A Road Map to the Cyber-Human Smart City

Throughout this book we have presented our vision of future developments of the Smart City concept based on novel advances in the areas of Cloud Computing, Internet Of Things and Social Computing. The new Cyber-Human Smart City offers the possibility to blend these technologies in a single application environment and manage them in a coordinated manner through a unified platform. This synergy allows more efficient (“smarter”) management of the city’s infrastructural resources and human capital, including citizens’ privately owned property (sensors, actuators, computing/storage units, and any IoT-enabled object offered for shared use) and their own physical and cognitive abilities. Even more importantly, this synergy offers novel possibilities to capitalize on personal capabilities and belongings, to learn about and take an active part in the city’s decision-making and to engage with fellow citizens in various collective activities in both virtual and physical domains. In this final chapter we explore the benefits of horizontal integration of the described technologies and present a research road map identifying the next important steps in the development of Cyber-Human Smart Cities.