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Smart cities software architectures: a survey

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The smart cities concept arises from the need to manage, automate, optimize and explore all aspects of a city that could be improved. For this purpose it is necessary to build a robust architecture that satisfies a minimal number of requirements such as distributed sensing, integrated management and flexibility. Several architectures have been proposed with different goals, but none of them met satisfactorily the needs that permeate smart cities. In this work various architectures are discussed, highlighting the main requirements that they aim to fulfill. Furthermore, based on different architectures with the most varied purposes, a set of requirements for the implementation of a smart city is presented and discussed.

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          SAC '13: Proceedings of the 28th Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
          March 2013
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          ISBN:9781450316569
          DOI:10.1145/2480362

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