Summary
IEICE Information and Communication Technology Forum
2015
Session Number:SESSION8
Session:
Number:SESSION8-6
Space-enabled Future Smart Cities: A Review of Technologies and Resources
Sunday Cookey Ekpo,
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Publication Date:2015-08-31
Online ISSN:2188-5079
DOI:10.34385/proc.22.SESSION8-6
Summary:
Satellite-enabled applications and services have continued to enhance the global economy and sustainable development on a daily basis. It is predicted that capability-based space satellite missions and applications will revolutionise the emergence of smart cities in 5 to 10 years from now. The various stakeholders in the space community (including the satellite industry, military, civilians, government, corporate organisations, educational and research institutions, agencies and ICT practitioners) have embraced the challenges of the requirements of space-enabled smart cities. This has resulted in an unprecedented increase in the number of new international space entrants, collaborative research and technology developments and product offerings for innovative services. The ultimate global experience is a growing seamless merging of adaptive space assets with terrestrial assets. Current and emerging digital and RF/microwave engineering systems have championed the majority of the innovative services proposed for the future intelligent cities. It is essential to investigate the existing and emerging systems technologies, multifunctional network platforms and protocols, space segment assets and ground segment resources and how they can be integrated and optimised to provide commercially cost-effective, sustainable, reliable, capability-based and real-time services for future smart cities.