A Spatial Information Framework for Smart Cities?
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1. A Spatial Information Framework for Smart Cities?
Today, urban population accounts for 54 percent of the total global population World Health Organization 2014 with a trend to more urbanization. Effective integration of
human, physical, and digital systems operating in the built environment holds the promise of improving the quality of life of urban residents, improving the governance of cities and
making cities prosperous, inclusive, sustainable and resilient. Location is a primary method for organizing Smart City services. Communicating anything about location
requires standards. This paper addresses the open information technology standards framework that is critical to achieving the benefits of spatial communication for Smart
Cities.
Figure 1. A Smart City uses location as an organizing principal to benefit residents, visitors, and businesses of all types. Graphic from Steve Liang, University of Calgary
This White Paper provides a draft spatial information framework for Smart Cities. The document is structured using an architectural approach for defining information systems
organized as a set of viewpoints. The set of viewpoints used here are based on ISOIEC 10746, Information Technology — Open Distributed Processing — Reference Model.
Section 2 of the report provides an Enterprise Viewpoint, including a definition of a Smart City, the Indicators for assessing the value of deploying the technology,
and an overall set of components for the information system of a Smart City. Section 3 provides an Information Viewpoint, outlining the spatial information
and data that is needed in a Smart City. Section 4 outlines the computational Services Viewpoint including interfaces and
workflows pertinent to a achieve interoperability using a service oriented architecture for a Smart City.
Section 5 provides a Deployment Viewpoint, identifying approaches for deploying the Spatial Information Framework in cities.
An Annex provides a summary of standardization activities regarding Smart Cities. The architecture in the main body of the white paper aims to build on and contribute back to
the activities of those SDOs.
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Windspeed: 11 kmh CO: 0.23 ppm
NO: 0.22 ppm Temperature: 29 C
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CO: 0.23 ppm NO: 0.22 ppm
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