Data Driven Reference Architecture for Smart City Ecosystems
Mohammad Abu-Matar, John Davies

TL;DR
This paper presents smartCityRA, a reference architecture for smart city projects emphasizing the central role of Data, demonstrated through a UAE use case, to enhance integration, flexibility, and stakeholder collaboration.
Contribution
The paper introduces smartCityRA, a novel reference architecture that highlights Data as central, with a refined multi-view model and practical implementation insights from a real-world use case.
Findings
Data drives the entire development lifecycle in smart city projects.
A Data Hub facilitates integration of disparate data sources.
The architecture supports flexible adoption by diverse stakeholders.
Abstract
With the convergence of information and telecommunication technologies, the vision of the Smart City is fast becoming a reality. City governments in a growing number of countries are capitalizing on these advances to enhance the lives of their citizens and to increase efficiency and sustainability. In this paper, we elaborate on smartCityRA, a reference architecture for Smart City projects, which serves as the design language for creating smart cities blueprints. Such a blueprint caters for diverse stakeholders, devices, platforms, and technologies. We report on our experience in carrying out a proof-of-concept use case with a major telecommunication provider in the UAE. In doing so, we refined our multiple-view model of the initial smartCityRA reference architecture. We show that Data in smart city applications drive the entire development lifecycle and should be considered early in…
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