Section: New Results

Smart Cities

Participants : Nathalie Mitton, Valeria Loscri, Riccardo Petrolo.

Smart City represents one of the most promising, prominent and challenging Internet of Things (IoT) applications, but recent ICT trends suggest more and more that cities could also benefit from Cloud computing. The convergence of IoT paradigm and Cloud computing technology, can play a fundamental role for developing of highly level and organized cities form an ICT point of view, but it is of paramount importance to deal a critical analysis to identify the issues and challenges deriving from this synergy. This detailed study has been dealt in [7] , where it is shown as the semantic annotation of the sensors in the cloud, and innovative services can be implemented and considered by bridging Cloud and Internet of Things. The Cloud of Things (CoT) paradigm is also considered in [16] , where it is shown how the CoT arrives to better distribute resources, putting together and enabling therefore a horizontal integration of various Internet of Things(IoT) platforms. Semantic interoperability of diverse IoT platforms are also a key concept in [18] , where the virtualization of different IoT systems in order to model and represent the architecture in accordance with the common standards-based IoT ontologies is applied. The environment comes with a range of visual drag-and-drop tools, which boosts developers’ productivity.