Towards a Supportive City with Smart Urban Objects in the Internet of Things: The Case of Adaptive Park Bench and Adaptive Light

Abstract

IoT technology is a key driver for building smart city infrastructure. The potentials for urban management problems requiring process control and allocation mechanisms has long been acknowledged. However, up to now the potentials of equipping urban objects with sensors, information processing capability, and actuators to enable adaptation to pedestrians' individual needs have not yet been exploited. The objective of our research is to design smart urban objects that enhance usability and safety of the urban space for pedestrians. We report on our conceptual design for an IoT platform that connects the novel smart urban object adaptive park bench with an adaptive light system to actively support pedestrians in the urban environment, in particular senior citizens with handicaps.

Smart Urban Design Space

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“…In the era of the inevitable digitalization and in particular the Internet of Things (IoT), the challenge is to what extent digitalization can improve daily life for these ageing population. Accordingly, the concept of providing the urban space with so-called smart urban objects (SUOs) [2] is being pursued to increase the participation of elderly people by digitalization. These SUOs are elements of the urban environment, e.g.…”

“…The desired goal is to increase the feeling of security on urban environment by personalization of these objects. Some of these SUOs are described in detail in [2], [3], [4] , [5] and [6]. The focus of this research is the intersection between the behavior of elderly people, currently referred to as Ambient Assisted Living (AAL), and Smart City.…”

Eficiency of REST and gRPC Realizing Communication Tasks in Microservice-Based Ecosystems

“…In such architecture, performance of the implemented system is directly influenced by the choice of communication mechanisms between individual microservices. Note that, today, microservices have become more and more popular, and find their way to large-scale heterogeneous deployments, such as in the Internet of Things (IoT), Industry 4.0 [3][4][5][6][7] including cyber-physical systems [8][9]. Dedicated methodologies have also been developed for this class of solutions [10].…”