Challenges and Solutions for Sustainable Smart City Development (eng)

This book discusses advances in smart and sustainable development of smart environments. The authors discuss the challenges faced in developing sustainable smart applications and provide potential solutions. The solutions are aimed at improving reliability and security with the goal of affordability, safety, and durability. Topics include health care applications, sustainable smart transportation systems, intelligent sustainable wearable electronics, and sustainable smart building and alert systems. Authors are from both industry and academia and present research from around the world.

• Addresses problems and solutions for sustainable development of smart cities;
• Includes applications such as healthcare, transportation, wearables, security, and more;
• Relevant for scientist and researchers working on real time smart city development.

Dr. R. Maheswar has completed his B.E (ECE) from Madras University in the year 1999, M.E (Applied Electronics) from Bharathiyar University in the year 2002 and Ph.D in the field of Wireless Sensor Network from Anna University in the year 2012. He has about 19 years of teaching experience at various levels and presently working as Dean – Research (Assistant) and Dean In-Charge for the School of EEE, VIT Bhopal University, Bhopal. He has published around 70 papers at International Journals and International Conferences and published 4 patents. His research interest includes Wireless Sensor Network, IoT, Queueing theory and Performance Evaluation. He has served as guest editor for Wireless Networks Journal, Springer and serving as editorial review board member for peer reviewed journals, and also edited 4 books supported by EAI/Springer Innovations in Communications and Computing book series. He is presently an associate editor in Wireless Networks Journal, Springer, Alexandria Engineering Journal, Elsevier and Ad-hoc Sensor Wireless Networks Journal, Old City Publishing.

Dr. M. Balasaraswathi is an Associate Professor at the Graduate Program in Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE) of Saveetha School of Engineering at Saveetha Institute of Medical And Technical Sciences (SIMATS), Chennai, India. She has completed her B.E (ECE) from Madras University in 1999, M.E (Applied Electronics) from College of Engineering, Guindy, Anna University in 2005 and Ph.D in the field of Wireless Communications from Anna University in 2017. She has about 18 years of teaching experience at various levels. Her research interests include wireless communications, wireless sensor networks, IoT, signal and image processing, nature inspired computing. She has authored and edited few books published by reputed publishers, co-authored and published research articles in science citation index journals, conference proceedings, presentations and book chapters. She served as a member and committee chair of various international conferences and also coauthored 2 patents. She is serving as editorial review board members for peer reviewed journals. She has received South Indian Women Achievers Award in 2019.

Dr. Ravi Rastogi received his Ph.D. degree in Computer Science and Engineering in December 2011 from Uttarakhand Technical University, Dehradun, Uttarakhand, India, M.S in Computer Science degree in September 2005 from Fairleigh Dickinson University, Teaneck, New Jersey, USA, Bachelor of Science degree in 1999 from Ch. Charan Singh University, Meerut, Uttar Pradesh, India. He has worked as database developer, in Microsoft, Seattle, USA and ING Philadelphia, USA. He has also taught and worked in Jaypee University of Information Technology, Waknaghat, Solan, Himachal Pradesh, India for almost four years. He has also taught and worked as department coordinator in Sharda University, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India for fouryears and Galgotias University, Greater Noida, Uttar Pradesh, India for more than two years. At present, he is working in University of Bisha, Bisha, Saudi Arabia. Research interests are in the fields of Interconnection Networks, Stable Matching problems, Data Mining and Intelligence in systems, Internet of Things, Cloud Computing. 

Dr. A. Sampathkumar received his Bachelor’s in Information Technology in 2009; Master’s in Mainframe Technology in 2012 and completed Ph.D Degree in Anna   University Chennai in 2019.  He  has 10  years  of  academic  experience  and  currently working  as  program chair for B.Tech CSE with Specialization in Health Informatics in School of Computing Science and Engineering at VIT Bhopal University, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh,   India. He has been involved in organizing several International conferences and workshops. He was the Conference Technical Chair and Publication Chair of several IEEE conferences.  He   has   published   more than 16   articles   in   peer-re-viewed  journals,  and  has  been reviewer  for  few  reputed  international  journals  and  member  of  CSI, ACM societies.  His research interest includes artificial intelligence, data mining, machine learning, Wireless Sensor Networks, data analytic and optimization techniques.

Dr. G. R. Kanagachidambaresan received his B.E degree in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from Anna University in 2010 and M.E. Pervasive Computing Technologies in Anna University in 2012. He has completed his Ph.D. (Wireless Body Area Networks, Healthcare) in Anna University Chennai in 2017. He is currently an Associate Professor, Department of CSE, Vel Tech Rangarajan Dr. Sagunthala R&D Institute of Science and Technology. His main research interest includes Body Sensor Network and Fault tolerant Wireless Sensor Network. He has published several reputed articles and undertaken several consultancy activities for leading MNC companies. He has also guest edited several special issue volumes and books in SPRINGER and serving as editorial review board members for peer reviewed journals. He is presently working on several Govt sponsored research projects like ISRO, DBT and DST. He is the managing Director for Eazythings Technology Private Limited.