Embedded intelligence in smart cities through multi-core smart building architectures: Research achievements and challenges

Economic growth in Europe has been, strongly associated with urbanization, overwhelming cities with vehicles. This renders mobility inside cities problematic, since it is often associated with large waste of time in traffie congestions, environmental pollution and accidents. Cities struggle to invent and deploy “smart” solutions in the domain of urban mobility, so as to offer innovative services to citizens and visitors and improve the overall quality of life. In this context, the paper discusses on the fundamental challenges that cities face when trying to become smarter, focusing on the particular area of smart buildings and the management of multi-core, smart building architectures and presents some key research achievements and relevant research challenges.