Esam A. AlQaralleh¹, Fahad Aldhaban², Halah Nasseif², Bassam A.Y. Alqaralleh^2,*, Tamer AbuKhalil³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.3, pp. 5727-5740, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.026780 - 21 April 2022

Abstract Recent technological advancements have been used to improve the quality of living in smart cities. At the same time, automated detection of vehicles can be utilized to reduce crime rate and improve public security. On the other hand, the automatic identification of vehicle license plate (LP) character becomes an essential process to recognize vehicles in real time scenarios, which can be achieved by the exploitation of optimal deep learning (DL) approaches. In this article, a novel hybrid metaheuristic optimization based deep learning model for automated license plate character recognition (HMODL-ALPCR) technique has been presented for… More >

Adel D. Rajab^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.1, pp. 2077-2092, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.025736 - 24 February 2022

Abstract In the Internet of Things (IoT)-based smart city applications, employing the Data Collectors (DC) as the data brokers between the nodes and Base Station (BS) can be a promising solution to enhance the energy efficiency of energy-constrained IoT sensor nodes. There are several schemes that utilize mobile DCs to collect the data packets from sensor nodes. However, moving DCs along the hundreds of thousands of sensors sparsely distributed across a smart city is considered a design challenge in such schemes. Another concern lies in how these mobile DCs are being powered. Therefore, to overcome these… More >

Mahmoud Ragab^1,2,3,*, Ali Altalbe¹, Abdullah Saad Al-Malaise ALGhamdi⁴, S. Abdel-khalek^5,6, Rashid A. Saeed⁷

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.72, No.1, pp. 365-380, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.024932 - 24 February 2022

Abstract The smart city comprises various interlinked elements which communicate data and offers urban life to citizen. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) or drones were commonly employed in different application areas like agriculture, logistics, and surveillance. For improving the drone flying safety and quality of services, a significant solution is for designing the Internet of Drones (IoD) where the drones are utilized to gather data and people communicate to the drones of a specific flying region using the mobile devices is for constructing the Internet-of-Drones, where the drones were utilized for collecting the data, and communicate with More >

Mesfer Al Duhayyim¹, Taiseer Abdalla Elfadil Eisa², Fahd N. Al-Wesabi^3,4, Abdelzahir Abdelmaboud⁵, Manar Ahmed Hamza^6,*, Abu Sarwar Zamani⁶, Mohammed Rizwanullah⁶, Radwa Marzouk^7,8

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.71, No.3, pp. 5699-5715, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.024431 - 14 January 2022

Abstract The Smart City concept revolves around gathering real time data from citizen, personal vehicle, public transports, building, and other urban infrastructures like power grid and waste disposal system. The understandings obtained from the data can assist municipal authorities handle assets and services effectually. At the same time, the massive increase in environmental pollution and degradation leads to ecological imbalance is a hot research topic. Besides, the progressive development of smart cities over the globe requires the design of intelligent waste management systems to properly categorize the waste depending upon the nature of biodegradability. Few of… More >

Anwer Mustafa Hilal¹, Badria Sulaiman Alfurhood², Fahd N. Al-Wesabi^3,4, Manar Ahmed Hamza^1,*, Mesfer Al Duhayyim⁵, Huda G. Iskandar^4,6

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.71, No.1, pp. 143-157, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.021502 - 03 November 2021

Abstract Smart city promotes the unification of conventional urban infrastructure and information technology (IT) to improve the quality of living and sustainable urban services in the city. To accomplish this, smart cities necessitate collaboration among the public as well as private sectors to install IT platforms to collect and examine massive quantities of data. At the same time, it is essential to design effective artificial intelligence (AI) based tools to handle healthcare crisis situations in smart cities. To offer proficient services to people during healthcare crisis time, the authorities need to look closer towards them. Sentiment… More >

Manar Ahmed Hamza^1,*, Haya Mesfer Alshahrani², Fahd N. Al-Wesabi^3,4, Mesfer Al Duhayyim⁵, Anwer Mustafa Hilal¹, Hany Mahgoub³

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.70, No.3, pp. 5835-5853, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.021059 - 11 October 2021

Abstract With recent advances made in Internet of Vehicles (IoV) and Cloud Computing (CC), the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) find it advantageous in terms of improvement in quality and interactivity of urban transportation service, mitigation of costs incurred, reduction in resource utilization, and improvement in traffic management capabilities. Many traffic-related problems in future smart cities can be sorted out with the incorporation of IoV in transportation. IoV communication enables the collection and distribution of real-time essential data regarding road network condition. In this scenario, energy-efficient and reliable intercommunication routes are essential among vehicular nodes in sustainable… More >

R. Gopi^1,*, P. Muthusamy², P. Suresh³, C. G. Gabriel Santhosh Kumar⁴, Irina V. Pustokhina⁵, Denis A. Pustokhin⁶, K. Shankar⁷

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.70, No.3, pp. 4883-4896, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.019442 - 11 October 2021

Abstract Smart City Healthcare (SHC²) system is applied in monitoring the patient at home while it is also expected to react to their needs in a timely manner. The system also concedes the freedom of a patient. IoT is a part of this system and it helps in providing care to the patients. IoT-based healthcare devices are trustworthy since it almost certainly recognizes the potential intensifications at very early stage and alerts the patients and medical experts to such an extent that they are provided with immediate care. Existing methodologies exhibit few shortcomings in terms of computational… More >

T. Vetriselvi¹, E. Laxmi Lydia², Sachi Nandan Mohanty^3,4, Eatedal Alabdulkreem⁵, Shaha Al-Otaibi⁶, Amal Al-Rasheed⁶, Romany F. Mansour^7,*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.70, No.1, pp. 2049-2064, 2022, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2022.020110 - 07 September 2021

Abstract Smart city-aspiring urban areas should have a number of necessary elements in place to achieve the intended objective. Precise controlling and management of traffic conditions, increased safety and surveillance, and enhanced incident avoidance and management should be top priorities in smart city management. At the same time, Vehicle License Plate Number Recognition (VLPNR) has become a hot research topic, owing to several real-time applications like automated toll fee processing, traffic law enforcement, private space access control, and road traffic surveillance. Automated VLPNR is a computer vision-based technique which is employed in the recognition of automobiles… More >

Mohammad Al Mojamed^*

Computer Systems Science and Engineering, Vol.40, No.1, pp. 259-272, 2022, DOI:10.32604/csse.2022.018458 - 26 August 2021

Abstract The Long-Range Wide Area Network (LoRaWAN) is one of the used communication systems that serve and enables the deployment of the Internet of Things (IoT), which occasionally transmit small size data. As part of the Low Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN), LoRaWAN is characterized by its ability for low power consumption. In addition, it is built to provide more extended coverage and higher capacity with minimum cost. In this paper, we investigate the feasibility and scalability of LoRaWAN for the Mina area using a realistic network model. Mina, known as the world’s largest tent city,… More >

Yonghun Jang, Chang-Hyeon Park, Dong-Gun Lee, Yeong-Seok Seo^*

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.69, No.3, pp. 3563-3579, 2021, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2021.018901 - 24 August 2021

Abstract Following the development of communication techniques and smart devices, the era of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and big data has arrived. The increased connectivity, referred to as hyper-connectivity, has led to the development of smart cities. People in these smart cities can access numerous online contents and are always connected. These developments, however, also lead to a lack of standardization and consistency in the propagation of information throughout communities due to the consumption of information through social media channels. Information cannot often be verified, which can confuse the users. The increasing influence of social media has… More >