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Title IoT Architecture for a Sustainable Tourism Application in a Smart City Environment
ID_Doc 41138
Authors Nitti, M; Pilloni, V; Giusto, D; Popescu, V
Title IoT Architecture for a Sustainable Tourism Application in a Smart City Environment
Year 2017
Published
DOI 10.1155/2017/9201640
Abstract In the past few years, the Smart Cities concept has become one of the main driving forces for the urban transition towards a low carbon environment, sustainable economy, and mobility. Tourism, as one of the fastest growing industries, is also an important generator of carbon emissions; therefore, the recently emerging sustainable tourism concept is envisioned as an important part of the Smart Cities paradigm. Within this context, the Internet-of-Things (IoT) concept is the key technological point for the development of smart urban environments through the use of aggregated data, integrated in a single decisional platform. This paper performs the first analysis on the feasibility of the use of an IoT approach and proposes a specific architecture for a sustainable tourism application. The architecture is tailored for the optimisation of the movement of cruise ship tourists in the city of Cagliari (Italy), by taking into consideration factors such as transport information and queue waiting times. A first set of simulations is performed using 67-point of interest, real transportation data, and an optimisation algorithm.
Author Keywords
Index Keywords Index Keywords
Document Type Other
Open Access Open Access
Source Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED)
EID WOS:000394872900001
WoS Category Computer Science, Information Systems; Telecommunications
Research Area Computer Science; Telecommunications
PDF http://downloads.hindawi.com/journals/misy/2017/9201640.pdf
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