Smart Cities: IoT Technologies, Big Data Solutions, Cloud Platforms, and Cybersecurity Techniques

This book discusses the basic principles of sustainable development in a smart city ecosystem to better serve the life of citizens. It examines smart city systems driven by emerging IoT-powered technologies and the other dependent platforms.

Smart Cities: AI, IoT Technologies, Big Data Solutions, cloud platforms, and cybersecurity techniques discusses the design and implementation of the core components of the Smart City ecosystem. The editors discuss the effective management and development of smart city infrastructures, starting with planning and integrating complex models and diverse frameworks into an ecosystem. Specifically the chapters examines the core infrastructure elements including activities of the public and private services as well as innovative ICT solutions, Computer Vision, IoT technologies, Data tools, Cloud services, AR/VR technologies, Cybersecurity techniques, Treatment solution of the environmental water pollution, and other intelligent devices for supporting sustainable living in the smart environment.

The chapters also discuss machine vision models and implementation as well as real-time robotic applications. Upon reading the book users will be able handle the challenges and improvements of security for smart systems, and will have the know-how to analysis and visualize data using big data tools and visualization applications. The book will provide the technologies, solutions as well as designs about the application design of the smart cities with advanced tools and techniques to students, researchers, engineers and academics.

本書討論了在智慧城市生態系統中實現可持續發展的基本原則，以更好地服務市民的生活。它探討了由新興物聯網技術驅動的智慧城市系統以及其他相關平台。

《智慧城市：人工智慧、物聯網技術、大數據解決方案、雲平台和網絡安全技術》討論了智慧城市生態系統的核心組件的設計和實施。編者們討論了智慧城市基礎設施的有效管理和發展，從規劃和整合複雜模型和多樣框架入手，建立一個生態系統。具體而言，本書的章節探討了包括公共和私營服務活動在內的核心基礎設施元素，以及創新的信息通信技術解決方案、計算機視覺、物聯網技術、數據工具、雲服務、擴增/虛擬現實技術、網絡安全技術、環境水污染處理解決方案和其他智能設備，以支持智慧環境中的可持續生活。

本書還討論了機器視覺模型和實施，以及實時機器人應用。通過閱讀本書，讀者將能夠應對智慧系統安全方面的挑戰和改進，並具備使用大數據工具和可視化應用程序進行數據分析和可視化的能力。本書將向學生、研究人員、工程師和學者提供有關智慧城市應用設計的技術、解決方案和設計。

Dr. Alex Khang is a Professor in Information Technology (IT), AI and data scientist, software industry expert, and the chief of technology officer (AI and Data Science Research Center) at the Global Research Institute of Technology and Engineering, North Carolina, United States. He has over 28 years of teaching and research experience in information technology at the Universities of Science and Technology in Vietnam, India, and USA. He has published 52 authored books (in computer science 2000-2010), 2 authored books (software development), and 20 book chapters. He has published 10 edited books, and 11 edited books (calling for book chapters) in the fields of AI ecosystem (AI, ML, DL, IoT, Robotics, Data science, Big data, and Quantum computing), smart city ecosystem, healthcare ecosystem, Fintech technology, and blockchain technology (since 2020). He has over 28 years of working experience as a software product manager, data engineer, AI engineer, cloud computing architect, solution architect, software architect, database expert in the foreign corporations of Germany, Sweden, the United States, Singapore, and multinationals (former CEO, former CTO, former Engineering Director, Product Manager, and Senior Software Production Consultant).

Dr. Shashi Kant Gupta is a researcher and director, independent academic scholar at research department, CREP, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. He has completed his Ph.D. in CSE from Integral University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India, and worked as assistant professor in the department of computer science and engineering, PSIT, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh, and India. He has published more than 17 Indian patents, one patent is under grant approval. He has already granted some Germany patents as well. He has more than 28 years of teaching experience and 2 years of industrial experience. He has been publishing 10 book chapters for Taylor and Francis Group - CRC Press, and 04 edited books (calling for book chapters) in the fields of AI Ecosystem (AI, Robotics, data science, Big Data, and IoT), smart city ecosystem, healthcare ecosystem, and Blockchain technology. He has published many research papers in reputed international journals with SCOPUS and ESCI indexed journals and published many papers in national and international conferences and as well as in Seminars. He is currently founder and CEO of CREP, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India. He is a member of Spectrum IEEE & Potentials Magazine IEEE since 2019 and many more international organization for research activities. He has published many research papers in reputed international journals with SCOPUS and ESCI indexed journals and published many papers in national and international conferences and in seminars. He has organized various faculty development programs, seminars, workshops, and short-term courses at University level. His main research work focuses on performance enhancement through cloud computing, Big data analytics, IoT and computational intelligence-based education. He is currently working as a reviewer in various international journals like BJIT and many more. He has published many Indian and Australian patents in the field of information technology, computer science, and management.

Dr. Sita Rani is a Faculty of Computer Science and Engineering at Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Ludhiana. Previously, she has served as a Professor - Computer Science & Engineering and Deputy Dean (Research) at Gulzar Group of Institutions, Khanna (Punjab). She has completed her B.Tech and M.Tech degrees in the faculty of Computer Science and Engineering from Guru Nanak Dev Engineering College, Ludhiana. She obtained her Ph.D. in Computer Science and Engineering from I.K. Gujral Punjab Technical University, Kapurthala, Punjab. At present, she is also Postdoctoral Fellow at Data Mining and Virtualization Laboratory, South Ural State University, Russia. She has more than 19 years of teaching experience. She is an active member of IEEE, ISTE, and IAEngg. She is the receiver of ISTE Section Best Teacher Award and International Young Scientist Award. She has contributed to the various research activities while publishing articles in the renowned SCI journals and conference proceedings. She has published five international and one Indian patents. She has delivered many expert talks in A.I.C.T.E. sponsored Faculty Development Programs and organized many International Conferences during her 19 years of teaching experience. She is a member of Editorial Board of four international journals of repute. Her research interest includes Parallel and Distributed Computing, Machine Learning, and Internet of Things (IoT).

Dr. Dimitrios A. Karras, Associate Professor, he received Diploma and M.Sc. Degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens (NTUA), Greece in 1985 and the Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering, NTUA, Greece in 1995, with honors. During 1990-2004, he collaborated as visiting professor and researcher with several universities and research institutes in Greece and Heidelberg, Germany (DKFZ). During 2004-2018, he has been with the Sterea Hellas Institute of Technology, Automation Dept., Greece as assoc. prof. in Digital Systems and Signal Processing, as well as visiting prof. of Hellenic Open University, Dept. Informatics in Communication Systems (2002-2010). Since 1/2019, she has remained an Associate Prof. in Digital and Intelligent Systems & Signal Processing, in National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, School of Science, Dept. General (dakarras@uoa.gr) as well as adjunct Assoc. Prof. Dr. with the School of Basic Sciences, BIHER University, Chennai, India, as well as with the GLA university, Mathura, India and EPOKA & CIT universities, Computer Engineering Dept., Tirana. He has published more than 80 research refereed journal papers in intelligent and distributed/multi-agent systems, pattern recognition, and image/signal processing and neural networks as well as in bioinformatics and more than 185 research papers in international refereed scientific conferences. His research interests span the fields of intelligent and distributed systems, multi-agent systems, pattern recognition and computational intelligence, image and signal processing/systems, biomedical systems, communications and networking, as well as security and sustainability applications. He has served as program committee member as well as program/general chair at several international workshops and conferences in signal, image, communication, and automation systems. He is, also, former editor in chief (2008-2016) of the International Journal in Signal and Imaging Systems Engineering (IJSISE), Academic editor in the Applied Computational Intelligence and Soft Computing, TWSJ, ISRN Communications and the Applied Mathematics Hindawi journals, as well as associate editor in various scientific journals, including CAAI, IET, Bentham Science Recent Patents in Engineering Section Editor, Sustainable Solutions and Society journal (Editorial Team Sustainable Solutions and Society (spast.org)), IJANA and Academic Publishing, Information System and Smart City. He has been cited in more than 2500 research papers, his H/G-indices are 21/51 (Google Scholar) and his Erdos number is 5. His RG score is 31.94 in the highest 10% of scientific researchers. Apart from his scientific research, Assoc. Prof. Dr. D.A. Karras is involved in humanitarian projects as Sustainability, Human Rights and Peace passionate being Director of Research and Documentation at AdiAfrica NGO.

Dr. Alex Khang是北卡羅來納州全球科技與工程研究所的資訊科技(IT)、人工智慧和數據科學家，軟體行業專家，以及首席技術官(AI和數據科學研究中心)。他在越南、印度和美國的科技大學擁有超過28年的資訊科技教學和研究經驗。他出版了52本著作(2000-2010年的計算機科學)，2本著作(軟體開發)和20篇書籍章節。他在AI生態系統(AI、機器學習、深度學習、物聯網、機器人學、數據科學、大數據和量子計算)、智慧城市生態系統、醫療生態系統、金融科技和區塊鏈技術等領域出版了10本編輯著作和11本編輯著作(徵求書籍章節)。他在德國、瑞典、美國、新加坡和跨國公司(前任首席執行官、前任首席技術官、前任工程總監、產品經理和高級軟體生產顧問)擁有超過28年的軟體產品經理、數據工程師、人工智慧工程師、雲計算架構師、解決方案架構師、軟體架構師和數據庫專家的工作經驗。

Dr. Shashi Kant Gupta是印度北方邦盧克瑙市CREP研究部門的研究員和主任，獨立學術學者。他在印度北方邦盧克瑙市的Integral大學獲得了計算機科學與工程的博士學位，並在印度北方邦坎普爾市的PSIT大學擔任助理教授。他已經申請了超過17項印度專利，其中一項專利正在審批中。他還獲得了一些德國專利。他擁有超過28年的教學經驗和2年的工業經驗。他已經為Taylor and Francis Group - CRC Press出版了10篇書籍章節，並在AI生態系統(AI、機器人學、數據科學、大數據和物聯網)、智慧城市生態系統、醫療生態系統和區塊鏈技術等領域出版了4本編輯著作(徵求書籍章節)。他在知名國際期刊和國際會議上發表了許多研究論文，並在研討會上發表了許多論文。他目前是印度盧克瑙市CREP的創始人兼首席執行官。他是IEEE Spectrum和IEEE Potentials Magazine的會員，也是許多國際研究組織的成員。他在各種國際期刊上擔任審稿人，如BJIT等。他在資訊科技、計算機科學和管理領域發表了許多印度和澳大利亞專利。

Dr. Sita Rani是盧迪亞納的古魯納克德工程學院的計算機科學與工程教師。她曾在旁遮普邦的Gulzar Group of Institutions擔任計算機科學與工程教授和副院長(研究)。她在盧迪亞納的古魯納克德工程學院獲得了計算機科學與工程的學士和碩士學位。她在旁遮普邦的I.K. Gujral旁遮普技術大學獲得了計算機科學與工程的博士學位。目前，她還是俄羅斯南烏拉爾州立大學數據挖掘和虛擬化實驗室的博士後研究員。她擁有超過19年的教學經驗。她的主要研究工作集中在通過雲計算、大數據分析、物聯網和計算智能教育提升性能。她目前在各種國際期刊上擔任審稿人，如BJIT等。她在資訊科技、計算機科學和管理領域發表了許多印度和澳大利亞專利。