Considerations Regarding E-services development platforms for Smart Cities

Smart Cities strategies are based on Information and Communication Technologies, (ITC) to fulfill the requirements of an intelligent urban community and environment. Many of these features are provided to the citizens and economic agents through adequate e-services, which are developed using software platforms which are specific for Smart Cities. These platforms offer to programmers various ITC tools for designing, development, managing and providing applications and e-service for Smart Cities. Often such software deploying facilities are integrated within a middleware, together with the features provided by mobile and wireless communication networks. This paper presents basic architectures of software development platforms, Service Oriented Architectures (SOA), their usage in Smart city projects and, also, some of their limitations. Based on these characteristics, several considerations regarding Smart City platforms use cases and aoolication results are highlighted.