Course description

The Mooc “Technological challenges of participatory smart cities” is a high level introduction to the constituents of the smart cities’ digital infrastructures, from the network up to the software layers. The proposed survey highlights the technical aspects to be taken into account to create practical services and to develop smarter cities involving citizen participation. In particular, it imparts information on privacy and interoperability aspects.

Course objectives

By the end of the course, you will be able to:

• define what is a smart city and the digital technologies supporting it
• identify the required skills to design, develop and deploy innovative services toward smarter cities
• picture new digital services for the urban environment while capturing the technologies they rely on
• apprehend the costs and impediments (both technological and societal) that may occur to deploy a new digital service in the city
• investigate public participation in the development of smart cities and the technological and societal challenges that emerge from it.

Who is this course for?

The course is designed for engineers or project leaders working for a company developing or willing to develop smart city projects involving citizen participation. It also addresses the challenges of professionals of a city government or a public institution who implement a smart city project which involves the deployment of digital technologies in the urban environment.

Course outline

Module 1: Introduction: a perspective on smarter cities

Module 2: Network infrastructures for participatory urban systems

Module 3: Software infrastructures for participatory urban systems

Module 4: Cloud-based urban data management

*Module 5: Privacy-preserving urban systems

Pedagogical team

Authors:

• Nicolas Anciaux, research scientist, Inria
• Stéphane Grumbach, research scientist in the ecosystems of intermédiation platforms, Inria
• Valérie Issarny, research scientist distributed systems, Inria
• Nathalie Mitton, research scientist in wireless networks, Inria
• Christine Morin, research scientist, Inria
• Animesh Pathak, research scientist in softaware for sensor networks, Inria
• Hervé Rivano, Professor in wireless networks for digital cities, INSA

Pedagogical support:

• Marie Collin, learning engineer, Inria Learning Lab.
• Christelle Mariais, learning engineer, Inria Learning Lab.

Partners

The course has been produced by Inria with the support of EIT Digital in 2017.