The course is a high level introduction to the constituents of the smart cities’ digital infrastructures, from the network up to the software layers. The proposed survey highlights the technical aspects to be taken into account to create practical services and to develop smarter cities involving citizen participation. In particular, it will impart information on privacy and interoperability aspects.
The course is designed for engineers or project leaders working for a company developing or willing to develop smart city projects involving citizen participation. It also addresses the challenges of professionals of a city government or a public institution who implement a smart city project which involves the deployment of digital technologies in the urban environment.
The course allows you to:
- understand what is a smart city and the digital technologies supporting it
- identify the required skills to design, develop and deploy innovative services toward smarter cities
- picture new digital services for the urban environment while capturing the technologies they rely on
- apprehend the costs and impediments (both technological and societal) that may occur to deploy a new digital service in the city
- investigate public participation in the development of smart cities and the technological and societal challenges that emerge from it.
Course Syllabus
Module 1 : Introduction: a perspective on smarter cities
Module 2 : Network infrastructures for participatory urban systems
Module 3 : Software infrastructures for participatory urban systems
Module 4 : Cloud-based urban data management
Module 5 : Privacy-preserving urban systems
