Meeting SDGs in Smart City Infrastructures

Meeting SDGs in Smart City Infrastructures: Federation, Interoperability and Discoverability explains the current state-of-the-art practices in the smart city context for digitization and e-governance processes in accordance with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. It discusses pros and cons of the various data standards and federation measures involved in the digital transformation of cities considering the end user as well as implementor’s viewpoint. It utilizes real-world use cases of cities around the world, highlighting their goals and what measures they have adopted. It provides guidelines for achieving long-term service federation, interoperability and discoverability while keeping the UN SDGs in perspective. This book provides the basic insights for technical and strategic viewpoints for data and communication interoperability and federation measures. Later it provides federated scaling solutions to enable service discovery and features in a cross-sector deployment. These are useful for designing digitisation measures by using one or leveraging overlapping features of many introduced solutions. These solutions are provided for specific contexts and use-cases, making understandability of the technical interfaces and their relationship with governance mechanisms easier for a range of audiences working in smart city contexts. This book will help practitioners and researchers in the smart city domain better understand existing and evolving technologies and how to better formulate their processes to provide a sustainable model for urban development. Giving them insight into the feasibility and implications of highly scalable smart city and urban solutions will allow better constructs for urban digital ecosystems, enabling information exchange and interoperability across multiple sectors. It ultimately supports infrastructure goals of ensuring security, privacy, and transparency while enabling future concepts for Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Linked Data and e-governance.