Enabling Technologies for Sustainable Smart Cities

As populations rise and cities draw ever-larger populations, smart cities are emerging around the world to cater for the need for sustainable urban development. The exploration of recent advances in information and communication technology (ICT), sensing and energy engineering offers promising enablers for creating, implementing, and promoting sustainable development strategies to address the challenges of this expanding urbanization.

The aim of this book is to equip readers with the conceptual and practical knowledge they need to comprehend and put into practice the technological concepts involved in the design, development, and management of smart cities. The authors explore enabling technologies, capabilities, solutions and strategies to support sustainable smart cities including smart homes, zero energy buildings, smart sensing, Internet of Things (IoT), autonomous IoT, secure IoT, federated learning, data security, network security, privacy-preserving and decentralized intelligence, clean hydrogen and energy harvesting technologies.

With contributions from global experts, this reference is a valuable resource for researchers, engineers, technologists and urban planners in the fields of smart city and urban sustainable development. Lecturers and advanced students will find the book useful as a course reference and for wider reading.

Mohammad A. Matin is a professor in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at North South University (NSU), Dhaka, Bangladesh. His research focuses on wireless sensor networks, antenna engineering, UWB communication, cognitive radio, and EM modelling. He has published over 150 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers. He is the author and editor of 17 academic books and 21 book chapters. He serves as a member of the journal editorial boards for IEEE Communications Magazine and IET Wireless Sensor Systems. He is a member of the IEEE Communications Society. He holds an MSc Engineering degree in Digital Communication from Loughborough University, and a PhD degree in Wireless Communication from Newcastle University, UK.

Sotirios K. Goudos is a professor at the School of Physics, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, director of the ELEDIA@AUTH lab, and a member of the ELEDIA Research Center Network. He is the founding editor-in-chief of the Open Access Journal and serves as associate editor for IEEE Transactions on Antenna and Propagation, IEEE ACCESS, and IEEE Open Journal of the Communication Society. He is the section editor-in-chief in the Information and Communication Technologies Section of the Technologies open-access journal. He has authored the book Emerging Evolutionary Algorithms for Antennas and Wireless Communications (IET, 2021).

Emmanouil M. Tentzeris is Ed and Pat Joy Endowed Chair Professor with the School of ECE at Georgia Tech, USA. His research focuses on novel inkjet/3D printed and flexible RF electronics, sensing, antennas, packaging, IoT, wearables, and sustainable energy harvesting. He has published 850+ papers in journals and at conferences, 7 books, and 26 book chapters. He is a regular co-chair and TPC chair for numerous conferences and workshops including the ACES Symposium, IEEE APS Symposium, and IEEE Wireless Power Transfer Conference. He is a Fellow of IEEE and a Fellow of the Electromagnetics Academy. He is also an IEEE EPS distinguished lecturer and he has served as an IEEE Distinguished Microwave Lecturer and as an IEEE C-RFID distinguished lecturer. He holds an MS and a PhD degree in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA.