Smart Cities in Europe and the ALMA Logistics Project

Release Date:2015-12-22 Author:Didier El Baz and Julien Bourgeois Click:

[Abstract] In this paper, a brief survey of smart citiy projects in Europe is presented. This survey shows the extent of transport and logistics in smart cities. We concentrate on a smart city project we have been working on that is related to A Logistic Mobile Application (ALMA). The application is based on Internet of Things and combines a communication infrastructure and a High Performance Computing infrastructure in order to deliver mobile logistic services with high quality of service and adaptation to the dynamic nature of logistic operations.

[Keywords] smart cities; Internet of Things; logistics; combinatorial optimization; high performance computing

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