TY - CHAP AU - Abdelfatteh Haidine AU - Sanae El Hassani AU - Abdelhak Aqqal AU - Asmaa El Hannani ED - Ivan Nunes Da Silva ED - Rogerio Andrade Flauzino Y1 - 2016-12-07 PY - 2016 T1 - The Role of Communication Technologies in Building Future Smart Cities N2 - What are smart cities? What are their purposes? What are the impacts resulting from their implementations? With these questions in mind, this book is compiled with the primary concern of answering readers with different profiles; from those interested in acquiring basic knowledge about the various topics surrounding the subject related to smart cities, to those who are more motivated by knowing the technical elements and the technological apparatus involving this theme. This book audience is multidisciplinary, as it will be confirmed by the various chapters addressed here. It explores different knowledge areas, such as electric power systems, signal processing, telecommunications, electronics, systems optimization, computational intelligence, real-time systems, renewable energy systems, and information systems. BT - Smart Cities Technologies SP - Ch. 4 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/64732 DO - 10.5772/64732 SN - 978-953-51-2808-3 PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-19 ER -