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TY - GEN
T1 - Smart cities
T2 - engaging users and developers to foster innovation ecosystems
AU - Lea, Rodger
AU - Blackstock, Michael
AU - Vogt, David
AU - Giang, Nam
PY - 2015/9/7
Y1 - 2015/9/7
N2 - Increasingly, city planners and government officials understand that cities are engines of innovation and wealth creation. Equally, there is a growing understanding that the application of technology in support of Smart Cities helps grow the urban economy and deliver better services to citizens. However, often Smart City projects are top- down projects focused on improving city infrastructure using technology. We argue, and our experience over the last decade has shown, that often, citizen driven, or grass-roots based Smart City projects deliver better value and sustainable success. In this paper we report on our work to engage citizens and the technology community in smart city projects and highlight some lessons learnt from our experiences. We show how a modest investment in a Smart City Data Hub (using our IoT platform – WoTKit) plus development tools based on Node-RED helps bootstrap a Smart City innovation cluster.
AB - Increasingly, city planners and government officials understand that cities are engines of innovation and wealth creation. Equally, there is a growing understanding that the application of technology in support of Smart Cities helps grow the urban economy and deliver better services to citizens. However, often Smart City projects are top- down projects focused on improving city infrastructure using technology. We argue, and our experience over the last decade has shown, that often, citizen driven, or grass-roots based Smart City projects deliver better value and sustainable success. In this paper we report on our work to engage citizens and the technology community in smart city projects and highlight some lessons learnt from our experiences. We show how a modest investment in a Smart City Data Hub (using our IoT platform – WoTKit) plus development tools based on Node-RED helps bootstrap a Smart City innovation cluster.
KW - Smart Cities
KW - Middleware
KW - innovation
KW - Data Hubs
KW - Node-RED
KW - Internet of Things (IoT)
KW - WoTKit
U2 - 10.1145/2800835.2801629
DO - 10.1145/2800835.2801629
M3 - Conference contribution/Paper
SN - 9781450335751
SP - 1535
EP - 1542
BT - UbiComp '15 Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers
PB - Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Press
CY - New York
ER -