Imperial College London

DrCatherineMulligan

Business School

Casual - Visiting lect, guest spkr, ext. examiner
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 2916c.mulligan

 
 
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Location

 

Business School BuildingSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Mulligan:2013,
author = {Mulligan, CEA and Olsson, M},
journal = {IEEE Communications Magazine},
title = {Architectural Implications of Smart City Business Models: An Evolutionary Perspective},
volume = {51},
year = {2013}
}

RIS format (EndNote, RefMan)

TY  - JOUR
AB - Smart cities have rapidly become a hot topic within technology communities, and promise both improved delivery of services to end users and reduced environmental impact in an era of unprecedented urbanization. Both large hightech companies and grassroots citizen-led initiatives have begun exploring the potential of these technologies. Significant barriers remain to the successful rollout and deployment of business models outlined for smart city applications and services, however. Most of these barriers pertain to an ongoing battle between two main schools of thought for system architecture, ICT and telecommunications, proposed for data management and service creation. Both of these system architectures represent a certain type of value chain and the legacy perspective of the respective players that wish to enter the smart city arena. Smart cities services, however, utilize components of both the ICT industry and mobile telecommunications industries, and do not benefit from the current binary perspective of system architecture. The business models suggested for the development of smart cities require a longterm strategic view of system architecture evolution. This article discusses the architectural evolution required to ensure that the rollout and deployment of smart city technologies is smooth through acknowledging and integrating the strengths of both the system architectures proposed.
AU - Mulligan,CEA
AU - Olsson,M
PY - 2013///
TI - Architectural Implications of Smart City Business Models: An Evolutionary Perspective
T2 - IEEE Communications Magazine
VL - 51
ER -