• Does end of life matter in smart cities? 

      Hefnawy, Ahmed; Bouras, Abdelaziz; Cherifi, Chantal ( Springer New York LLC , 2018 , Conference Paper)
      In the smart city ecosystem, smart systems go through different phases of development from conception and design, through deployment and operation till end of service and retirement. Normally, city operators pay less ...
    • Integration of smart city and lifecycle concepts for enhanced large-scale event management 

      Hefnawy, Ahmed; Bouras, Abdelaziz; Cherifi, Chantal ( Springer New York LLC , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      Hosting large-scale events is the dream of many cities around the world, however challenging. Hosting a large-scale event is a complex project that requires careful planning, precise implementation, interactive operation, ...
    • IoT for smart city services: Lifecycle approach 

      Hefnawy, Ahmed; Bouras, Abdelaziz; Cherifi, Chantal ( Association for Computing Machinery , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      "Internet of Things" (IoT) and "Smart City" are widely recognized to address the complexity of modern city operation. Concentration of population, scarcity of resources and environmental concerns are the main challenges ...
    • Lifecycle management in the smart city context: Smart parking use-case 

      Hefnawy, Ahmed; Elhariri, Taha; Bouras, Abdelaziz; Cherifi, Chantal; Robert, Jeremy; ... more authors ( Springer New York LLC , 2016 , Conference Paper)
      Lifecycle management enables enterprises to manage their products, services and product-service bundles. IoT and CPS have made products and services smarter by closing the loop of data across different phases of lifecycle. ...
    • Open IoT Ecosystem for Sporting Event Management 

      Kubler, Sylvain; Robert, Jérémy; Hefnawy, Ahmed; Främling, Kary; Cherifi, Chantal; ... more authors ( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2017 , Article)
      By connecting devices, people, vehicles, and infrastructures everywhere in a city, governments and their partners can improve community well-being and other economic and financial aspects (e.g., cost and energy savings). ...
    • Relevance of lifecycle management to smart city development 

      Hefnawy, Ahmed; Bouras, Abdelaziz; Cherifi, Chantal ( Inderscience Publishers , 2018 , Article)
      Smart cities are complex ecosystems with interrelated systems or system of systems. Hence, management of smart cities is very important due to the big number of stakeholders, diversity of application domains, heterogeneity ...