Smart Cities: A Golden Age for Control Theory?

Abstract

The recent radical progress in the fields of future Internet and Smart City related technology innovation are transforming society. Describes theupcoming society as a sociotechnical urban superorganismc. One of the main drivers of this transformation is digital technology, whose impact on the structure and on the dynamics of social networks is also explored in. The ubiquitous presence of networked embedded devices is the cornerstone of the Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm, which thanks to portable devices is quickly evolving into a so-called Internet of People (IoP) dimension. The social impacts of future Internet and Smart City related technologies range over very different fields, including health-care; natural disaster prevention; cooperative transportation; as well as enabling the realization of low-carbon societies, advanced E-Commerce, and real-time human behaviors and activity monitoring.