TY - JOUR

T1 - Smart cities as hubs

T2 - Connect, collect and control city flows

AU - Anthopoulos, Leonidas G.

AU - Pourzolfaghar, Zohreh

AU - Lemmer, Kristina

AU - Siebenlist, Tobias

AU - Niehaves, Bjoern

AU - Nikolaou, Ioannis

N1 - The research project was supported by the Hellenic Foundation for Research and Innovation (H.F.R.I.) under the “2nd Call for H.F.R.I. Research Projects to support Faculty Members & Researchers” (Project Number:2652).

PY - 2022/6/1

Y1 - 2022/6/1

N2 - Regardless the Smart City (SC) broad scope, which ranges from a service-oriented ecosystem with the use of almost all the emerging technologies to a resilient urban environment, practice shows that the SC is mostly capitalized for utility upgrades, urban renovation, and real-time city monitoring. Moreover, recent city implementations register attempts to utilize technology for controlling the entire city flows. The aim of this communication paper is to discuss the SC hubness and more specifically the fact that the SC can become a “hub” that collects, processes, and transmits data; brings together people to co-design and evolve; and controls service, material and people flows in all city types. As a result, this paper defines the role, the uses and the architecture of this “SC-as-a-Hub” operation labeled “SCHub”, which can standardize and control all the city flows.

AB - Regardless the Smart City (SC) broad scope, which ranges from a service-oriented ecosystem with the use of almost all the emerging technologies to a resilient urban environment, practice shows that the SC is mostly capitalized for utility upgrades, urban renovation, and real-time city monitoring. Moreover, recent city implementations register attempts to utilize technology for controlling the entire city flows. The aim of this communication paper is to discuss the SC hubness and more specifically the fact that the SC can become a “hub” that collects, processes, and transmits data; brings together people to co-design and evolve; and controls service, material and people flows in all city types. As a result, this paper defines the role, the uses and the architecture of this “SC-as-a-Hub” operation labeled “SCHub”, which can standardize and control all the city flows.

KW - Architectures

KW - Data

KW - Hub

KW - IoT

KW - Platforms

KW - Smart city

KW - Smart services

KW - Informatics

KW - Business informatics

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85126565677&partnerID=8YFLogxK

UR - https://www.mendeley.com/catalogue/25c2416a-5cbd-3e33-9542-290e29a604ae/

U2 - 10.1016/j.cities.2022.103660

DO - 10.1016/j.cities.2022.103660

M3 - Journal articles

AN - SCOPUS:85126565677

VL - 125

JO - Cities

JF - Cities

SN - 0264-2751

M1 - 103660

ER -