Smart City Networks: Through the Internet of Things

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This book both analyzes and synthesizes new cutting-edge theories and methods for future design implementations in smart cities through interdisciplinary synergizing of architecture, technology, and theInternet of Things (IoT). Implementation of IoT enables the collection and data exchange of objects embedded with electronics, software, sensors, and network connectivity. Recently IoT practices have moved into uniquely identifiable objects that are able to transfer data directly into networks. This book features new technologically advanced ideas, highlighting properties of smart future city networks. Chapter contributors include theorists, computer scientists, mathematicians, and interdisciplinary planners, who currently work on identifying theories, essential elements, and practices where the IoT can impact the formation of smart cities and sustainability via optimization, network analyses, data mining, mathematical modeling and engineering. Moreover, this book includes research-based theories and real world practices aimed toward graduate researchers, experts, practitioners and the general public interested in architecture, engineering, mathematical modeling, industrial design, computer science technologies, and related fields. Front Matter ....Pages i-x Designing Access to Nature for Residential Buildings (Nick V. Baker)....Pages 1-9 Virtual and Augmented Reality Applications in Building Industry (Shahrokh Shamalinia)....Pages 11-24 Asia’s Cities: Necessity, Challenges and Solutions for Going ‘Smart’ (Rupesh S. Iyengar)....Pages 25-41 Development of Smart Cities from Fiction to Reality in Member States of the Gulf Cooperation Council (Jihad Awad, Afaq Hyder, Adi Irfan)....Pages 43-63 Smart Cities: Distributed Intelligence or Central Planning? (Hermann Haken, Juval Portugali)....Pages 65-86 Wireless Protocols for Smart Cities (Gaurav Sarin)....Pages 87-109 Leveraging Smart City Projects for Benefitting Citizens: The Role of ICTs (Renata Paola Dameri, Francesca Ricciardi)....Pages 111-128 Energy Consumption of the Building Sector: Incorporating Urbanization, Local Climate Change, and Energy Poverty (M. Santamouris, C. Cartalis)....Pages 129-149 Systems Science Simulation Modeling to Inform Urban Health Policy and Planning (Yan Li, Jo Ivey Boufford, José A. Pagán)....Pages 151-166 Smart Cities IoT: Enablers and Technology Road Map (Larissa R. Suzuki)....Pages 167-190 Cities as Visuospatial Networks (A. Natapov, D. Fisher-Gewirtzman)....Pages 191-205 Hidden Geometry of Urban Landscapes for Smart City Planners (Dimitri Volchenkov)....Pages 207-227