Julius Golej

Smart City 360

The rapid development of the Internet of Things (IoT) has provided innovative solutions to reduce traffic accidents caused by fatigue driving. When drivers are in bad mood or tired, their vigilance level decreases, which may prolong the reaction time to emergency situation and lead to serious accidents. With the help of mobile sensing and mood-fatigue detection, drivers’ moodfatigue status can be detected while driving, and then appropriate measures can be taken to eliminate the fatigue or negative mood to increase the level of vigi‐ lance. This paper presents the basic concepts and current solutions of moodfatigue detection and some common solutions like mobile sensing and cloud computing techniques. After that, we introduce some emerging platforms which designed to promote safe driving. Finally, we summarize the major challenges in mood-fatigue detection of drivers, and outline the future research directions.

Bratislava Towards Achieving the Concept of Smart City: Inspirations from Smart City Vienna

The concept of smart cities arose against the background of economic and technological changes caused by processes of integration and globalization, which European cities have been forced to face common challenges in the context of competitiveness and sustainable development. These challenges have an observable impact on issues related to the quality of the urban environment such as housing, complete urban infrastructure, commercial sector and their environmental impact. This concept thus includes the overall quality of urban life through the built and unbuilt urban environment, urban economy, social environment, urban culture, human and social capital and participation of citizens in government and the city. In this paper authors are trying to outline the problematic areas of Bratislava to achieve Smart City concept, whereby they take inspiration from the neighboring city of Vienna, which in turn is considered as one of the top smart cities in Europe.

Energy-Efficient Buildings in Slovakia: Green Atrium

Power management is very necessary, as well as the environment. Construction of low energy and passive houses, however, both of these requirements can be fulfilled. Project Green Atrium is the first passive apartment building in Slovakia that meets the requirements for passive buildings. In many cases also it achieved superior results as desired. Exceptional properties of Green Atrium have been achieved through these parameters: heat consumption for heating, heat transfer coefficient of walls and infiltration through leaks of building.

Smart Infrastructure in Bratislava

After the fall of former political regime in Slovakia in 1989, Bratislava has undergone many dynamic developing changes that were not too positively influenced the appearance and functions of the city. Spontaneous and unsystematic development in this period seems to continue even after 25 years. Conversely, a significant decline is becoming increasingly marked in the urban infrastructure, of which insufficient attention is paid. This is because infrastructure for developers is often only enforced expenditure and the city does not have sufficient financial resources to meet requirements on its renewal. Moreover, the infrastructure requirements from before 30 years are now heavily modified and it is currently inadequate and capacity insufficient. Here we can mention for example a significant parking problems in many parts of Bratislava mainly caused by the substantial increase in the level of motorization to the period when the present transportation infrastructure was planned. Of course, in Bratislava there are also some positive examples, to which the authors of this paper focuses, that are currently considered significant by the fact that towards the Bratislava closer to the concept of Smart City. In these selected examples it is also important the implementation of existing ICT technologies that form an integral part of the modern Smart Cities. The Aim of the paper is also propose improvements to the current solutions.