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Universality and Interoperability Across Smart City Ecosystems

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Distributed, Ambient and Pervasive Interactions. Smart Environments, Ecosystems, and Cities (HCII 2022)

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Contemporary smart cities involve a very high number of software applications and hardware devices that connect to the physical and social space of cities and form complex global ecosystems in different knowledge and activity domains (transportation, logistics, healthcare, local communities, industry, governance, social care and many more). In this context, smart cities can be considered multi-layered complex systems, systems of systems, that provide ubiquitous access to services, applications, platforms, and infrastructures. Although the inherent heterogeneity of Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices and their platforms, is one of the challenges smart city ecosystems face, several implementations promote digital transformation methodologies that attempt to bridge the different domains. Multiple IoT and software platforms, ranging from open source to proprietary solutions, implement different architectures and communication protocols for exchanging data streams. The diversity of these platforms though disrupts the creation of smart city ecosystems and prohibits the establishment of holistic and universal access models.

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Acknowledgments

The research work of two of the authors (D. Bechtsis and E. Syrmos) was supported by the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) 2014–2020, Central Macedonia Operational Programme, Project ‘iWet: Intelligent IoT System for Quantitative and Qualitative Measurements for water distribution networks’ MIS 5136429.

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  1. URENIO Research, Faculty of Engineering, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Ioannis Tsampoulatidis & Nicos Komninos

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    Ioannis Tsampoulatidis

  3. Department of Industrial Engineering and Management, School of Engineering, International Hellenic University, Thessaloniki (IHU), Greece

    Evangelos Syrmos & Dimitrios Bechtsis

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Tsampoulatidis, I., Komninos, N., Syrmos, E., Bechtsis, D. (2022). Universality and Interoperability Across Smart City Ecosystems. In: Streitz, N.A., Konomi, S. (eds) Distributed, Ambient and Pervasive Interactions. Smart Environments, Ecosystems, and Cities. HCII 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13325. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-05463-1_16

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