A citizen-centric approach towards global-scale smart city platform

In order to help smart cities to provide responsive services to improve the quality of life of their citizens, a global-scale platform relying on Cloud computing as an enabler to bridge the Internet of Things with Internet of People via Internet of Services, is presented in this paper. This platform will focus on a citizen-centric approach, offering to end-users the possibility of creating their own Cloud services and share them with other citizens, as well as involving other city stakeholders ranging from municipalities to service developers and application integrators. The definition, design and development of the aforementioned platform has been carried out within ClouT project (still ongoing), framed into a joint European-Japanese initiative, where different field trials developed on top of the developed platform, have been deployed in the four cities that take part of the project: Mitaka and Fujisawa in Japan, and Santander and Genova in Europe.