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Course Name	Turkish	Akıllı Şehirler için Sayısal Çözümler
	English	Digital Solutions for Smart Cities
Course Code	BLG 556E	Credit	Lecture (hour/week)	Recitation (hour/week)	Laboratory (hour/week)
Semester	2	3	3	-	-
Course Language		English
Course Coordinator		Sema Fatma Oktuğ
Course Objectives		1. To introduce the telecommunication technologies employed in cities in order to make them smarter. 2. To introduce sensor networks and their use in smart city applications. 3. To teach graph and queue based models for smart city applications. 4. To teach how to apply data mining models on the data collected from the sensors in cities. 5. To introduce the smart city applications for the citizens.
Course Description		Introduction - Smart Cities, Related telecommunication Technologies, Working principles of sensors and the related systems, Big data generated by the sensors of smart cities, Modelling by using graphs and queues, IoT (Internet of Things) and related applications, Visualizing sensor data. Mapping sensor data, Sensing location, Privacy and security issues, Smart health systems, Smart traffic management, Smart waste management, Smart water management, Software platforms for smart cities,
Course Outcomes		1. Ability to understand the use of smart technologies in urban infrastructure systems. 2. Ability to work with the telecommunication, sensor and smart infrastructures that are used in cities. 3. Ability to benefit from the big data collected in cities in order to develop smart city applications. 4. Ability to understand the problems encountered in a city and introduce smart solutions. 5. Ability to develop/design smart applications for a city. 6. Ability to propose applications for sustainable cities.
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Textbook		[1] Smart Cities: Big Data, Civic Hackers, and the Quest for a New Utopia,2013 [2] The New Science of Cities, Michael Batty, MIT Press, Nov. 2013.
Other References		Papers from the related journals and conferences.

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