A collaborative, interdisciplinary initiative for a smart cities innovation network
Natalia Villanueva‐Rosales, Ruey Long Cheu, Ann Quiroz Gates, Norma Rivera, Oscar Mondragón, Sergio Cabrera Carlos Ferregut, Cesar J. Carrasco, Soheil Nazarian, Heidi Taboada, Víctor M. Larios, Liliana Ibeth Barbosa-Santillán, Miroslav Svítek, Ondrej Přibyl, Tomáš Horák, Dana Procházková · 2015
A smart city is characterized by its ability to integrate people, technology and information to create a sustainable and resilient infrastructure that provides high quality services for residents. Transforming a city into a smart city requires collaborative efforts between government, industry, practitioners, residents and researchers. This paper describes how researchers in a recently formed consortium of three universities are developing a smart cities innovation network, with an emphasis on smart mobility, smart buildings, and smart bridges. The consortium is applying a semantic-based approach to address the initial challenge of building an effective interdisciplinary network of university researchers located in different parts of the world, in three cities with different sizes and stages of economic development.