Smart Environment & Smart City Sample Clauses

Smart Environment & Smart City. Smart Environments are more properly identify like merging system composed by embedded sensor and actuator systems, networked by wireless internet, with the capabilities to sense, elaborate and communicate (AALIANCE – The European Ambient Assisted Living Innovation Platform, 2010). The evolution of smart environments has been possible by recent advances in micro-electro mechanical systems (MEMS), in global diffusion and portability of wireless devices and low-cost sensors to communicate wirelessly. These network systems are conceived to be installed different type of environment: house, school, hospital, clinic, office, car, etc.. in the next future, all these network could be merged together and create a bigger network commonly called “Smart City”. Smart city could represent the future trend of urban development; in short smart city is the actual approach of “smart earth” (Lu S., 2011) concept, introduced by IBM in 2008, applying to a restrict region. Hao et. al (Xxx X. et al., 2012), in their article gave the definition of smart city starting from different definition of smart city concept and existing research: “Utilizing next generation of ICT, such as internet of things, cloud computing, smart city integrate urban information system, and fulfil high intelligent urban management, operation and people’s life. In order to this target, smart city must utilize information, knowledge, experience and other resources and intelligent technologies, integrate and collaborate with urban information systems, construct next new generation of ICT infrastructure, achieve the goals of high efficiency of city management, timely and convenient service, reliable urban operation, green economy and comfortable living.” In this way the integration of all agents allow the possibility to share data and information among all actors connected. The agents involved could include: passive and intelligent sensing devices which provide data and information about the environment and the users, but also sensors to measure physiological and behavioural parameters. In this context wearable, portable and also implantable multi-sensors system should be developed in order to facilitate continue monitoring of elderly peple daily life. In addition to sensors even sensory-motor devices are included in this network. They should be able to act based on the information perceived by environment and pure actuator, able to perform action based on information gathered through network by other device...
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