Overview
- Features an exploration of Smart City issues and solutions from a variety of stakeholders in the evolving field
- Presents conversational, nuanced, and forward thinking perspectives on Smart Cities, their implications, limitations, obstacles, and opportunities
- Includes contributions from industry insiders who have direct, relevant experience with their respective subjects as well as positioning and corporate stature
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Public Safety and Policy Issues
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Front Matter
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Science, Technology, and Innovation
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Keywords
- Smart City
- 5G and Smart Cities
- Healthcare and Smart Cities
- Policy Material Science and Smart Cities
- Augmented Reality and Smart Cities
- Containerized Agriculture and Smart Cities
- Net Neutrality and Smart Cities
- Information Security and Smart Cities
- Disaster Management and Smart Cities
- First Responders and Smart Cities
About this book
This book explores categories of applications and driving factors surrounding the Smart City phenomenon. The contributing authors provide perspective on the Smart Cities, covering numerous applications and classes of applications. The book uses a top-down exploration of the driving factors in Smart Cities, by including focal areas including “Smart Healthcare,” “Public Safety & Policy Issues,” and “Science, Technology, & Innovation.” Contributors have direct and substantive experience with important aspects of Smart Cities and discuss issues with technologies & standards, roadblocks to implementation, innovations that create new opportunities, and other factors relevant to emerging Smart City infrastructures.
- Features an exploration of Smart City issues and solutions from a variety of stakeholders in the evolving field
- Presents conversational, nuanced, and forward thinking perspectives on Smart Cities, their implications, limitations, obstacles, and opportunities
- Includes contributions from industry insiders who have direct, relevant experience with their respective subjects as well as positioning and corporate stature
Editors and Affiliations
About the editor
Prof. Stan McClellan is the Director of the Ingram School of Engineering at Texas State University, where he is a Professor of Electrical Engineering and researches advanced communication & networking technologies. Dr. McClellan has held notable positions in the commercial, military/aerospace, and academic industries, including Hewlett Packard, ZNYX Networks, SBE, Inc., General Dynamics, LTV Aerospace, and Rockwell International. He served as chief technologist, chief architect, or lead engineer for several distributed real-time systems, developing technologies including real-time interactive telepathology, highly available systems for telecommunications networks, real-time flight simulators using reconnaissance imagery, and a flight-worthy digital terrain system for the AFTI/F-16 testbed aircraft. He has also served as a technology & business consultant for commercial entities including BellSouth, Motorola, Cisco, 3Com, Newbridge/Alcatel, BNR/Nortel, Network Equipment Technologies (NET), MCI/Worldcom, LSU Medical Center, and others. Most recently, Dr. McClellan was a founder and Chief Technology Officer for a startup company in the Smart Grid space, where he developed a revolutionary approach to Smart Grid systems using advanced signal processing, on-wire communications, and a sophisticated system architecture incorporating endpoint mobility, autonomous device registration, and command/control capability. As the author of numerous peer-reviewed technical publications and US/international patents, Dr. McClellan is an expert in networking and distributed system optimization, particularly for voice/video transport with quality of service constraints (QoS). He has made invited contributions to well-known references including Advances in Computers, The IEEE/CRC Electrical Engineering Handbook, and The Encyclopedias of Electrical & Electronics Engineering.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Smart Cities in Application
Book Subtitle: Healthcare, Policy, and Innovation
Editors: Stan McClellan
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-19396-6
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-19395-9Published: 25 July 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-19398-0Published: 14 August 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-19396-6Published: 15 July 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXII, 171
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations, 42 illustrations in colour
Topics: Communications Engineering, Networks, Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet), Energy Efficiency, Health Informatics, Innovation/Technology Management, Public Policy