Ontology-based Model of a Smart City
O.V. Smirnova, Tatiana Popovich · REAL CORP Repository (University of Southampton) · 2019
The city environment is a complex, dynamic and distributed system. Effective management of the city environment presents a major challenge for a smart city. Effective city management must seek to improve urban infrastructure while minimising the costs, to stimulate innovations in different industries and to improve the quality of life for citizens. To create an adequate model of city’s environment structure it is necessary to analyse all the city’s components that influence the city environment management and to define data flows between these components. The most effective tool for representation of knowledge about the city environment, its components and relationships between them is the organisation of information in the form of an ontology-based model. In this paper we would like to introduce a novel ontology-based model for the smart city that includesdefinitions of entities and their properties, classes and their attributes and relationships between them. Such ontology enables us to use a knowledge base for the smart city as a basis of the decision-making support system for smart city management.