@article{10902/15259,
year = {2018},
month = {1},
url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10902/15259},
abstract = {The Smart City paradigm has become one of the most important research topics around the globe. Particularly in Europe, it is considered as a solution for unstoppable increase of high density urban environments and the European Commission has included the Smart City research as one of the key objectives for the FP7 (Seventh Framework Program) and H2020 (Horizon 2020) research initiatives. As a result, a considerable amount of quality research, with particular emphasis on information and communication technologies, has been produced. In this paper, we review the current efforts dedicated in Europe to this research topic. Particular attention is paid in the review to the platforms and infrastructure technologies adopted to introduce the Internet of Things into the city, taking into account the constraints and harshness of urban environments. Furthermore, this paper also considers the efforts in the experimental perspective, which includes the review of existing Smart City testbeds, part of wider European initiatives such as FIRE (Future Internet Research and Experimentation) and FIWARE. Last but not least, the main efforts in providing interoperability between the different experimental facilities are also presented.},
organization = {This work was funded in part by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Programme of the FESTIVAL project (Federated Interoperable Smart ICT Services Development and Testing
Platforms) under grant agreement 643275, and from the Japanese National Institute of Information and Communications Technology.},
publisher = {Institute of Electronics, Information and Communication Engineers},
publisher = {IEICE Transactions on Communications, 2018, E101.B (1), 2-15},
title = {On the use of information and infrastructure technologies for the smart city research in Europe: a survey},
author = {Santana Martínez, Juan Ramón and Maggio, Martino and Di Bernardo, Roberto and Sotres García, Pablo and Sánchez González, Luis and Muñoz Gutiérrez, Luis},
}