| Title |
Ethics Aware Object Oriented Smart City Architecture |
| ID_Doc |
44938 |
| Authors |
Sholla, S; Naaz, R; Chishti, MA |
| Title |
Ethics Aware Object Oriented Smart City Architecture |
| Year |
2017 |
| Published |
China Communications, 14, 5 |
| DOI |
10.1109/CC.2017.7942323 |
| Abstract |
A novel initiative in providing advanced civic amenities is the idea of smart city driven by the Internet of Things. Owing to a lack of consensus regarding what constitutes a smart city, diverse smart city architectures have been proposed. However, it is observed that adequate consideration is not given to the most important element of a smart city i.e. its people. In our opinion, energy efficient technologically driven city does not necessarily lead to a smart city. Ethics, tradition and law form essential ingredients of complex social palette that cannot be ignored. In this work we propose Ethics-Aware Object-Oriented Smart City Architecture (EOSCA) that has two distinguishing features. Firstly, we propose an object oriented layered architecture where an object represents an abstraction of a real world thing along with requisite security and ethics parameters. Secondly, we propose to integrate socio-cultural and ethical aspects within the smart city architecture by dedicating a separate ethics layer. Such enhancement not only addresses the challenge of privacy and security of a smart city, but also makes it people friendly by incorporating ethics. Such measures would facilitate social acceptance of smart city paradigm and augment its economic value. |
| Author Keywords |
internet of things; smart city; architecture; ethics; law; society |
| Index Keywords |
Index Keywords |
| Document Type |
Other |
| Open Access |
Open Access |
| Source |
Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED) |
| EID |
WOS:000401690300014 |
| WoS Category |
Telecommunications |
| Research Area |
Telecommunications |
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