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| Academic Year |
2024/2025 |
| Name |
Dott. - MI (1380) Ingegneria dell'Informazione / Information Technology |
| Programme Year |
1 |
| ID Code |
062768 |
| Course Title |
ADVANCED TOPICS IN SMART CITY TECHNOLOGY |
| Course Type |
MONO-DISCIPLINARY COURSE |
| Credits (CFU / ECTS) |
5.0 |
| Course Description |
"The course unfolds across advanced topics in pervasive sensing and actuation, the design and operation of the IoT, data collection using low-power wireless, processing with ML/AI, as well as storage and aggregation of Big Data in the Cloud. We frame these technologies in their specific application to smart cities, reaching all the way to their integration in a single smart city platform and its interaction with municipalities, regulators, and citizens. The progression from the concrete operation of single digital sensors to the value yield of aggregated data at the scale of entire cities, along with the corresponding technological implications, are central to the course.
Key topics the course will cover are:
* Smart city concepts and deployments, the smart city effect
* Pervasive sensing and actuation, embedded sensing and computing
* Energy harvesting and intermittent computing
* Long-range low-power wireless technologies
* Resource-constrained ML and inference
* Sustainability of smart city technologies
* Edge and mobile computing
* Remote and satellite sensing of urban areas
* The computing continuum
* Smart city technology and citizen involvement
* Cyber intelligence for and within smart cities
* Smart city platforms and their operation
* Interoperability and open data in a city context
* Big Data platforms and data processing in the Cloud
Throughout the discussion of the course?s core topics, we devote specific lectures to dive deeper into specific case studies. These include:
* The Valencia Smart City platform
* The Copenhagen Smart City platform
* The mBed IoT operating system
* The FiWARE smart city platform
* The Planet(tm) archive of satellite imagery
The course is organized with a 25% effort covering the fundamentals of smart cities, the application of ICT smart city applications, key examples of smart city technologies being applied in concrete smart city deployments, and the technological and economic impact of the smart city effect; 50% effort is dedicated to hybrid lectures based on reading assignments prior to the lecture and in-class teaching and discussions driven by the lecturer; the remaining 25% effort is devoted to the organization of a mock-up conference and Oxford-style debates on single papers taken from recent literature. We plan to set up a concrete paper management system (e.g., HotCRP) to let students gain a peak of what happens ?behind the curtains? when submitting a paper to a major conference and accordingly organize a mock-up PC meeting based on the students? reviews of a selected set of papers taken from relevant literature.
The two ad-hoc lectures on the Valencia and Copenhange smart city platforms will be given online by researchers at UPV and DTU, respectively, based on a preliminary commitment. We also plan for at least one visit to an external company or facility. We obtained a tentative commitment from EuroMilano S.p.A. to visit the urban regeneration area in UpTown/Cascina Merlata and from Generali JenIoT to visit their R&D center in Pero. The preliminary commitments mentioned here are based on existing collaborations with the relevant researchers and professionals within the EU-funded project Citcom.AI." |
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CFU
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ING-INF/05
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INFORMATION PROCESSING SYSTEMS
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5.0
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