Smart Cities in Application: Healthcare, Policy, and Innovation

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This book explores categories of applications and driving factors surrounding the Smart City phenomenon. The contributing authors provide perspective on the Smart Cities, covering numerous applications and classes of applications. The book uses a top-down exploration of the driving factors in Smart Cities, by including focal areas including “Smart Healthcare,” “Public Safety & Policy Issues,” and “Science, Technology, & Innovation.” Contributors have direct and substantive experience with important aspects of Smart Cities and discuss issues with technologies & standards, roadblocks to implementation, innovations that create new opportunities, and other factors relevant to emerging Smart City infrastructures. Features an exploration of Smart City issues and solutions from a variety of stakeholders in the evolving fieldPresents conversational, nuanced, and forward thinking perspectives on Smart Cities, their implications, limitations, obstacles, and opportunitiesIncludes contributions from industry insiders who have direct, relevant experience with their respective subjects as well as positioning and corporate stature Front Matter ....Pages i-xxii Front Matter ....Pages 1-1 Personalizing Healthcare in Smart Cities (Eduardo Pérez-Roman, Michelle Alvarado, Meredith Barrett)....Pages 3-18 Creating an Equitable Smart City (Catherine Crago Blanton, Walt Trybula)....Pages 19-48 Smart Responders for Smart Cities: A VR/AR Training Approach for Next Generation First Responders (George Koutitas, Scott Smith, Grayson Lawrence, Keith Noble)....Pages 49-66 Front Matter ....Pages 67-67 Smart Transport (Michael Brown)....Pages 69-83 Smart City Automation, Securing the Future (Adam Cason, David Wierschem)....Pages 85-99 Smart Cities Applications of Blockchain (Joe Moorman, Michael Stricklen)....Pages 101-117 Front Matter ....Pages 119-119 The Evolving 5G Landscape (Liam Quinn)....Pages 121-139 Architecting IOT for Smart Cities (Achamkulamgara Arun)....Pages 141-152 Measuring Innovation: Tracking the Growth of Smart City Ideas (Steve Pearson)....Pages 153-166 Back Matter ....Pages 167-171