Search results for " smart cities"
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A Network Tomography Approach for Traffic Monitoring in Smart Cities
2018
Traffic monitoring is a key enabler for several planning and management activities of a Smart City. However, traditional techniques are often not cost efficient, flexible, and scalable. This paper proposes an approach to traffic monitoring that does not rely on probe vehicles, nor requires vehicle localization through GPS. Conversely, it exploits just a limited number of cameras placed at road intersections to measure car end-to-end traveling times. We model the problem within the theoretical framework of network tomography, in order to infer the traveling times of all individual road segments in the road network. We specifically deal with the potential presence of noisy measurements, and t…
Urban Energy Hubs and Microgrids: Smart Energy Planning for Cities
2017
In this chapter, we try to connect the urban design features with energy consumption and consequent pollution parameters. After a review of a selected set of approaches to Urban Energy Systems study with a special focus on electrical power systems, urban energy systems are proposed as networks of multi-source hybrid energy hubs, where different energy flows are collected at the same bus and can be stored, delivered or transformed as needed. Resources at the hub and infrastructures interact with each other; therefore, both definition and boundaries of such energy systems at urban level are difficult to be clearly outlined. Similarly, the possibility to generate new operational models based o…
Riqualificazione e sostenibilità - L’involucro verde come campo privilegiato di sperimentazione tecnologica.
2015
The study of the housing green for the redevelopment of the buildings along with the testing of innovative products for the realization of vertical gardens and the design of guidelines for the construction and environmental transformation of the waterfront of Marina Todaro of Palma di Montechiaro "act as instruments to define the possible prospects to Palma di Montechiaro can apply for green city of the Province of Agrigento, exploring scenarios still little practiced in this context and in the short and medium term can be attributed character priority ". The originality of this research is also experienced in site participatory approach with the participation of the inhabitants, considered…
Una rigenerazione smart per i centri storici: da Smart Cities a Smart Heritage
2013
What is the relationship between contemporary cities of virtual networks and stakeholders with the historical centers, places of cultural and social heritage? The transformation of global cities make you thing on the contemporary relationship between man and historic center. The European proposal of the Smart Cities responds to the human need of identification in the living spaces, focusing on the six smart parameters involving people in making cities. The article lays the foundation to recognize the historic city as factor of urban regeneration starting from the analysis of some Smart historic centers in Italy and of the world most successful. The aim is to propose new smart models for the…
Urban Waste As Resource For Sustainable Environment
2013
The emerging model of waste disposal, develops an integrated approach based on waste reduction, selection, recycling, energy recovery and residual use of landfill. Here we discuss the fundamentals of a proper planning of waste disposal system, specially the thermal recovery, the integration and the methodological approach, either from the environmental and economic point of view. The growing demand for energy, the resulting environmental problems due to satisfy the demand for energy and the complex-economic system, necessitate the study of new technologies such as energy from municipal solid waste (MSW) obtaining as a result of decrease huge mass of solid waste to sanitary landifill and emi…
Inquadramento generale
2015
Il saggio tratta il tema dello stato dell'arte delle smart city attraverso una disamina puntuale dei progetti europei più eloquenti. Smart city inteso anche come processo condiviso per rafforzare il senso di appartenenza alla comunità, promuovendo ambienti partecipativi e democratici. Il coordinamento delle iniziative a livello locale è sicuramente un'altro aspetto importante per favorire una maggiore integrazione nel portafoglio di iniziative. L'evoluzione del concetto di smart city è modellata da un complesso mix di tecnologie, fattori sociali ed economici, meccanismi di governance e driver diversi: l'attuazione del percorso smart city segue percorsi molto vari a seconda degli obiettivi, …
The Territorial Dimension of Living Lab Approaches: Starting the European “Participant Observatory”
2011
Territory production can be intended as any process of spatial transformation deriving from a sustainable and reciprocal dialogue between local communities and their spatial context along history time; the territory is a dynamic but durable balance between human settlements and their environments. Territory intended in this way - maybe the major competitive factor of regions and their economic actors too - depends less on merely technological advances, rather than socio-technical innovations able to generate better life quality in cities and regions. This is why in the CIP project “Periphèria”, started in November 2010, a European Observatory of LLs and Smart Cities will be set up, conceive…
General Overview
2016
Il capitolo introduce alla tematica smart city attraverso un exscursus storico che ne traccia i passaggi salienti: la nascita delle politiche globali ambientali sino al livello della maturità raggiunto con il Protocollo di Kyoto (1997); poi ancora il Pacchetto Clima 20-20-20 redatto dalla Commissione Europea nel 2008 che traccia un'altro punto cruciale che prelude ai progetti e alle iniziative in ambito smart cities. La Strategia Energetica Europea al 2050 rappresenta il quadro di riferimento a cui tendere. Il capitolo si conclude con una rassegna dei sistemi di ranking più popolari e con una proposta di analisi. The chapter introduces to smart city issue through a historical excursus, whic…
Time-Constrained Node Visit Planning for Collaborative UAV-WSN Distributed Applications.
2022
Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are often studied as tools to perform data collection from Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs). Path planning is a fundamental aspect of this endeavor. Works in the current literature assume that data are always ready to be retrieved when the UAV passes. This operational model is quite rigid and does not allow for the integration of the UAV as a computational object playing an active role in the network. In fact, the UAV could begin the computation on a first visit and retrieve the data later. Potentially, the UAV could orchestrate the distributed computation to improve its performance, change its parameters, and even upload new applications to the sensor network…
Presentazione
2012
Parole chiave come sostenibilità, compatibilità, emissioni zero, riqualificazione, recupero e riuso, tecnologie innovative, nanotecnologie e nanomateriali, animano oggi il dibattito culturale su questioni ambientali, urbane e architettoniche, imponendo contributi multidisciplinari e specialistici che possano fornire risposte operative e concrete per lo sviluppo e il controllo del territorio. In un contesto di cambiamenti economici e tecnologici, causati dalla globalizzazione e da un costante processo d’integrazione e d’interazione, gli edifici autosufficienti e le Smart Cities rappresentano già una risposta: le città del terzo millennio dovranno coniugare la competitività con uno sviluppo u…