Interdisciplinary Technological Advancements in Smart Cities

This book explores interdisciplinary technological advancements in smart cities. The book begins with a comprehensive study of smart cities, followed by their benefits and shortcomings. The authors show how, with the help of digital technology, cities are becoming more sustainable and efficient, leading to a better quality of life. The book includes a comprehensive review of literature, research works, and case studies, which are presented to demonstrate how various technologies can be integrated into smart cities. The book includes scenarios in smart agriculture, smart transportation, smart healthcare and more. This book also offers researchers, students, academicians, and professionals working in this field an extensive range of smart city applications.

Includes scenarios in smart agriculture, smart transportation, smart healthcare and more Covers recent interdisciplinary advancements in smart cities Presents a collection of literature reviews, research articles, and case studies in smart cities

Auteur

Arij Naser Abougreen received the M.Sc degree in Communication engineering from the University of Tripoli, Libya, in 2018. She is studying a PhD in communication Engineering. Her research interests include image processing, machine learning, Internet of Things and wireless communication. She has three years of teaching experience. She is working as an Assistant Lecturer in Electrical and Electronic Engineering Department in University of Tripoli, Libya. She served as a technical Program Committee member and a reviewer for several conferences such as 7th IEEE World Forum on the Internet of Things (WFIoT2021), New Orleans, USA; 11th series of IEEE Symposium on Computer Applications and Industrial Electronics (ISCAIE 2021); 44th International Conference on Telecommunications and Signal Processing (TSP), 2021; 30th International Conference on Computing and Communication Networks (ICCCN-2021), organized by Manchester Metropolitan University, United Kingdom and EAI CICom 2022 - 3rd EAI International Conference on Computational Intelligence and Communications. She also served as a reviewer for journal of Multimedia Tools and Applications (Springer) and Applications and Applied Artificial Intelligence journal (Taylor & Francis). She has authored/ co-authored four book chapters and two papers. She will be acting as a session chair for the IEEE-IITCEE 2023 conference. She is a member of IEEE Public Safety Technology Smart Algorithm and Informatics Committee. She is currently editing a book to be published by AAP. She has published three books by IGI Global and CRC Press.

Shilpa Mehta received her BE and MTech degrees in Electronics and Communication Engineering from Maharishi Dayanand University, India, and Northcap University, India in 2009 and 2011, respectively. She completed her PhD degree from Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand in July 2022. She has five years of teaching experience from different reputed colleges and universities in India. Currently, she is working as a Teaching Assistant in the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, School of Engineering, Computer and Mathematical Sciences, Auckland University of Technology (AUT), Auckland, New Zealand. She was awarded Summer Doctoral Research Scholarship for her PhD research. She has worked on various interdisciplinary research projects and her research interests include Radio Frequency Integrated Circuits, RF front ends, Optimization, Internet of Things, Wireless Communication, Artificial Intelligence, Healthcare, Radars, and Software-defined Radios, Smart cities. She has presented research works during various IEEE conferences and published journal articles in top peer-reviewed journals. She served as a session chair for IEEE CSRSWTC 2021 and an organizer for International Workshop on Combinatorial Image Analysis (IWCIA) 2022. She is serving as a peer reviewer for Elsevier, Wiley, Hindawi and IEEE Access journals, and a technical committee member for various IEEE conferences. She is editing a special issue for Advanced Engineering Technology and Application Journal and serving as an Executive Editor for International Transactions on Artificial Intelligence Journal. She is also serving as a Reviewer Board Member for the International Research Journal of Engineering & Applied Sciences. She is currently editing two books to be published by IGI Global. She will be acting as a session chair for the IEEE-IITCEE 2023 conference.

Cristina Costa received the M.S. degree in electronic engineering from the University of Genoa, Italy, in 1996, and the Ph.D. degree in information and communication technologies from the University of Trento, Italy, in 2005, with a thesis on video transmission over wireless links. She joined the Internet Services Group, Telecom Italia Lab, Turin, Italy, as a Researcher, providing technology transfer and scientific support to operational Telecom Italia

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Part I . Technological advancements .- Chapter 1. A brief overview of Quantum Cryptography within the purview of Smart City.- Chapter 2. Blockchain for smart cities management and security: A Review.- Chapter 3. The role of Artificial Intelligence in Real-time driver drowsiness detection.- Chapter 4. Crop Diversification- A Climate Smart Practice.- Chapter 5. SUSTAINABLE FOOD SYSTEMS SHAPING THE SMART CITIES.- Chapter 6. Sustainable Smart Agriculture.- Chapter 7. Sustainable Smart Food Security.- Part II . Applications .- Chapter 8. Design of multi-hop Autonomous vehicles.- Chapter 9. NEURAL NETWORK LICENSE PLATES RECOGNITION SYSTEM BASED ON HISTOGRAM OF ORIENTED GRADIENT FEATURES.- Chapter 10. An exploratory evaluation of a patch antenna concept for underwater unmanned aerial vehicles.- Chapter 11. Development of an Acoustic Conduction Mechanism of a Metamaterial for Underwater Environment Applications.- Chapter 12. Communication Protocols for Internet of Medical Things (IoMT).