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SUMMARY
To improve quality of life and ensure sustainability, future smart cities will increasingly rely on information and communications technology to optimise the performance of transportation, security, business, telecommunications, water-management, and energy-supply systems. DSG’s FutureCities research project is investigating the design of the middleware needed to support such cities.
The FuturCities project is focused on the exploitation of data from very diverse sensors, including those contributed by individuals, to enable (semi) automatic management of city-scale services. In particular, the project team is investigating the design of new programming models, middleware architectures, communication infrastructures, and advanced analytics to allow sensor data to be gathered, transported, and interpreted effectively to optimise urban resource usage and service delivery, and thereby improve the quality of life and sustainability of cities.
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SOLUTIONS
Current research is focused in four areas:
- Smart urban-scale sensing addresses middleware and communications architectures to allow high volumes of data from both public and user-contributed sensors to be gathered and exploited by smart cities. This area merges wireless sensor networks, vehicular sensor networks, and participatory sensing.
- Smart infrastructure addresses the management of urban-scale critical infrastructure, with a particular interest in autonomic management techniques modelled as self-organising multi-agent systems that exploit model-free learning algorithms to associate meaning and actions with available sensor data.
- Smart transportation focuses on improving the reliability and safety of road transportation, in particular via advanced urban traffic control and highway management systems.
- Smart Services addresses middleware for adaptable software services, providing run-time statistical timing analysis, timely reconfiguration, and a software framework for cross-layer adaptation of multi-layer systems
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LINK: http://www.dsg.cs.tcd.ie/FutureCities
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