Transforming Smart Cities with Spatial Computing

Yiqun Xie, Jayant Gupta, Yan Li, Shashi Shekhar

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Abstract

Spatial methods have a rich history of reforming city infrastructure. For example, John Snow's 1854 London Cholera map spurred cities to protect drinking water via sewer systems and to increase green spaces for public health. Today, geospatial data and mapping are among the technologies that cities use the most due to strategic (e.g., long-Term planning, land-use), tactical (e.g., property tax, site selection, asset tracking) and operational (e.g., E-911, situation awareness, gunshot location) use cases. Moreover, they (e.g., Google Maps) help citizens navigate, drones stay clear of restricted spaces (e.g., airports, NFL games), and sharing-economy (e.g., Uber) match consumers with nearby providers. Future spatial computing opportunities for smart cities are even more compelling. GIS promises to help re-imagine, redesign, see, and compare alternative infrastructure futures to address risks (e.g., climate change, rising inequality, population growth) and opportunities (e.g., autonomous vehicles, distributed energy production). This paper surveys recent spatial computing accomplishments and identifies research needs for smart-city use-cases.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publication2018 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference, ISC2 2018
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
ISBN (Electronic)9781538659595
DOIs
StatePublished - Feb 28 2019
Event2018 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference, ISC2 2018 - Kansas City, United States
Duration: Sep 16 2018Sep 19 2018

Publication series

Name2018 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference, ISC2 2018

Conference

Conference2018 IEEE International Smart Cities Conference, ISC2 2018
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityKansas City
Period9/16/189/19/18

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
National Science Foundation under Grants No. 1541876, 1029711, IIS-1320580, 0940818 and IIS-1218168

Funding Information:
This material is based upon work supported by the National Science Foundation under Grants No. 1541876, 1029711, IIS-1320580, 0940818 and IIS-1218168, the USDOD under Grants No. HM1582-08-1-0017 and HM0210-13-1-0005, ARPA-E under Grant No. DE-AR0000795, USDA under Grant No. 2017-51181-27222, NIH under Grant No. UL1 TR002494, KL2 TR002492 and TL1 TR002493 and the OVPR Infrastructure Investment Initiative and Minnesota Supercomputing Institute (MSI) at the University of Minnesota. We thank our NSF Smart and Connected Communities project parteners, namely, Hennepin County, and cities of Minneapolis, St. Paul and Tallahassee for sharing use-cases and datasets. We would like to thank Jamal Golmohammadi for helping with the figures and Kim Koffolt, Samantha Detor and the spatial computing research group for their helpful comments and refinement.

Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 IEEE.

Keywords

  • infrastructure
  • smart city
  • spatial computing

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