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Guest Editors' Introduction
enables water-meter reading with high accuracy.
It effectively prevents water leakages in short
amount of time improving overall efficiency of
water management for smart cities.
The fourth paper presents WATERSensing, an
application for the prevention of flooding. WATERSensing
is based on participation of individuals
through social networks, such as Twitter and Telegram.
The feeds from these networks are analyzed
using natural language processing techniques.
Finally, the fifth paper presents a peer-to-peer
based architecture for smart energy hub. Smart
energy hub enables energy sharing and trading
for Smart Cities by leveraging energy generation
and consumption profiles of residential, commercial,
industrial, and community services.
Smart city applications cover a wide spectrum
of verticals from transportation, health,
environment to living, retail, agriculture, and
tourism as well as technologies, such as data
analytics, sensors, artificial intelligence (AI),
blockchain, 5G networks, and IoT.
Smart city security is important topic to be
addressed by researchers. Given the current
pandemic situation, a virus threat to the city can
be considered as a security issue and a smart
city must be prepared and equipped to handle
it. Recent work by researchers has identified
multiple ways to respond to a virus crisis.6-10
We would liketothank themanyreviewers for
their effort in reviewing the manuscripts. We hope
this special section will stimulate more interests
from researchers and engineers to work on this
multidisciplinary fieldof smart cities.
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Chai KeongToh is an Expert on IoT and Smart Cities
for GLGGroup USA. Hehad previously led smart cities,
smart homes, and smart energy projects for Singapore
Infocomm Development Authority and Singapore
Power Telecom Ltd. as VP and CTO. He is an IEEE Fellow,
AAAS Fellow, and a Foreign Member of the UK
Royal Academy of Engineering. Contact him at:
ckgtoh@gmail.com.
Dejan Milojicic is a Distinguished Technologist
with Hewlett Packard Labs. His research interests
include operating systems, distributed systems, and
systems management. He received multiple best
paper awards and Richard Merwin Award and
Bronze Medal. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, an ACM
Distinguished Technologist, and a member of Eta
Kappa Nu and USENIX. Contact him at dejan.
milojicic@hpe.com.
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