PerCity 2015 - 2nd International IEEE Workshop on Pervasive Systems for Smart Cities

The ongoing advances in Pervasive Computing technology have delivered interesting hardware platforms that are suitable for city-scale infrastructure deployments. In addition, the success of mobile communication devices and mobile broadband connectivity enables citizens to tap into the digital resources that surround them anytime and anywhere. Yet, application developers are facing a broad range of technical challenges when targeting the city as an application scenario, e.g. with respect to scalability, interoperability, robustness, user involvement, safety and privacy, etc. The goal of PerCity is to explore these challenges and to bring together researchers and practitioners working on systems and applications in the Smart City domain. We will discuss novel and innovative Smart City applications, system software and architectures addressing the challenges of Smart City systems and to gather positive and negative experiences from existing small or large-scale deployments