Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Karlsruhe, Germany
Smart Cities
Smart cities can provide solution to growing urbanization and related environmental problems, as well as improve quality of life for the smart city citizens, but at the same time open new challenges in the domain of Smart City architecture design and support of service interaction in such a complex service ecosystem.
Our team aims at understanding these interactions, focusing mainly on urban planning, smart energy, smart mobility, public lighting, emergency, smart environment, e-health and e-government. Furthermore, we study Smart City from the perspective of a layered software architecture underlying and supporting the services, while orchestrating them towards optimal interaction and resource utilization.
Research Topics
- Identification and modelling of Smart City services
- Examination of interactions among Smart City services
- Layered software architecture of Smart City
- Value creation in Smart City and citizen engagement
- The role of big data analysis to support processes in the Smart City
Selected publications
[1] Walletzky, L., Buhnova, B., & Carrubbo, L. (2018). Value-Driven Conceptualization of Services in the Smart City: A Layered Approach. In Social Dynamics in a Systems Perspective (pp. 85-98). Springer, Cham.
[2] Bangui, H., Buhnova, B., Rakrak, S., & Raghay, S. (2017, May). Smart mobile technologies for the city of the future. In Smart City Symposium Prague (SCSP), 2017 (pp. 1-6). IEEE. ISO 690
[3] Caputo, F., Formisano, V., Buhnova, B., & Walletzký, L. (2016, September). Beyond the digital ecosystems view: Insights from Smart Communities. In 9th Annual Conference of the EuroMed Academy of Business. ISO 690
Partners
Team Members
Barbora Bühnová
Head of the Smart Cities group
Leonard Walletzký
Hind Bangui
