How IoT, AAI Can Contribute to Smart Home and Smart Cities Services - the Role of Innovation

The urbanization of the cities will increase over the coming years and megacities will arrive with more than ten millions citizens. These megacities will have challenges such as create sustainable and cost efficient environments, enrichment of life quality for the citizens, and being able to handle non-static concepts that evolve over time. To address these challenges the latest information and communication technology (ICT) including its available services is needed. ICT offers a concept that fuels sustainable economic development and a high quality of life together with a wise management of natural resources. A valuable smart city ICT infrastructure must be able to integrate the smart homes into a coherent smart city concept. Vitale elements in this concept are Internet of Things (IoT), Clouds of Things (CoT), and Artificial Intelligence (AI).
The integration of a smart city, its embedded smart homes, and its offered service framework into a coherent ICT-based solution is the main focus of this paper. Thus, data from the smart homes will play a vital role in the development of innovative smart city services. In the near future it is expected that various kinds of home related data will be processed by an ICT-based infrastructure to provide intelligent community and personalized healthcare services.
ICT relates to the research areas that deal with adaptive AI, IoT, and CoT. These areas are developing rapidly in their own fields, but currently no research work that combines them with smart homes and smart cities has been done.
This paper will introduce a novel ICT concept that adapts and distributes the artificial intelligence between the smart homes and the smart cities. More specifically, the aim of this paper is to present a novel ICT-based infrastructure for future smart cities which comprises a collection of smart homes equipped with IoT’s and an AAI system. The presented concept includes novel services for citizens and it seems to move the state-of-the-art for innovative smart city services into the next era, i.e. a new ecosystem. Furthermore we will investigate the relationship between ICT based infrastructure and innovation. The theory of innovation will be used to explain the phenomenon by which the technological and service innovation transforms existing cities into smart cities. We will demonstrate the innovative use of distributed IoT, CoT, AAI to solve problems in the area of social programs and healthcare, environment, energy and water, government, administration and public safety services.