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Toolkits for Smarter Cities: A Brief Assessment

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Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence (IWAAL 2016, AmIHEALTH 2016, UCAmI 2016)

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The literature has offered a number of surveys regarding the concept of smart city, but few assessments of toolkits. This paper presents a short analysis of existing smart city toolkits. The analysis yields some general observations about existing toolkits. The article closes with a brief introduction of the Open City Toolkit, a toolkit currently under development which aims at addressing some of the gaps of existing toolkits.

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Acknowledgments

The authors gratefully acknowledge funding from the European Union through the GEO-C project (H2020-MSCA-ITN-2014, Grant Agreement Number 642332, http://www.geo-c.eu/). Carlos Granell has been funded by the Ramón y Cajal Programme (grant number RYC-2014-16913).

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  1. Institute for Geoinformatics, University of Muenster, Münster, Germany

    Auriol Degbelo

  2. NOVA Information Management School (NOVAIMS), Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisbon, Portugal

    Devanjan Bhattacharya

  3. Institute of New Imaging Technologies, Universitat Jaume I, Castelló, Spain

    Carlos Granell & Sergio Trilles

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  1. University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas, Spain

    Carmelo R. García

  2. Departamento de Estadistica, Universidad La Laguna, La Laguna, Spain

    Pino Caballero-Gil

  3. Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA

    Mike Burmester

  4. University of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Las Palmas, Spain

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Degbelo, A., Bhattacharya, D., Granell, C., Trilles, S. (2016). Toolkits for Smarter Cities: A Brief Assessment. In: García, C., Caballero-Gil, P., Burmester, M., Quesada-Arencibia, A. (eds) Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence. IWAAL AmIHEALTH UCAmI 2016 2016 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10070. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48799-1_47

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