BLG 553E Special Topics in Computer Engineering Dersi
Oca 27, 2016
BLG 553E Special Topics in Computer Engineering: Digital Solutions for Smart Cities
Instructors: Prof. Dr. Sema F. Oktuğ, Asst. Prof. Dr. Yusuf Yaslan
Course Outline
- Introduction (Week 1-2): A Walk Through the Smart City: Examples of How the City is Being Automated and Instrumented. A Very Quick History of the Development of Wireless, TV, Computers, the Internet and Real Time Control in the City
- Invited Talk (Week 3)
- Smart Traffic Management (Week 4)
- Invited Talk (Week 5) - Project Proposal Deadline (Week 5)
- Smart Waste Management (Week 6)
- Smart Water Management (Week 7)
- Other Issues to deal smartly (Week 8)
- Participatory approach for solutions: Crowd-Sourcing, City Dash Boards, Social Media Integration, Emergency Response and Location-Based Services (Week 9)
- Current Situation at Turkish Municipalities regarding smart city applications, The report of Turkish Informatics Foundation. What’s happening at the other sides of the world? Barcelona Municipality, Santander Municipality (Week 10)
- Data for Smart Cities. Data Mining applications for smart cities (Week 11)
- Platforms for Smart Cities (Week 12)
- Project Discussions (Week 13-14)
Grading:
- 2 Paper evaluation and presentations (2x15% grade)
- 1 Group project. (2 people) (20% term work. 25% final work including poster, presentation and report)
- Final (25%)
- 70% Attendance is compulsory
Reading Materials:
- The New Science of Cities, Michael Batty, MIT Press, Nov. 2013
- Papers will be assigned by the instructors.