This document discusses smart cities and how they can benefit humanity. It provides examples of smart city technologies like standby street lighting that turns on when people walk by and real-time parking availability information. The document also discusses challenges like declining populations in Japan and the need for large amounts of data collection. It focuses on how internet of things technologies are important for smart cities and questions how research can help configure networks and ensure data and system security for the future.

1. Smart Cities and Our Life
m5221122 Naoki Fukasawa

2. What is a Smart City?
A smart city is an urban area that uses different type of electronic data
collection sensors to supply information which is used to manage
assets and resources efficiently.
(by Wikipedia)
Examples in world: New York, Singapore, Columbus(OHIO), etc.
Examples in Japan: Yokohama(Kanagawa), Kashiwa(Chiba), Aizu
(Fukushima)

3. What is a Smart City?
→Not all urban areas have similar issues to be solved
→Concept: Use information and communication technology(ICT) and
the Internet of Things(IoT)
Example in Aizu: Aizuwakamatsu city, UoA, Accenture, Inc.
collaborate→Fukushima Innovation Center established in Aizu by
Accenture

4. How will the topic contribute to humanity?
Some concretely examples that can Image
→Still dark in the morning, when person walking a street, standby
lighting switches on when he walks by which means get more brighter
when person walk otherwise power saving.
→While driving and looking for a parking spot, find one in real time so
that driver won’t drive around for very long.

5. How will the topic contribute to humanity?
→Garbage containers are mostly full in specific time. Sometimes, it
might not be. If waste collection companies know how full in real time,
they could move around efficiently.
→Every month, we pay electricity, gas, water bill. We get an invoice
from supplier and may get unhappy because of its cost. If consumption
figures are available in real time, we may avoid too much to use.

6. Video Clip
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br5aJa6MkBc

7. Video Clip
Why we want to bulid Smart Cities?
→To be sustainable, making cities more alive.
→To live fun, smart, wisely.

8. Question
Why is the topic of Smart Cities interesting for the general public?

9. Discussion
→This is Not Q&A
My opinion
How could this topic is not be interesting?
This should be the way how information technologies are used and
fundamentals of idea to develop technologies.

10. Smart Cities is interesting for computer
science/engineering students
Today, what are they studying?
For computer science students
→AI, Big-data, Statistical analysis, etc.
For computer engineering students
→Network, Application, IoT, etc.

11. Smart Cities is interesting for computer
science/engineering students
The growth of computer technologies are incredible.
Things may be difficult to understand and may retire of doing it.
Motivation
→Revolutionary idea inherited next 100 year or half a century.

12. Keyword of Smart Cities: IoT
Internet of Things(IoT)
→Not only things are connected to Internet but also things are
connected like an Internet
Example: Roomba,
LED light bulb speaker by SONY, etc.

13. Keyword of Smart Cities: IoT
There will be a limit to managing a huge amount of data.
→Not manage by people but how about by things each other?
Example: You are driving a car and looking for a parking. A navigation
suggest to go to Parking A, but it gets full before you arrive. What will
be the best process from now on?
→If Parking A could “ask” to other parking that has free space and
“find” for a driver, it sounds not bad.

14. Future Work
Design and maintenance ICT base
→How to configure network systems and platforms?
→Who are going to manage the data?
→How to provide data?
→Scope and role sharing

15. Future Work
Things can be run automatically so we should care about safety a lot.
→Put emphasis on the system security.
Providing of proper data to client.
→Input information(keyword) is enough?

16. Challenging and Difficult
Think in Japan
→Japan is facing declining birthrate and aging population
What I think we need for Smart Cities
→It is data. Need to collect huge amount of data, but population is
declining.

17. Challenging and Difficult
Today, the population of Japan is 127 million people.
In future, 50 years later, the population of Japan estimated to be 88
million people.
→Need to think
how to improve this issue too.

18. How I used CMap
List of questions
Q1. Why is the topic of SMART CITIES interesting for the general public?
Q2. Why is the topic of SMART CITIES interesting for computer science/engineering
students? Show an example of a SMART CITY IOT technology.
Q3. How is the Internet of Things the most important feature of SMART CITIES?
Q4. How will the topic contribute to humanity in general?
Q5. Explain current research on the topic.
Q6. Demonstrate a short YouTube movie explaining the ongoing research and
accomplishments on the topic.
Q7. Why is the research on the issue so challenging and difficult?
Q8. What research needs to be done in the future on SMART CITIES?
Q9. Show how you have used the IHMC Concept Mapping software to plan the layout of
the presentation.

19. How I used CMap
Try to design presentation logically.
→Answering given questions Q1~Q9 in order was nonsense to me.
What I thought I should do in presentation first
→Need to give an idea what the topic or the concept of presentation.
→May be Q5 can use as introduction.
How I sort the question:
Q5→Q4→Q6→Q1→Q2→Q3→Q8→Q7→Q9

20. Conclusion
What I have learned through this presentation assignment
1. What is a Smart City
→Concept: Use information and communication technology(ICT) and
the Internet of Things(IoT)
2. Reconfirmed designing of presentation
→Logical Speaking is easier to make audiences understanding.
3. The way of thinking that live in Aizu has changed
→I am in an interesting place although it depending on my action.

21. Reference
https://www.city.aizuwakamatsu.fukushima.jp/docs/2013101500018/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Br5aJa6MkBc
https://uhuru.co.jp/mclab/marketing/smartcity-aizu/
https://sustainablejapan.jp/2017/05/08/%E3%82%B9%E3%83%9E%E3
%83%BC%E3%83%88%E3%82%B7%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3/26706
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smart_city#Characteristics
http://www.meti.go.jp/committee/sankoushin/shin_sangyoukouzou/p
df/012_05_00.pdf
http://www.soumu.go.jp/main_content/000447790.pdf