Authors:
Gustavo H. R. P. Tomas
1
;
Welington M. da Silva
2
;
Paulo A. da M. S. Neto
3
;
Vinicius C. Garcia
3
;
Alexandre Alvaro
4
and
Kiev Gama
3
Affiliations:
1
Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE) and Recife Center for Advanced Studies and Systems (C.E.S.A.R), Brazil
;
2
Federal University of Pernambuco and Recife Center for Advanced Studies and Systems (C.E.S.A.R), Brazil
;
3
Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), Brazil
;
4
Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), Brazil
Keyword(s):
Smart Cities, Internet of Things, Architecture.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Biomedical Engineering
;
Cloud Computing
;
Collaboration and e-Services
;
Complex Systems Modeling and Simulation
;
Coupling and Integrating Heterogeneous Data Sources
;
Data Communication Networking
;
Data Engineering
;
Databases and Information Systems Integration
;
e-Business
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Health Information Systems
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Integration/Interoperability
;
Internet Agents
;
Internet of Things
;
Internet Systems Performance
;
Interoperability
;
Knowledge Management and Information Sharing
;
Knowledge-Based Systems
;
Model Driven Architectures and Engineering
;
Modeling of Distributed Systems
;
Ontologies and the Semantic Web
;
Requirements Analysis And Management
;
Semantic Web Technologies
;
Sensor Networks
;
Services Science
;
Simulation and Modeling
;
Software Agents and Internet Computing
;
Software and Architectures
;
Software Engineering
;
Symbolic Systems
;
Telecommunications
;
Ubiquitous Computing
Abstract:
The smart cities concept arises from the necessity of managing several problems caused by the unbridled population growth at urban centers. To make a city become “smart” it is needed to employ Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) to access, process and deliver information according to the urban context. This information can be employed to mitigate several urban issues, such as traffic jams, high natural resource consumption, epidemias, sustainability, waste management, low quality and life expectancy of citizens, among others. Thus, the increasing need to create architectures that are able to interact with the Internet of Things, i.e., several built-in devices, appliances, sensors and actuators embedded in each urban context. This work is a systematic review regarding proposals for such architectures. After selecting the relevant approaches, we have identified a set of issues that these approaches aim to solve and some architectural patterns employed.