An Smart City Plataform based on Internet of Things

• Grant number: 12/10157-1
• Support Opportunities: Regular Research Grants
• Start date: October 01, 2012
• End date: September 30, 2014
• Field of knowledge: Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Computer Science - Computer Systems
• Principal Investigator: Alexandre Alvaro
• Grantee: Alexandre Alvaro
• Host Institution: Centro de Ciências e Tecnologias para a Sustentabilidade (CCTS). Universidade Federal de São Carlos (UFSCAR). Sorocaba , SP, Brazil
• City of the host institution: Sorocaba
• Associated researchers: Fabio Luciano Verdi ; Kiev Santos da Gama ; Luciana Aparecida Martinez Zaina ; Vinicius Cardoso Garcia

Abstract

Nowadays ICT (Information and Communication Technology) are applied to solve the main common issues that cities all over the world are dealing with, such as transportation, public safety, energy, healthcare, education, water, catastrophe, and so on. The junction with the technology infrastructure and services of a city makes it gradually a Smart City. These emerging technologies, the Internet and an array of sensors that transforms objects of day-to-day into smart objects, enabling the Internet of Things to assist in the process that cities becoming more intelligent. Thought the Internet of Things, the smart cities are becoming more viable. So, this project will investigate, propose, develop and validate a platform to assist in this direction. (AU)