An ontological ubiquitous city information platform provided with Cyber-Physical-Social-Systems

Aim of the paper is to illustrate the methodology used to implement an ubiquitous city platform called Wi-City-Plus provided with mobile and centralized Decision Support Systems (DSSs) taking advantage of all the data of city interest, including social data, and those sensed by networked ambient Cyber-Physical-Systems (CPSs). The paper proposes to model such data by a suitable RDF ontology specifically designed to support the main user scenarios in smart cities and to implement both the technical and the service interoperability envisaged by the CPS ideal model. This ontology is obtained by reusing existing ontologies and allows the DSSs to access by SPARQL queries all the relevant data independent of the proprietary technology of the CPSs and of the DBMS adopted by the data owners. Examples derived from the pilot version of the proposed platform allows us to point out advantages and perspectives of our approach.

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