Architecture and Platform for Smart Environments and Cities (APSEC)

智慧城市的概念通常用于指系统地涉及信息和通信技术（ICT）的城市，以提高向利益相关者提供的服务质量或降低运营成本。在这方面，利益攸关方指的是公民以及公司和机构。需要满足的需求是各种各样的：社会的、经济的和环境的。在这些目标中，智慧城市旨在降低管理和运营成本，促进经济发展，提供适当的服务，真实的实时捕获和跟踪数据，为市政当局创造新的收入。本研究项目的主要目标是设计一个创新和开放的架构/平台，以支持智能X环境，如智能家居，智能建筑，智能移动和交通，智能基础设施，重点是智能城市。该平台应促进专门用于管理各种网络物理元素的智能X应用程序的开发、集成和实施。我们的长期目标是设计一个高效、动态的控制平台，并将其原型化，以确保不同异构网络技术之间的可扩展性和实时互操作性，从而实现智能环境和智能城市的开发和部署。该项目的独创性依赖于这样一个事实，即它倡导一个丰富的智能环境系统，所有的解决方案都跨越了智能环境应用的整个范围，并且基于可靠的通信构建块，能够确保不同异构网络架构之间的可扩展的、高效的、可靠的和实时的跨层互操作性，以用于特定的基础设施模式预测和特定的应用场景。就加拿大的利益而言，该项目将为技术-人力基础设施一体化提供创新的、概念性的和全市性的平台，以便通过应对公民参与、制造效率、经济发展和环境可持续性等城市挑战，彻底改变公民生活的各个领域。

The concept of smart city is generally used to refer to a city that involves systemically the Information and communication technologies (ICT) to improve the quality of services provided to stakeholders or to reduce operating costs. In this context, stakeholders designate citizens as well as companies and institutions. The needs to be met are of various kinds: social, economic and environmental. Among the objectives, smart cities aim at reducing the cost of administration and operations, promoting economic development, providing appropriate services, capturing and tracking data in real time to generate new revenues for the municipality.The main objective of this research project is to design an innovative and open architecture/platform for supporting smart-X environments such as smart home, smart building, smart mobility and transport, smart infrastructure, with a focus on smart city. This platform should facilitate the development, integration and implementation of smart-X applications dedicated to the management of various cyber-physical elements. The long-term objective is to design and prototype an efficient and dynamic control platform for ensuring a scalable and real-time interoperability between different heterogeneous networking technologies for the development and the deployment of smart environments and smart cities.The originality of this project relies on the fact that it advocates for a rich and smart environment system that provides one-size-fits-all solution which spans the whole spectrum of smart environments applications and that is based on solid communication building blocks capable of ensuring scalable, efficient, reliable and real-time cross layer interoperability between different heterogeneous network architectures for particular infrastructure pattern predictions and for particular application scenarios. In terms of benefits for Canada, this project will provide innovative, conceptual and city-wide platforms for technology-human infrastructure integration in order to revolutionize every area of the citizens' life by tackling urban challenges such as citizen engagement, manufacturing efficiency, economic development and environmental sustainability.