Smart Cities -- Manuel Avalos

Smart Cities -- Burcu Akinci

Smart Cities -- Kaan Ozbay

Smart Cities -- Lauren Baldwin

Smart Cities -- Mario Berges

Smart Cities -- Rocio Maciel

Smart Cities -- Raul Beltran

Smart Cities -- Joe Chow

Smart Cities -- Jeff X Ban

Smart Cities -- Miroslav Svitek

Smart Cities -- Tomas Horak

Smart Cities -- Ondrej Pribyl

Smart Cities -- Victor Larios

Smart Cities -- Leopoldo Gomez

Description
Making cities “smarter” or transforming them into smart cities is the process of improving economic competitiveness and quality of life by implementing cyberinfrastructure technologies throughout a city. In an effort to launch a "smart city" research program at UTEP, UTEP researchers in civil engineering, electrical engineering, industrial, manufacturing and systems engineering, and computer science have formed a team with each member bringing a unique expertise in this area. The team is a collaboration with Dr. Victor Larios, Director of Smart Cities Innovation Center at Universidad de Guadalajara, Mexico, Dr. Miroslav Svitek, Dean of Faculty of Transportation Sciences at Czech Technical University, Czech Republic, Dr. Kaan Ozbay and Dr. Joe Chow at New York University, and Dr. Burcu Akinci and Dr. Mario Beges at Carnegie Mellon Univeristy.
Aspirations
KEYWORDS
- Data science
- Energy
- Interdisciplinary collaborations
- Internet of things
- Quality of life
- Resiliency
- Sensor network
- smart cities
- Sustainability
- System of Systems
UTEP STRATEGIC AREAS
- Cross-cutting: Cyberinfrastructure and Collaborative
- Energy and Environment
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Akinci, Burcu (View) Carnegie Mellon University Edit |
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Avalos, Manuel (View) IBM Mexico Edit |
Baldwin, Lauren (View) City of El Paso Edit |
Ban, Jeff X (View) University of Washington Edit |
Beltran, Raul (View) University of Guadalajara Edit |
Berges, Mario (View) Carnegie Mellon University Edit |
Chow, Joe (View) New York University Edit |
Gomez, Leopoldo (View) Universidad de Guadalajara Edit |
Guerra, Araceli (View) City of El Paso Edit |
Horak, Tomas (View) Czech Technical University Edit |
Larios, Victor (View) Universidad de Guadalajara Edit |
Maciel, Rocio (View) University of Guadalajara Edit |
Ozbay, Kaan (View) New York University Edit |
Pribyl, Ondrej (View) Czech Technical University Edit |
Svitek, Miroslav (View) Czech Technical University Edit |
Yanez, Mary (View) El Paso Community College Edit |
Related Efforts
In collaboration with the City of El Paso and El Paso Community College, the goal of SSC is to examine the intersection of technology, community engagement, and social science to develop and sustain senior connectedness through the following objectives: 1. Advance knowledge on the systemic and behavioral factors that increase connectedness and bridge the generational digital divide in seniors; 2. Increase social and technological connectedness for seniors through Smart City solutions.
The goal of the proposed IRES is to engage 3 cohorts of diverse, STEM graduate students that can contribute to Smart Cities research areas. The objectives are:
1) Create opportunities for students to deepen their knowledge in the proposed research areas and align it to Smart Cities initiatives, and
2) Foster the development of students’ intra- and inter-personal competencies to effectively participate in collaboration across disciplines, borders, and cultures.
The research priority of C2SMART is “Improving Mobility of People and Goods” with a focus on “Smart Cities.” C2SMART’s mission is to build a solution-oriented research center that uses cities among its consortium members as a decentralized but comprehensive living laboratory. The Center will study a number of challenging transportation problems and field test novel solutions in close collaboration with end-users, city agencies, policy makers, private companies, and entrepreneurs.
We aim at collecting smart phones’ sensors data from drivers in the city and analyze it to explore drivers’ interactions with road topology. Such data can be analyzed in combinations with traffic regulations, crash and traffic violations databases. The ultimate goal of this proposal is to improve drivers’ safety and inform the responsible agency to take actions on traffic control and management.
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Powerpoint slides of presentation at the 100,000 Strong in the Americas Proposal Writing Workshop in Guadalajara on October 25, 2016
This paper (accepted at the IEEE International Smart Cities conference) describes how researchers are developing a smart cities innovation network with an emphasis on smart city mobility, smart buildings, and smart bridges. The consortium is applying a semantic-based approach to address the initial challenge of building an effective interdisciplinary network of university researchers located in different parts of the world, in three cities with different sizes and stages of economic development.
DIALOG SOURCES
I3 Move Communities provide a way to share expertise, resources, and community information to the general public. There are numerous tools available, both open source and proprietary, for engaging in dialog and sharing information and knowledge within a closed group.
Communities have access to IBM SmartCloud, a tool that provides a Cloud Computing solution for sharing files, defining activities, creating blogs, developing wikis, and promoting ideas. To request an account and training on IBM SmartCloud, contact econnect@utep.edu.
This community engages in dialog as follows: