Smart Cities Merge IoT, Cloud
October 8, 2014
Grazed from EETimes. Author: Levent Gurgen.
The ClouT project is a joint Europe-Japan collaboration to make cities smarter, helping them face emerging challenges in efficient energy management, safety and security, and economic growth and development. The project is creating a layer of services to bridge cloud computing and the Internet of Things to establish a communications and collaboration platform that exploits all possible information sources.
ClouT — which stands for cloud of things — is providing infrastructure, services, tools that will be used by cities, their citizens, service developers, and application integrators to create, deploy, and manage applications that take advantage of IoT and cloud capabilities. In addition, the program will help end-users create and share their own cloud services…
Launched in July 2013, the project already has built a reference architecture and developed applications for it that will be deployed and validated in field trials in four pilot cities. For example, people in the city of Santander in Spain have created something they call Participatory Citizen. It encourages citizens to use their mobile phones to report to city hall problems such as accidents. Officials notify the citizens when issues are resolved…
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