Description:
Meeting SDGs in Smart City Infrastructures: Federation, Interoperability, and Discoverability explores the current state-of-the-art practices in smart city digitization and governance processes, aligning with the UN Sustainable Development Goals. It discusses the pros and cons of various methods, standards, and initiatives involved in the digital transformation of cities from policy-maker, implementer, and end-user perspectives. Utilizing real-world use cases from cities worldwide, the book highlights their goals, adopted measures, and their outcomes. It provides guidelines for achieving long-term service federation, interoperability, and discoverability while keeping the UN SDGs in perspective.
This resource is invaluable for practitioners and researchers in the smart city domain and will help them better understand existing and evolving technologies and formulate their processes to provide sustainable models for urban development.
Brief description:
Dr. Manas Pradhan is a scientist and technology expert in the domain of urbanisation and digital transformation. He currently leads the technology division of DKSR GmbH which is involved in Smart City projects in Europe and the USA. He earlier represented Germany in the NATO for civil-military cooperation for security and resilience for future urbanisation initiatives involving 30 nations. He received his bachelor's degree in computer science and engineering from ITER Bhubaneswar, India and master's degree in informatics from RWTH Aachen University, Germany. His Doctoral degree concluded from Department of Technology Systems, University of Oslo, Norway. He has been the author of many papers and book chapters for international publications in the direction of federation, interoperability, IoT, integration of legacy and innovative hardware, data and its use, Smart Cities and system architectures. As a standardisation expert, he also is involved in IEEE and German National Standardisation activities.