Smart and Connected Cities and Communities
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Item type: Item , Challenges and Future Directions for Integrating Healthcare Wearable Sensors into Smart Cities and Communities(2024-01-03) Domaradzka, Anna; Biesaga, Mikolaj; Roszczynska-Kurasinska, Magdalena; Domaradzka, EwaThis paper explores the challenges related to implementation of wearable sensors in the context of smart cities, particularly in the domains of health and wellbeing. Such sensors are increasingly used in clinical and public-health interventions, for early symptom identification, performance alerts, and real- time monitoring. While opportunities and benefits presented by wearable technologies are relatively well-known, this paper’s goal is to highlight risks and challenges related to their implementation. Based on the existing literature and lessons learned from EU-funded projects in which smartbands are used to collect health-related data, we share insight from integrating wearable sensors into the smart city fabric.Item type: Item , Role of Policy Strategies in Closing Urban-Rural Gap: Evidence from Smart Thermostat Adoption(2024-01-03) Zhao, Chunjie; Zhang, JingSmart technologies play one important role in improving quality of life and fostering sustainable development. This study investigates the factors for smart thermostat adoption, with a specific focus on the policy measures that encourage their adoption. Furthermore, it explores the potential influence of these policies in reducing the adoption gap between urban and rural areas. Through the logistic regression, we identified a positive relationship between the implementation of policies in promoting smart thermostat adoption, and the tax rebate policy was effective in mitigating the urban-rural differences in adoption. The findings of this study contribute to the broader discourse on sustainable urban development, technology diffusion, and equitable socio-economic growth.Item type: Item , Sorting the Trash: How Smart Waste Management Systems Contribute to Sustainable Development in Smart Cities(2024-01-03) Strunk, Jobin; Ebner, Katharina; Anschütz, Christian; Smolnik, StefanWaste management is a relevant challenge for cities around the world to ensure citizens’ life quality, and to significantly contribute to environmental protection. Hence, inefficiencies in waste management thwarts the sustainable development of cities. Smart waste management can help improving the waste management services of cities by pursuing strategic goals, including waste reduction, waste collection and transport optimization, and waste treatment optimization. However, current research insufficiently addresses the contribution of information systems used in the context of smart waste management to sustainable development. Based on a literature review, we show how different systems in the smart waste management context contribute to strategic goals and, thereby, to sustainable development. We call for more research on smart waste management that accounts for the information systems’ contribution to sustainable development.Item type: Item , See It, Say It: Encouraging Citizen Reporting of Sustainability and Inclusivity Infrastructure Issues in Cities(2024-01-03) Dorner, Verena; Barta, Akos; Qua, KennethCitizen reporting apps are becoming increasingly popular in smart cities to help local authorities identify, prioritize and resolve issues with public infrastructure faster and according to citizen needs. However, soliciting and sustaining high-quality incident reports is challenging since free riding is an attractive option. Another challenge is making such apps equally open and accessible to less affluent and vulnerable groups. We model citizen reporting as a public good game to investigate how two potential non-monetary, non-competitive interventions affect contributions: increasing the salience of the citizen’s group identity, and increasing the salience of the expressive values. We conducted an online experiment to test our hypotheses. Our results reveal that neither salience of group identity nor expressive values increased contributions toward the public good.Item type: Item , The role of governance to support smart community development: a systematic literature review(2024-01-03) Ciesielska, Magdalena; Viale Pereira, GabrielaThis paper studies the interaction between the smart community and smart governance concepts to elaborate on the role of governance to support local governments in developing smart communities’ strategies and solutions. We perform a systematic literature review to analyze how the concept of smart community has advanced in terms of its definitions, context, benefits, challenges, and enablers and propose a unified term with a focus on the governance aspects. The review highlights that some conceptualizations of smart communities have a more technical perspective that evolved towards a socio-technical concept, being ICT a mediator to behavior change and a tool to improve decision-making and citizen-centricity, as well as promoting social governanceItem type: Item , Introduction to the Minitrack on Smart and Connected Cities and Communities(2024-01-03) Viale Pereira, Gabriela; Rodríguez Bolívar, Manuel Pedro; Domaradzka, AnnaItem type: Item , A Reference Model for Urban Data Governance and its Design Principles(2024-01-03) Bozkurt, Yusuf; Rossmann, Alexander; Pervez, ZeeshanSmart cities are data factories, generating a huge amount of heterogeneous data in a complex network with many actors. Yet municipalities struggle to properly manage urban data to maximize data utilization in smart city services delivered to their citizens. Data governance is a concept that helps manage the city's data assets properly. However, cities face difficulties in implementing data governance because of a lack of guidance from academia and practitioners tailored to cities' needs. This paper presents an urban data governance reference model created in line with the design science research paradigm. The reference model presents the design principles of urban data governance within eight dimensions, synthesized from expert interviews with 27 European Union cities and a literature review.