@article {549, title = {An IoT service ecosystem for Smart Cities: The $\#$SmartME project}, journal = {Internet of Things - Elsevier}, volume = {5}, year = {2019}, pages = {12-33}, abstract = {

$\#$SmartME has been one of the first initiatives in Italy to realize a Smart City through the use of open technologies. Thanks to the use of low cost sensor-powered devices scattered over the city area, different {\textquotedblleft}smart{\textquotedblright} services have been deployed having the Stack4Things framework as the common underlying middleware.\ In this paper, we present the results obtained after 2 years of project highlighting the vertical solutions that have been proposed in different areas ranging from environmental monitoring to parking management.

}, keywords = {Arduino, Blockchain, cloud computing, IoT, OpenStack, Smart city}, issn = {2542-6605}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.iot.2018.11.004}, author = {Dario Bruneo 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 Nachiket Tapas} } @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 {Tricomi2017, title = {Orchestrated Multi-Cloud Application Deployment in OpenStack with TOSCA}, journal = {2017 IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing, SMARTCOMP 2017}, year = {2017}, note = {cited By 0; Conference of 2017 IEEE International Conference on Smart Computing, SMARTCOMP 2017 ; Conference Date: 29 May 2017 Through 31 May 2017; Conference Code:128356}, publisher = {Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.}, address = {Hong Kong; China; 29-31 May 2017}, abstract = {

Cloud computing is becoming a relatively mature paradigm in the ICT landscape. In light of the growing appetite for resources and service levels on par with user expectations, multi-cloud scenarios are becoming the next frontier in the usage of distributed datacenters for private and hybrid Cloud scenarios. Application deployment in particular is a noteworthy feature to be evaluated as microservices become mainstream in adoption. Especially so when considered jointly with orchestration services; indeed OpenStack, as the most widely adopted Cloud middleware among the OpenSource community, features an orchestration subsystem, and may orchestrate the deployment of applications and services. In this work the authors will describe an architecture, developed within the H2020 BEACON project, for a standardized approach to orchestrated application deployment in multi-Cloud OpenStack-based setups, with TOSCA providing the specifications. {\textcopyright} 2017 IEEE.

}, keywords = {Cloud federations, deployment, microservices, middleware, Multi-clouds, OpenStack, orchestration, Platform as a Service (PaaS), TOSCA}, isbn = {9781509065172}, doi = {10.1109/SMARTCOMP.2017.7947027}, url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85023168002\&doi=10.1109\%2fSMARTCOMP.2017.7947027\&partnerID=40\&md5=94bbf6ca2fa1b1d2b92047683723948c}, author = {Giuseppe Tricomi and Alfonso Panarello and Giovanni Merlino and Francesco Longo and Dario Bruneo and Antonio Puliafito} }