Authors:
Pablo A. Pérez-Martínez
;
Antoni Martínez-Ballesté
and
Agusti Solanas
Affiliation:
Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Spain
Keyword(s):
Parking, Smart Cities, Privacy, Privacy Enhancing Technologies, Ubiquitous Computing.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Mobile and Pervasive Computing
;
Pervasive Embedded Networks
;
Security and Privacy
;
Telecommunications
;
Ubiquitous Computing Systems and Services
Abstract:
Cities are steadily growing and the process of urbanisation is prevalent
worldwide. Cities are getting bigger and crowded and, as a result, organisational processes
within those cities are becoming more important. With the aim to provide citizens with a
better place to live, a new concept of city was born: the \textit{\textbf{Smart City}}.\\
This concept has gained much attention and many ``regular'' cities
are taking action so as to become ``smart''. To do so, cities are deploying and using
information and communication technologies, with the aim to tackling many local
problems from local economy and transportation to quality of life and e-governance.\\
In this article we recall the concept of \textit{Smart City} and its main areas of
interest. We discuss that the ubiquitous use of information and communication technologies
within the context of a \textit{Smart City} might lead to the transparent gathering of
private data from citizens.
We focus on the transportation area and
, more specifically, in the parking problems
that might arise in big cities. We propose a set of procedures, based on privacy enhancing
technologies, that allow the private, secure and efficient management of parking in
\textit{Smart Cities}.\\
The main goal of this article is to foster discussion about the privacy issues that might
arise in a \textit{Smart City} and to provide an example scenario (\textit{i.e.} public
parking) to demonstrate some interesting ideas and show some open problems.
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