@proceedings {535, title = {Building a Smart City Service Platform in Messina with the $\#$SmartME Project}, journal = {The 32nd IEEE International Conference on Advanced Information Networking and Applications (IEEE AINA-2018)}, year = {2018}, month = {05/2018}, address = {Pedagogical University of Cracow, Poland}, abstract = {

Some words mark an era, and "Smart City" is definitely one of these. A Smart City is an urban area where the Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are employed to improve citizens{\textquoteright} Quality of Life (QoL) in areas such as: mobility, urban surveillance, and energy management. Throughout this paper, we present the $\#$SmartME project, which aims to create an infrastructure and an ecosystem of "smart" services by exploiting existing devices, sensors, and actuators distributed in the city of Messina. We also present the Stack4Things framework, which is the management core of the $\#$SmartME project.

}, keywords = {$\#$SmartME, Arduino, Blockchain, cloud computing, IoT, OpenData, OpenStack, Smart city, Stack4Things}, author = {Dario Bruneo and Sebastiano Chillari and Salvatore Distefano and Maurizio Giacobbe and Antonino Longo Minnolo and Francesco Longo and Giovanni Merlino and Davide Mulfari and Alfonso Panarello and Giuseppe Patan{\`e} and Antonio Puliafito and Carlo Puliafito and Marco Scarpa and Nachiket Tapas and Giancarlo Visalli} } @proceedings {547, title = {Enabling Sustainable Smart Environments Using Fog Computing}, journal = {The 1st International Conference on Electronics, Control, Optimization and Computer Science (ICECOCS{\textquoteright}18)}, year = {2018}, month = {12/2018}, publisher = {IEEE}, address = {Kenitra - Morocco}, abstract = {

The upward trend in using both Cloud computing and Internet of Things (IoT) is changing the way of conceiving information and communication systems. We can talk about IoT Cloud\ to indicate a distributed complex system which is able to provide IoT-as-a-Service (IoTaaS). At the edge of the system, multisensors electronic devices make smart\ the {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}things{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright} they control also enabling the interconnection with a remote Cloud infrastructure, platform, or software through the Internet.

In such scenario, achieving energy-aware IoTaaS is a challenge which needs appropriate choices in all the environmental, economic and ethical aspects of sustainability. The use of Fog computing\ can help to discover new business opportunities taking into account the above {\textquoteleft}{\textquoteleft}green{\textquoteright}{\textquoteright} goal.

In this paper, we discuss the advantages from using Fog computing to offer energy-aware IoTaaS in sustainable smart environments.

Moreover, we present an experimental use case proving the feasibility of our proposal.

}, keywords = {Energy-aware, Fog computing, IoT, IoTaaS, smart buildings, Smart Environment, sustainability.}, author = {Sarah Zanafi and Maurizio Giacobbe and Marco Scarpa and Antonio Puliafito and Noura Aknin} } @proceedings {480, title = {The Big Bucket: An IoT Cloud Solution For Smart Waste Management in Smart Cities}, journal = {The 4th International Workshop on CLoud for IoT (CLIoT 2016)}, volume = {Advances in Service-Oriented and Cloud Computing}, year = {2016}, month = {01/2018}, pages = {43-58}, publisher = {Springer International Publishing}, address = {Vienna, Austria}, abstract = {

Research and industries are devoting a great effort in getting cities and communities smarter, thus to improve citizens{\textquoteright} Quality of Life (QoL) and paying serious attention to e-government and e-inclusion processes.\ 
This is a strategic but also very complex objective that involves both governance and citizens to address many challenges.\ 
Following this line, this paper discusses the necessity for new smart waste management systems and presents a comprehensive state of the art on the use of the Internet of Things (IoT) for smart waste recycling.\ 
In particular, we present and argue the Big Bucket IoT Cloud environment, where smart dumpsters are equipped with low-cost sensors and open source easy-to-use hardware and software. Its architectural model is discussed and compared with other existing solutions in the future perspective.

}, keywords = {cloud computing, E-government, E-inclusion, IoT, Quality of Life, Recycling Systems, smart cities, Smart Communities, Smart Waste Management}, issn = {978-3-319-72125-5}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-72125-5_4}, author = {Maurizio Giacobbe and Carlo Puliafito and Marco Scarpa} } @booklet {474, title = {Smart Waste and Recycling Systems: The Big Bucket Solution}, journal = {CINI Annual Workshop on ICT for Smart Cities \& Communities (i-CiTies 2016). September 29-30. Benevento, Italy.}, year = {2016}, abstract = {

Research and industries are devoting a great effort in getting cities and communities smarter. This is a strategic but also very complex process that involves several actors to address many challenges. Following this line, in this paper, we propose a new recycling system based on smart wastes. To this end, we present the Big Bucket IoT Cloud environment where smart dumpsters are equipped with low-cost sensors and open source easy-to-use hardware and software.

}, keywords = {cloud computing, E-government, E-inclusion, IoT, smart cities, Smart Communities, Smart Waste Recycling Systems}, url = {http://www.unisannio.it/I-CiTies2016/}, author = {Maurizio Giacobbe and Carlo Puliafito and Marco Scarpa} }