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Teledermatology offers the possibility of improving access to dermatologic care by using telecommunication technologies for connecting several medical centers and enabling to exchange information about skin conditions over a distance. This paper describes the main points of the implementation of a teledermatology project following the so-called smart region paradigm. A case study is presented to describe...
Nowadays, there is an ever-increasing migration of people to urban areas. Health care service is one of the most challenging aspects that is greatly affected by the vast influx of people to city centers. Consequently, cities around the world are investing heavily in digital transformation in an effort to provide healthier ecosystems for people. In such a transformation, millions of homes are being...
Applications in Smart City context are improving the quality of life of citizens through several technological interactions. These interactions can be also used to relate the citizens' emotions to city's areas. Thus, the main objective of this work is to present a smart phone application that analyzes the citizens' emotions and the relations between these parameters and different city's areas. Daily...
Smart cities and related ICT are among the most popular topics in IT and urban management research. Smart city advocates focus on ICT applications that enhance the comfort level and business efficiency of urban life. However, other aspects of such cities, including their ecological and social dimensions, have attracted limited research attention. This article describes a tree management information...
Smart Cities are a key application domain for the Internet of Things (IoT), and it is coming nearer everyday through pilot trials and deployments in various cities around the world. In Porto, Portugal, a city-wide IoT Living Lab emerged after we deployed several testbeds, e.g. harbour and a city-scale vehicular networks, and carried out various experiments with the SenseMyCity crowdsensor. In this...
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