Exploiting the SEM Framework for Modeling Smart Cities

Smart Cities are smart environments extending over a wide geographical area having the aim of improving the quality of life of the citizens and optimizing the management of city resources. Despite the paramount interest towards these systems, there is a lack of approaches for their design. The Smart Environment Metamodel (SEM) is a framework which is well suited for the development of smart environments in general, and Smart Cities in particular. SEM allows the design of such systems by offering two different perspective focusing on functional and data requirements. This paper aims at showing the effectiveness of SEM by exploiting the framework for the design of a case study referring to a realized Smart City application developed in the city of Cosenza, Italy.

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