Smart City Solution Engineering

• Main Author: Jerker Delsing
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2021-04-01
• Series: Smart Cities
• Subjects: engineering; modelling; SOA; Arrowhead
• Online Access: https://www.mdpi.com/2624-6511/4/2/33

Many smart city applications have been proposed and demonstrated over the years; however, moving to large-scale deployment is still scarce. A contributing factor to this scarcity is the lack of well-established engineering methodologies for large-scale smart city applications. This paper addresses engineering methodologies and tools for large-scale smart city application engineering, implementation, deployment, and evolution. A model-based engineering approach based on IoT, SOA, and SysML is proposed and applied to a smart streetlight application. Engineering considerations for streetlight area enlargement and updated technology generations with additional capabilities are discussed. The proposed model-based engineering approach provides considerable scaling simplifications and opportunities for considerable savings on engineering costs. The model-based engineering approach also provides good documentation that enables technology evolution specifications that support both maintenance and emerging behaviours.