading information and modeling the infrastructure of social connections of graphs, created on the basis of the programming language R. Additionally, the vkR packages were used to unload information from the VKontakte social network, as well as the igraph and ggraph packages for working with graphs and arcdiagram for visualisation. To interpret the empirical data, the principles of the network approach and the methodology of smart search for digital markers of socio-political processes were applied. As a result of the study, indicators of the density of communications between digital groups of political and civil participation were revealed, and the intersection of their audiences was established. Segments of the infrastructure of connections are shown both for all socio-media communities (research cases) and for each block of communities classified on two grounds: orientation (loyal or critically oriented towards the authorities) and type of group (political or civil). The intersection of audiences of loyalist and oppositional online communities was revealed and reflected in the graphs. The disunity and distance between loyalist, conventional audiences of groups carrying out political communication from civil groups, who are also constructively disposed towards the authorities, are shown. Revealed and graphically interpreted the techniques of capturing the user audience in the activities of opposition online leaders. Risks of a low density of connections between audiences of loyal social media communities have been substantiated. A relatively high density of connections has been established between opposition political online groups aimed at forming unconventional, deconsolidating attitudes of Russian social media users. Basic measures have been formulated to overcome the danger of consolidating supporters of opposition digital groups and the risks of increasing the influence of critical online leaders among the loyalist audience.
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Hao, Long, and Li-Min Zhou. "Evaluation Index of School Sports Resources Based on Artificial Intelligence and Edge Computing." Mobile Information Systems 2022 (January 13, 2022): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2022/9925930.
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As the demand for education continues to increase, the relative lack of physical resources has become a bottleneck hindering the development of school physical education to a certain extent. This research mainly discusses the evaluation index system of school sports resources based on artificial intelligence and edge computing. Human resources, financial resources, and material resources in school sports resources are the three major resources in resource science. University sports stadium information publicity uses Internet technology to establish a sports information management platform and mobile Internet terminals to optimize university sports resources and stadium information management services. It uses artificial intelligence technology to improve venue information management. It establishes a comprehensive platform for venue management information, collects multidimensional information, provides information resources and accurate information push, and links venue information with public fitness needs. Using edge computing to realize nearby cloud processing of video data, reduce the phenomenon of black screen jams during live broadcast, improve data computing capabilities, and reduce users’ dependence on the performance of terminal devices, build a smart sports resource platform, combine artificial intelligence (AI) to create smart communities, smart venues, and realize intelligent operations such as event service operations and safety prevention and control in important event venues. During the live broadcast of the student sports league, the nearby cloud processing of video data is realized in the form of edge computing, which improves the data computing ability and reduces the performance dependence on the user terminal equipment itself. In the academic survey of college physical education teachers, undergraduates accounted for 26.99%, masters accounted for 60.3%, and doctoral degrees accounted for 12.8%. This research will help the reasonable allocation of school sports resources.
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Passini, William Filisbino, and Frank José Affonso. "Developing Self-Adaptive Service-Oriented Mobile Applications: A Framework Based on Dynamic Deployment." International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering 28, no. 11n12 (November 2018): 1537–58. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0218194018400168.
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Today’s society is increasingly dependent on the use of mobile or smart devices (e.g. smartphones, tablets, hybrid devices, smart-TVs, smart-watches, among others), which have changed over these last 10 years the way people perform their daily tasks. In parallel, Internet of Things (IoT) systems have played a prominent position in this scenario, since they enable to exchange information among different types of devices and services (e.g. physical devices, vehicles, home appliances, sensors, among others). This scenario has boosted the demand for development of high-quality Mobile Applications (MobApps), which can be pre-installed on such devices during manufacturing platforms, or delivered as applications by the mobile stores or third parties. According to [1–3], mobile devices have some physical limitations (e.g. processing and storage) compared to personal computers. Thus, service-oriented MobApps have been a feasible alternative to overcome such limitations, improving the efficiency of the development life cycle of these applications with adoption of third-party components (e.g. software components, web services, and other mobile applications). In another perspective, it is also been noted a change in the user behavior of MobApps, which demand applications capable of operating in adverse conditions, maintaining their integrity of execution. Considering the relevance of such applications, this paper reports the extension of a framework to support the development of Self-adaptive Services-oriented MobApps (Self-MobApps), which enables modification of services at runtime [4] by means of a deployment dynamic approach. To show the feasibility of our framework, a case study for a smart restaurant was conducted in a mobile environment. The results of this study enable us to create a positive perspective on the contribution of our framework to the research communities involved.
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Li, Shugang, Ru Wang, Yuqi Zhang, Hanyu Lu, Nannan Cai, and Zhaoxu Yu. "Potential social media influencers discrimination for concept marketing in online brand community." Journal of Intelligent & Fuzzy Systems 41, no. 1 (August 11, 2021): 317–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.3233/jifs-201809.
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Identifying potential social media influencers (SMIs) accurately can achieve a long-time and effective concept marketing at a lower cost, and then promote the development of the corporate brand in online communities. However, potential SMIs discrimination often faces the problem of insufficient available information of the long-term evolution of the network, and the existing discriminant methods based on link analysis fail to obtain more accurate results. To fill this gap, a consensus smart discriminant algorithm (CSDA) is proposed to identify the potential SMIs with the aid of attention concentration (AC) between users in a closed triadic structure. CSDA enriches and expands the users’ AC information by fusing multiple attention concentration indexes (ACIs) as well as filters the noise information caused by multi-index fusion through consensus among the indexes. Specifically, to begin with, to enrich the available long-term network evolution information, the unidirectional attention concentration indexes (UACIs) and the bidirectional attention concentration indexes (BACIs) are defined; next, the consensus attention concentration index (CACI) is selected according to the principle of minimum upper and lower bounds of link prediction bias to filter noise information; the potential SMI is determined by adaptively calculating CACI among the user to be identified, unconnected user group and their common neighbor. The validity and reliability of the proposed method are verified by the actual data of Twitter.
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Thanarak, Prapita. "Social Impact Assessment of the Biogas Production through Biomass for Bansuanmiang School under the Smart School Project." Applied Mechanics and Materials 855 (October 2016): 108–13. http://dx.doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.855.108.
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Small scale biogas plants were established at existing lands of seven small size schools at three provinces in lower northern part of Thailand. The successful experience of a small school at Khaonoi was used to implement this project, where food waste and animal dung have been used to produce biogas which replaced LPG used to cook lunch for students. After the successful implementation of project, these sites were used to train/ demonstrate the concerned from about 1,717 small size schools in target areas. The proposed project is conceived to open new venues in promoting and implementing Renewable Energy Technology. The establishment of university (R&D) to school/ community(end user) relationship is very important aspect of the idea, which not only be perfect to implement the project smoothly but will create new ways to collect feedback and solve the issues immediately. Project sites being distributive in nature and community participated will act as a RE promotion hubs. The technology used is simple and all the materials involved are local. The project though has comparatively lower direct financial benefits, but has tremendous social,environmental and health related benefits. The reduction of CO2 and other GHG will not only be beneficial locally but will contribute in achieving the globally fixed targets. Community participation will be an added benefit to promote and expand the RE technologies among the masses over wide areas. The successful operation will be a strong message for visitors and the local community connected through their children with the school and hence project. The university level R&D will get a way out for direct implementation and technology will be used for the betterment of communities and will participate in global efforts to reduce CO2 emissions as well.
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Terribile, F., A. Agrillo, A. Bonfante, G. Buscemi, M. Colandrea, A. D'Antonio, R. De Mascellis, et al. "A web based spatial decision supporting system for land management and soil conservation." Solid Earth Discussions 7, no. 1 (February 12, 2015): 661–709. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/sed-7-661-2015.
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Abstract. Today it is evident that there are many contrasting demands on our landscape (e.g. food security, more sustainable agriculture, higher income in rural areas, etc.) but also many land degradation problems. It has been proved that providing operational answers to these demands and problems is extremely difficult. Here we aim to demonstrate that a Spatial Decision Support System based on geospatial cyber-infrastructure (GCI) can embody all of the above, so producing a smart system for supporting decision making for agriculture, forestry and urban planning with respect to the landscape. In this paper, we discuss methods and results of a special kind of GCI architecture, one that is highly focused on soil and land conservation (SOILCONSWEB-LIFE+ project). The system allows us to obtain dynamic, multidisciplinary, multiscale, and multifunctional answers to agriculture, forestry and urban planning issues through the web. The system has been applied to and tested in an area of about 20 000 ha in the South of Italy, within the framework of a European LIFE+ project. The paper reports – as a case study – results from two different applications dealing with agriculture (olive growth tool) and environmental protection (soil capability to protect groundwater). Developed with the help of end users, the system is starting to be adopted by local communities. The system indirectly explores a change of paradigm for soil and landscape scientists. Indeed, the potential benefit is shown of overcoming current disciplinary fragmentation over landscape issues by offering – through a smart web based system – truly integrated geospatial knowledge that may be directly and freely used by any end user (http://www.landconsultingweb.eu). This may help bridge the last much important divide between scientists working on the landscape and end users.
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Terribile, F., A. Agrillo, A. Bonfante, G. Buscemi, M. Colandrea, A. D'Antonio, R. De Mascellis, et al. "A Web-based spatial decision supporting system for land management and soil conservation." Solid Earth 6, no. 3 (July 28, 2015): 903–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/se-6-903-2015.
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Abstract. Today it is evident that there are many contrasting demands on our landscape (e.g. food security, more sustainable agriculture, higher income in rural areas, etc.) as well as many land degradation problems. It has been proved that providing operational answers to these demands and problems is extremely difficult. Here we aim to demonstrate that a spatial decision support system based on geospatial cyberinfrastructure (GCI) can address all of the above, so producing a smart system for supporting decision making for agriculture, forestry, and urban planning with respect to the landscape. In this paper, we discuss methods and results of a special kind of GCI architecture, one that is highly focused on land management and soil conservation. The system allows us to obtain dynamic, multidisciplinary, multiscale, and multifunctional answers to agriculture, forestry, and urban planning issues through the Web. The system has been applied to and tested in an area of about 20 000 ha in the south of Italy, within the framework of a European LIFE+ project (SOILCONSWEB). The paper reports – as a case study – results from two different applications dealing with agriculture (olive growth tool) and environmental protection (soil capability to protect groundwater). Developed with the help of end users, the system is starting to be adopted by local communities. The system indirectly explores a change of paradigm for soil and landscape scientists. Indeed, the potential benefit is shown of overcoming current disciplinary fragmentation over landscape issues by offering – through a smart Web-based system – truly integrated geospatial knowledge that may be directly and freely used by any end user (www.landconsultingweb.eu). This may help bridge the last very important divide between scientists working on the landscape and end users.
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Sorongan, Erick, and Qory Hidayati. "Integration of eucs variables into delone and mclean models for e-government evaluation: Conceptual models." Register: Jurnal Ilmiah Teknologi Sistem Informasi 6, no. 1 (January 7, 2020): 33. http://dx.doi.org/10.26594/register.v6i1.1608.
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This research was based on the modification of the DeLone and McLean information systems models by adding end-user computing satisfaction variables to determine the success factors for e-government systems. This model was adopted due to the aim of this study to investigate the factors responsible for the successful implementation of e-government by bringing it closer to public value. However, while the DeLone and McLean models focus more on the information system approach, the model proposed was on the premise that system quality (SQ), information quality (IQ), content (CO) and format (FO) are determinants of e-government system user satisfaction. Furthermore, the net benefits through a five-dimensional public value determinants were used to evaluate e-government websites from a community perspective. Responses from 150 communities were analyzed by smart PLS 3.0 using structural equation models to examine the relationship between the constructs of the proposed model. This study contributes to the research gap in adopting DeLone and McLean's model in the e-government due to the limitation in its validation for different contexts. The results support the effect of content variables on user satisfaction and simultaneously prove that it is possible to explain net benefits, with an r-squared value of 69.1%, using the variables in the proposed model. The five dimensions of public value adopted all proved to have a positive influence with a confidence level of 95%. The level of construct significance identified is able to help in the formulation of strategies to improve e-government services.
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Imran, Faisal Jamil, and Dohyeun Kim. "An Ensemble of a Prediction and Learning Mechanism for Improving Accuracy of Anomaly Detection in Network Intrusion Environments." Sustainability 13, no. 18 (September 8, 2021): 10057. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/su131810057.
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The connectivity of our surrounding objects to the internet plays a tremendous role in our daily lives. Many network applications have been developed in every domain of life, including business, healthcare, smart homes, and smart cities, to name a few. As these network applications provide a wide range of services for large user groups, the network intruders are prone to developing intrusion skills for attack and malicious compliance. Therefore, safeguarding network applications and things connected to the internet has always been a point of interest for researchers. Many studies propose solutions for intrusion detection systems and intrusion prevention systems. Network communities have produced benchmark datasets available for researchers to improve the accuracy of intrusion detection systems. The scientific community has presented data mining and machine learning-based mechanisms to detect intrusion with high classification accuracy. This paper presents an intrusion detection system based on the ensemble of prediction and learning mechanisms to improve anomaly detection accuracy in a network intrusion environment. The learning mechanism is based on automated machine learning, and the prediction model is based on the Kalman filter. Performance analysis of the proposed intrusion detection system is evaluated using publicly available intrusion datasets UNSW-NB15 and CICIDS2017. The proposed model-based intrusion detection accuracy for the UNSW-NB15 dataset is 98.801 percent, and the CICIDS2017 dataset is 97.02 percent. The performance comparison results show that the proposed ensemble model-based intrusion detection significantly improves the intrusion detection accuracy.
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Liu, Jing, Khairul Manami Kamarudin, Yuqi Liu, and Jinzhi Zou. "Developing Pandemic Prevention and Control by ANP-QFD Approach: A Case Study on Urban Furniture Design in China Communities." International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 18, no. 5 (March 6, 2021): 2653. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijerph18052653.
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Background: An infectious disease can affect human beings at an alarming speed in modern society, where Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) has led to a worldwide pandemic, posing grave threats to public security and the social economies. However, as one of the closest attachments of urban dwellers, urban furniture hardly contributes to pandemic prevention and control. Methods: Given this critical challenge, this article aims to propose a feasible solution to coping with pandemic situations through urban furniture design, using an integrated method of Quality Function Deployment (QFD) and Analytic Network Process (ANP). Eight communities in China are selected as the research sites, since people working and living in these places have successful experience preventing and containing pandemics. Results: Three user requirements (URs), namely, usability and easy access, sanitation, and health and emotional pleasure, are determined. Meanwhile, seven design requirements (DRs) are identified, including contact reduction, effective disinfection, good appearance, social and cultural symbols, ergonomics, smart system and technology and sustainability. The overall priorities of URs and DRs and their inner dependencies are subsequently determined through the ANP-QFD method, comprising the House of Quality (HQQ). According to the theoretical results, we propose five design strategies for pandemic prevention and control. Conclusion: It is demonstrated that the incorporated method of ANP-QFD has applicability and effectiveness in the conceptual product design process. This article can also provide a new perspective for pandemic prevention and control in densely populated communities in terms of product design and development.
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Wang, Yujie, Lianchun Song, Chris Hewitt, Nicola Golding, and Zili Huang. "Improving China’s Resilience to Climate-Related Risks: The China Framework for Climate Services." Weather, Climate, and Society 12, no. 4 (October 2020): 729–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/wcas-d-19-0121.1.
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AbstractThe primary needs for climate services in China, in the form of climate information for decision-making, are to better prepare for and manage meteorological-related disasters, adaptation to climate change, and sustainable development. In this paper, the vision, structure, content, and governance of the China Framework for Climate Services, which is designed to respond to these primary needs, is described. This paper reflects on practice, lessons, and experience developing and delivering climate services in China for disaster risk reduction, agriculture, water, energy, urbanization, and major engineering projects. Four key aspects of successful climate services are highlighted: the transition of climate research to operational climate services; delivering relevant, tailored, and usable climate information; effective engagement between users and providers of climate services; and building interdisciplinary professional teams. Key challenges and opportunities for climate services are recognized in this paper: a growing gap between climate science and services capability and societal need, a lack of awareness in user communities of the climate service value for their activities, and the important need for closer and more meaningful interactions between users and providers of climate services. The delivery and uptake of high-quality, relevant, usable, and effective climate services will facilitate climate-smart decisions that will reduce climate risks and improve Chinese societal resilience.
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Shavira, Ananda, Rudiana Rudiana, and Aditya Candra Lesmana. "IMPLEMENTASI ELECTRONIC GOVERNMENT PADA PENGGUNAAN APLIKASI QLUE SEBAGAI UPAYA PENERAPAN JAKARTA SMART CITY DI DINAS KOMUNIKASI, INFORMATIKA, DAN STATISTIK PROVINSI DKI JAKARTA TAHUN 2020." Jurnal Administrasi Pemerintahan (Janitra) 1, no. 2 (February 9, 2022): 174. http://dx.doi.org/10.24198/janitra.v1i2.38250.
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The background in this research is the development of technology that has an influence on government services in realizing e-government. The implementation of e-government is one of the government's efforts to create an efficient, effective, accountable and transparent bureaucratic environment. In November 2014 the Governor of DKI Jakarta initiated the Qlue application program. The Qlue application is an application for reporting complaints about community problems in the DKI Jakarta Province. The purpose of this study is to examine and analyze how the implementation of e-government in the implementation of Jakarta Smart City through the Qlue application. The author uses the theory of the results of studies and research at the Harvard JFK School of Government which explains the elements of success that must be possessed in the development of e-government. These elements are Support (support), Capacity (ability or empowerment), Value (benefit). This research uses descriptive analysis method with a qualitative approach. Based on the results of the study, the implementation of e-government in the implementation of Jakarta Smart City through the Qlue application is still not optimal. This is because there are still some shortcomings and obstacles in the implementation of e-government in the implementation of Jakarta Smart City through the Qlue application in several user communities in the DKI Jakarta Province environment. For example, there are reports that are misdirected, reports that have not been responded to by the relevant government, and the Qlue application that still frequently crashes.Latar belakang dalam penelitian ini yaitu perkembangan teknologi yang memberikan pengaruh pada pelayanan pemerintahan dalam mewujudkan e-government. Implementasi e-government merupakan salah satu upaya pemerintah untuk menciptakan lingkungan birokrasi yang efisien, efektif, akuntabel, dan transparan. Pada November 2014 Gubernur DKI Jakarta menginisiasi program aplikasi Qlue. Apliksai Qlue merupakan aplikasi pelaporan pengaduan permasalahan masyarakat yang berada di lingkungan Provinsi DKI Jakarta. Tujuan dari penelitian ini yaitu untuk mengkaji dan menganalisis bagaimana implementasi e-government dalam penerapan Jakarta Smart City melalui aplikasi Qlue. Penulis menggunakan teori hasil kajian dan riset Harvard JFK School of Government yang menjelaskan elemen-elemen sukses yang harus dimiliki dalam pengembangan e-government. Elemen-elemen tersebut yaitu Support (dukungan), Capacity (kemampuan atau keberdayaan), Value (manfaat). Penelitian ini menggunakan metode analisis deskriptif dengan pendekatan kualitatif. Berdasarkan hasil penelitian, implementasi e-government pada penerapam Jakarta Smart City melalui aplikasi Qlue masih belum dikatakan optimal. Hal ini dikarenakan masih ada beberapa kekurangan dan kendala dalam implementasi e-government pada penerapan Jakarta Smart City melalui aplikasi Qlue pada beberapa masyarakat pengguna di lingkungan Provinsi DKI Jakarta. Seperti masih adanya laporan yang salah sasaran, laporan yang tidak direspon oleh pemerintah terkait, dan aplikasi Qlue yang masih sering eror.
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Zhou, Yanhong, Ruitao Lin, Ying-Wei Kuo, J. Jack Lee, and Ying Yuan. "BOIN Suite: A Software Platform to Design and Implement Novel Early-Phase Clinical Trials." JCO Clinical Cancer Informatics, no. 5 (January 2021): 91–101. http://dx.doi.org/10.1200/cci.20.00122.
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PURPOSE Using novel Bayesian adaptive designs has great potential to improve the efficiency of early-phase clinical trials. A major barrier for clinical researchers to adopt novel designs is the lack of easy-to-use software. Our purpose is to develop a user-friendly software platform to implement novel clinical trial designs that address various challenges in early-phase dose-finding trials. METHODS We used R Shiny to develop a web-based software platform to facilitate the use of recent novel adaptive designs. RESULTS We developed a web-based software suite, called Bayesian optimal interval (BOIN) suite, which includes R Shiny applications to handle various clinical settings, including single-agent phase I trials with and without prior information, trials with late-onset toxicity, trials to find the optimal biological dose based on risk-benefit trade-off, and drug combination trials to find a single maximum tolerated dose (MTD) or the MTD contour. The applications are built using the same software architecture to ensure the best and a uniform user experience, and they are developed using a proven software development standard operating procedure to ensure accuracy, robustness, and reproducibility. The suite is freely available with internet access and a web browser without the need of installing any other software. CONCLUSION The BOIN suite allows clinical researchers to design various types of early-phase clinical trials under a unified framework. This work is extremely important because it not only advances the clinical research and drug development by facilitating the use of novel trial designs with optimal performance but also enhances collaborations between biostatisticians and clinicians by disseminating novel statistical methodology to broader scientific communities through user-friendly software. The BOIN suite establishes a KISS principle: keep it simple, but smart.
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Suhendra, Tonny, Deny Nusyirwan, Eko Prayetno, M. Hafiz Alfahmi, Prasetya Perwira Putra Perdana, and Asri Dinata. "Purwarupa Penarik Jaring Cerdas Untuk Nelayan Kelong Di Provinsi Kepulauan Riau." Jurnal Sustainable: Jurnal Hasil Penelitian dan Industri Terapan 9, no. 2 (October 31, 2020): 103–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.31629/sustainable.v9i2.2668.
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Kepulauan Riau Province (KEPRI) which the border of the international gate is a strategic location for conducting trade activities with neighboring countries. With the vast ocean covering the land, most of the people in the KEPRI province occupy coastal areas with the profession as fishermen. The economy of the fishing community is highly dependent on the amount obtained from fishing. The large operational costs of fishing, such as fuel and selling of catches that cannot improve the family's economy and buy the need to go to sea because they still use fishing gear that is operated manually are sources of poverty in fishing communities. Base on these backgrounds, a technological innovation called smart net puller is proposed. The innovation is a result of a user-based approach that uses the Engineering Design Process approach from Stanford Design School with the Design Thinking approach. The observation was carried out in the fishing community called Kampung Bugis to find the main problem. Researchers integrate directly with fishermen. The next stage is to find an idea that is a solution to the main problem and assembling a prototype. The prototype of innovation is still simple and easy to change. The last stage of the process is the testing phase of the test. The test aims to determine the performance of the prototype and get input to improve innovation if needed later. Intelligent net pulling prototype uses Arduino Uno microcontroller technology and several supporting devices such as stepper motor. Usability testing of the physical prototypes to kelong fishermen provides information about the convenience and benefits of smart net towing.
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Vargas-Maldonado, Roberto C., Jorge G. Lozoya-Reyes, Mauricio A. Ramírez-Moreno, Jorge de J. Lozoya-Santos, Ricardo A. Ramírez-Mendoza, Blas L. Pérez-Henríquez, Augusto Velasquez-Mendez, Jose Fernando Jimenez Vargas, and Jorge Narezo-Balzaretti. "Conscious Mobility for Urban Spaces: Case Studies Review and Indicator Framework Design." Applied Sciences 13, no. 1 (December 27, 2022): 333. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app13010333.
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A lack of data collection on conscious mobility behaviors has been identified in current sustainable and smart mobility planning, development and implementation strategies. This leads to technocentric solutions that do not place people and their behavior at the center of new mobility solutions in urban centers around the globe. This paper introduces the concept of conscious mobility to link techno-economic analyses with user awareness on the impact of their travel decisions on other people, local urban infrastructure and the environment through systematic big data collection. A preliminary conscious mobility indicator framework is presented to leverage behavioral considerations to enhance urban-community mobility systems. Key factors for conscious mobility analysis have been derived from five case studies. The sample offers regional diversity (i.e., local, regional and the global urban contexts), as well as different goals in the transformation of conventional urban transport systems, from improving public transport efficiency and equipment electrification to mitigate pollution and climate risks, to focusing on equity, access and people safety. The case studies selected provide useful metrics on the adoption of cleaner, smarter, safer and more autonomous mobility technologies, along with novel people-centric program designs to build an initial set of conscious mobility indicators frameworks. The parameters were applied to the city of Monterrey, Nuevo Leon in Mexico focusing on the needs of the communities that work, study and live around the local urban campus of the Tecnologico de Monterrey’s Distrito Tec. This case study, served as an example of how conscious mobility indicators could be applied and customized to a community and region of interest. This paper introduces the first application of the conscious mobility framework for urban communities’ mobility system analysis. This more holistic assessment approach includes dimensions such as society and culture, infrastructure and urban spaces, technology, government, normativity, economy and politics, and the environment. The expectation is that the conscious mobility framework of analysis will become a useful tool for smarter and sustainable urban and mobility problem solving and decision making to enhance the quality of life all living in urban communities.
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Paris, Cecile, Surya Nepal, and Amanda Dennett. "A Government-Run Online Community to Support Recipients of Welfare Payments." International Journal of Cooperative Information Systems 27, no. 02 (June 2018): 1850001. http://dx.doi.org/10.1142/s0218843018500016.
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With the ubiquitous presence of smart phones and the availability of easy-to-use applications, there is an increase in the number of online services. A growing number of people now search for information and interact online. They expect to see services available and accessible online. To meet citizens’ expectations, governments have also increased their online presence. However, information and services are not the only reasons people go online. People also build their social circle online, seeking support and empathy, looking for someone with whom they can talk and who can understand their situation and worries. Online communities (and social networks in general) have been shown to have the potential to provide social and emotional peer-support. Our work aimed at determining whether online communities could be deployed in the public administration domain, in particular to support people receiving welfare payments, with similar benefits. We hypothesized that an online community could provide such support to disadvantaged citizens. Toward testing this hypothesis, after a user requirements analysis and some preparatory work, we designed and developed an online community for a specific target group of welfare recipients, as a collaboration between CSIRO and the Australian Department of Human Services. The community was deployed for one year. In this paper, we briefly explain our aims and the work that went into preparing for the community. We introduce the portal and the support it offered. We then report our observations and findings about both the informational and emotional support participants received, through an analysis of the comments posted in the community, and whether this support was perceived as welcome and useful.
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Javaid, Saher, and Takekazu Kato. "Adaptive Control of Energy Storage Systems for Real-Time Power Mediation Based on Energy on Demand System." Designs 6, no. 5 (October 19, 2022): 97. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/designs6050097.
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The concept of i-Energy as a new smart demand-side energy management system is proposed, which can realize the versatile and efficient control of e-power flows between distributed generators, numerous appliances, and energy storage systems in the home domain, factories, offices, and local communities. The Energy on Demand (EoD) system is proposed, which is the automatic power control and management system that supplies power to home appliances based on the power demand requests issued from the home appliances. The EoD system can guarantee the reduction in total power consumption by implementing a ceiling control while keeping the quality of life (QoL) of the home user considering the limitation of power supply. This paper proposes an adaptive battery storage management and control method based on the EoD system, which we call the “storage-supported EoD system”. In particular, the storage-supported EoD system can handle multiple power generators, including storage batteries. The overall goals of this paper are not limited to the extension of multiple power supplies only; rather, it provides additional contributions, which are (i) extend the existing power consumption control of home appliances and peak demand shift control (i.e., EoD system) by adding a second power source, i.e., a storage battery system; (ii) propose adaptive storage system design and management for the EoD system; (iii) realize minimum storage capacity for large peak power consumption; and (iv) minimize the home user’s discomfort level due to the limited power supply of one power source. The simulation results have shown the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm with a couple of experiments using real-life data in the smart apartment room. Additionally, simulation results are presented to compare and evaluate the proposed system performance with the EoD system.