TY - CHAP AU - Daniel Picchi AU - Mateus Lourenço AU - Alexandre da Silva AU - Daniel Nascimento AU - Eric Saldanha AU - Inácio Dantas AU - José Resende ED - Ivan Nunes Da Silva ED - Rogerio Andrade Flauzino Y1 - 2016-12-07 PY - 2016 T1 - Learnings from Pilot Implementation of Smart City by a Brazilian Energy Utility 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. 5 UR - https://doi.org/10.5772/65396 DO - 10.5772/65396 SN - 978-953-51-2808-3 PB - IntechOpen CY - Rijeka Y2 - 2024-04-18 ER -