Smart City

@techreport{Amrutur2018,
title = {Final report on the project "Study of India appropriate technology (IoT) solutions for Smart Cities"},
author = {Bharadwaj Amrutur and Hemant Darbari},
url = {http://www.rbccps.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/IISc_IoT4SmartCities_Consolidated_Report.pdf},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-04-30},
abstract = {The main objectives of our project are: (1) Recommendation and guidelines for Smart City RFPs related to IoT specific
technologies, driven by India specific use case analysis and emerging technology adoption methodology, and (2) India appropriate reference architecture for IoT enabled Smart cities through a collaborative platform of domain experts from industry, academia, government, start-ups, professional bodies and user agencies.

We conducted two workshops with City administrators: One in Chandigarh and another in Electronics City, to understand the city’s requirements. A series of telecons/webcons were held with technical presentations from a diverse set of domain experts from industry, academia, government, startups, etc. Further deliberations and discussions
were done to synthesize the view points in this report.},
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@misc{Ramesh2018,
title = {Interoperable middleware for smartcities - Streetlighting on LoRaWAN as a case study},
author = {Rakshit Ramesh and Srikrishna Acharya and Vasanth Rajaraman and Arun Babu and Ashish Joglekar and Abhay Sharma and Bharadwaj Amrutur and Prashant Namekar},
url = {http://www.rbccps.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/AnInteroperableMiddleware.pdf},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-01-07},
booktitle = {10th International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS), 03.-07.01.18, Bangalore},
abstract = {A smart city, is like every other organism a structured and organized entity. An organism comprises of a brain that performs its tasks via its appendages, just as smart cities should. However the brain needs a spine through which it communicates information to its appendages, becomes a point of confluence of different sensory and actuator pathways and facilitates activities. We herein put forth our work involving the building of such a spine for a smart city, and focus on the last mile communication aspects, especially using an LPWAN network and an implementation example with smart streetlights.},
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pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {presentation}
}

@conference{Joglekar2018b,
title = {Online I-V Tracer for per string monitoring and maintenance of PV panels},
author = {Ashish Joglekar and Balachandra Hegde},
url = {http://www.rbccps.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/05/08591616.pdf},
doi = {10.1109/IECON.2018.8591616},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-12-31},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 44th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON), 21.-23.10.18, Washington, D.C. (USA)},
pages = {1890-1894},
abstract = {Large scale solar photovoltaic plants need to be monitored regularly for determining location and type of fault, cleaning schedules, operating point and performance. We propose a circuit that sits at the junction box level to provide `on demand', `online' I-V traces for series connected panels. This sparse sensing approach works on a per string basis and is therefore economical. The proposed online I-V tracer topology does not require the plant to be brought offline to obtain the I-V trace. The load's power requirement is met during the trace. The shape of the I-V trace helps determine the type of fault and localizes the fault to a specific string. The proposed solution has been tested in a practical field deployment. An analytics engine is also being developed to use the recorded I-V curve to provide optimal cleaning schedules, fault diagnosis and maintenance alerts.},
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pubstate = {published},
tppubtype = {conference}
}

@article{Simmhan2018,
title = {Towards a data‐driven IoT software architecture for Smart City utilities},
author = {Yogesh Simmhan and Pushkara Ravindra and Shilpa Chaturvedi and Malati Hedge and Rashmi Ballamajalu},
url = {http://www.rbccps.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/Simmhan_et_al-2018-Software3A_Practice_and_Experience.pdf},
doi = {10.1002/spe.2580},
year = {2018},
date = {2018-07-31},
journal = {Software: Practice and Experience},
volume = {48},
number = {7},
pages = {1390-1416},
abstract = {The Internet of things (IoT) is emerging as the next big wave of digital presence for billions of devices on the Internet. Smart cities are a practical manifestation of IoT, with the goal of efficient, reliable, and safe delivery of city utilities like water, power, and transport to residents, through their intelligent management. A data‐driven IoT software platform is essential for realizing manageable and sustainable smart utilities and for novel applications to be developed upon them. Here, we propose such service‐oriented software architecture to address 2 key operational activities in a smart utility: the IoT fabric for resource management and the data and application platform for decision‐making. Our design uses Open Web standards and evolving network protocols, cloud and edge resources, and streaming big data platforms. We motivate our design requirements using the smart water management domain; some of these requirements are unique to developing nations. We also validate the architecture within a campus‐scale IoT testbed at the Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore and present our experiences. Our architecture is scalable to a township or city while also generalizable to other smart utility domains. Our experiences serve as a template for other similar efforts, particularly in emerging markets and highlight the gaps and opportunities for a data‐driven IoT software architecture for smart cities. },
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@conference{Amrutur2017,
title = {An open Smart City IoT test bed: Street light poles as Smart City spines},
author = {Bharadwaj Amrutur and Vasanth Rajaraman and Srikrishna Acharya and Rakshit Ramesh and Ashish Joglekar and Abhay Sharma and Yogesh Simmhan and Abhijit Lele and Ashwin Mahesh and Sathya Sankaran},
url = {http://www.rbccps.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/p323-Amrutur.pdf},
doi = {10.1145/3054977.3057303},
year = {2017},
date = {2017-06-15},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Internet-of-Things Design and Implementation (IoTDI), 18.-21.04.17, Pittsburgh (USA)},
pages = {323-324},
abstract = {Street light poles will be a key enabler for a smart city's hardware infrastructure, thanks to their ubiquity throughout the city as well as access to power. We propose an IoT test bed around light poles for the city, with a modular hardware and software architecture to enable experimentation with various technologies.},
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