Smart City Dashboards: Design, Development, and Evaluation

A smart city dashboard is an application that is capable of retrieving historical and real-time data from different sources and visualizing data through different graphical and interactive techniques, and also to act on data storage and IOT devices. To ensure interoperability with various IoT protocols and devices, we have developed Snap4City Dashboard Builder, one-of-a-kind tool that is then used to create multiple smart city dashboards. This paper briefly discusses the tool we developed and presents a thorough evaluation of the tool, followed by description of ten dashboards created using the builder and summary of our extensive assessment of these dashboards. The evaluation indicates that our dashboard builder is powerful and the dashboards are very helpful for city officials.