Smart Solutions for Future Cities and Communities

Lecture 1 (Introduction): What are smart cities and how they will transform future urban environments and living, different smart city concepts, potential barriers and challenges for smart cities.

Lecture 2: Smart transportation systems for smart cities, electric vehicles, electric busses, electric ships and ferries, smart harbors, charging infrastructure for electric transportation, driverless vehicles, electric aircrafts, sharing economy aspects related to transportation and cars.

Lecture 3: Role of people in smart cities, data produced by people and related to their behavior, planning co-creation and innovation of new areas and services.

Lecture 4: Smart city infrastructure and technology needs also for smart social services, hospitals and smart factories with smart manufacturing.

Lecture 5: Role of ICT technologies in smart cities, possibilities of future monitoring and control systems with IoT, data-analytics and cloud-computing, air-quality measurements outside and inside in buildings, data and information flows related to different services in smart cities, smart city information systems, challenges related to data ownership, privacy and ethics.

Lecture 6: Transition processes and roadmaps towards smart cities, Role of circular and sharing economy in smart cities and communities.

Lecture 7: Smart city infrastructure and technology needs also for smart social services, hospitals and smart factories with smart manufacturing.

Lecture 8: New businesses and business models in smart cities Smart city examples, ongoing development and pilot projects

Lecture 9: Role of city governance and leadership, different stakeholders, policy and standards in development and planning of smart cities.