IDEAL-CITIES: A Trustworthy and Sustainable Framework for Circular Smart Cities
This addresses sustainability challenges for smart cities, but it is incremental as it builds on existing technological developments.
The paper tackles the problem of sustainability in cities by introducing IDEAL-CITIES, a framework for cyber-physical systems to enable a data-driven Circular Economy model, resulting in high resource utilization through crowdsourcing and real-time planning.
Reflecting upon the sustainability challenges cities will be facing in the near future and the recent technological developments allowing cities to become "smart", we introduce IDEAL-CITIES; a framework aiming to provide an architecture for cyber-physical systems to deliver a data-driven Circular Economy model in a city context. In the IDEAL-CITIES ecosystem, the city's finite resources as well as citizens will form the pool of intelligent assets in order to contribute to high utilization through crowdsourcing and real-time decision making and planning. We describe two use cases as a vehicle to demonstrate how a smart city can serve the Circular Economy paradigm.