# IDEAL-CITIES: A Trustworthy and Sustainable Framework for Circular Smart Cities

## TL;DR

IDEAL-CITIES is a framework designed to enable smart cities to adopt a data-driven Circular Economy model by leveraging cyber-physical systems, crowdsourcing, and real-time decision making for sustainable resource utilization.

## Contribution

It introduces a novel architecture for cyber-physical systems that supports circular economy principles in smart city environments.

## Key findings

- Demonstrated two use cases showing circular economy in smart cities
- Proposed architecture enhances resource utilization and sustainability
- Supports real-time decision making and crowdsourcing

## Abstract

Reflecting upon the sustainability challenges cities will be facing in the near future and the recent technological developments allowing cities to become "smart", we introduce IDEAL-CITIES; a framework aiming to provide an architecture for cyber-physical systems to deliver a data-driven Circular Economy model in a city context. In the IDEAL-CITIES ecosystem, the city's finite resources as well as citizens will form the pool of intelligent assets in order to contribute to high utilization through crowdsourcing and real-time decision making and planning. We describe two use cases as a vehicle to demonstrate how a smart city can serve the Circular Economy paradigm.

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Source: https://tomesphere.com/paper/1907.11042