Joyce Mwangama, Alexander Willner, Neco Ventura, Asma Elmangoush, Tom Pfeifer, Thomas Magedanz
الملخص العربي
With a large majority of the world’s population moving towards living in urban environments in the foreseeable future, the notion of Smart Cities is emerging globally as an important research topic. A particular challenge is the unstable power supply of cities in underdeveloped countries, thus creating a need for smart energy management systems. By installing small smart and affordable devices at the end-user’s location, information about the state of the power grid can be collected and transmitted (over different network technologies) to a central controller. This can be the future technique for South Africa’s grid overload management, which operates in a demand- response manner allowing for loads to be measured and limited as needed. To investigate this issue we propose to interweave a Smart City platform and an ETSI/oneM2M compliant Machine-to-Machine communication framework. We emphasize secure identification and authentication of sensors and users as well as a policy-based store and forward functionality. To validate our approach, we analyse the core developments by carrying out experimental research in federated testbeds in Berlin and Cape Town using a Slice Federation Architecture (SFA) compliant framework and conducting field studies (pilots) in Johannesburg and San Vicenc dels Horts.
أسماء عبدالله المنقوش | Asma Elmangoush | 4569