Rapid urbanisation has provided the city with a large labour force, which has been an essential ingredient for turning Istanbul into the industrial, financial and logistics hub that it is now known as. However, for all its successes, its journey to becoming one of the world’s most prosperous...
This is already happening in cities across the world and is manifest in various systems, such as the use of "smart transport cards" like London's Oyster Card, smart grid sensor network systems [12], and domestic energy usage interventions [13,14]. Moreover, many people living in the city...
The European Union is actively promoting the idea of “smart villages”. The increased uptake of new technology and in particular, the use of the internet, is seen as a vital part of strategies to combat rural decline. It is evident that those areas most poorly connected to the internet are...