Smart Cities: Blockchain-Based Systems, Networks, and Data examines the various components that make up a smart city. It focuses on infrastructure, processes, and services and outlines approaches for services such as health, transport, energy, and more. With an underlying emphasis on blockchain networks, the authors examine ways to provide the management of resources and activities by creating a more secure and trustless operating systems where resources are more effectively allocated and managed. Features • Novel approaches toward the provision of smart city services • Detailed explanations of how a blockchain-based smart city network operates • Novel design and architecture for cutting-edge technologies such as energy systems and vehicular devices interacting with blockchain across smart cities • Monitoring of data flow and the movement of several data types across different components of a smart city • Comprehensive analysis of issues affecting entities across a smart city and the effects of blockchain-based solutions This book is a practical and detailed demonstration for researchers and industry professionals who would use blockchain technology for effective city management.
In Smart Cities, Anthony M. Townsend documents this emerging futuristic landscape while considering the motivations, aspirations, and shortcomings of the key actors—entrepreneurs, mayors, philanthropists, and software developers—at work ...
This volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series offers a concise introduction to smart cities, presenting key concepts, definitions, examples, and historical contexts, along with discussions of both the drawbacks and the benefits of ...
This book provides the basics of smart cities, and it examines the possible future trends of this technology.
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"In Smart Cities, urbanist and technology expert Anthony Townsend takes a broad historical look at the forces that have shaped the planning and design of cities and information technologies from the rise of the great industrial cities of ...
The world of tomorrow will be a world of cities. But will they be smart cities? Read this book for a glimpse into our collective future.
Inside this book you’ll find out: What it really means to create smarter cities How our urban environments are being transformed Big ideas for improving the quality of life for communities Guidance on how to create a smart city strategy ...
This volume provides the most current research on smart cities. Specifically, it focuses on the economic development and sustainability of smart cities and examines how to transform older industrial cities into sustainable smart cities.
This book aims to give a comprehensive overview of all facets of the Smart City transformation and provides concrete tools, checklists, and guiding frameworks.
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