Policy making for smart cities: innovation and social inclusive economic growth for sustainability

• Published in: Journal of science and technology policy management (Online) 2018-07, Vol.9 (2), p.126-133
• Main Authors: Visvizi, Anna, Lytras, Miltiadis D, Damiani, Ernesto, Mathkour, Hassan
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Subjects: Algorithms; Citizen participation; Datasets; Economic development; Economic growth; Innovations; Intelligence; Internet; Smart cities; Social networks; Sustainability; Sustainable development; Technology; Urban areas; Urban development
• ISSN: 2053-4620; 2053-4639
• DOI: 10.1108/JSTPM-07-2018-079

To this end, greater attention needs to be paid to emerging technologies, such as the internet of things, cognitive computing, advanced analytics and business intelligence, 5G networks, anticipatory and context-aware computing and advanced distributed data warehouse platforms. [...]smart cities provide a context for a multidisciplinary discussion related to the value-added proposition of several leading-edge technologies, including immersive technologies, virtual and augmented reality (Lytras et al., 2016), wearable technologies, cloud computing, data science, big-data insights, social networks (Lytras and Mathkour, 2017), Web applications and internet technologies (Lytras et al., 2017; Wu et al., 2018). According to the Digital Agenda for Europe, the smart cities concept means smarter urban transport networks, upgraded water supply and waste-disposal facilities, along with more efficient ways to light and heat buildings. Each dataset has been extracted from laboratory-controlled scenarios carried out with up to 400 people walking through a corridor whose configuration changed in the form of the amplitude of its entrance doors and the amplitude of its exit doors from one experiment to another. [...]each dataset contained different groups of coordinates that compose pedestrian trajectories.