Digitisation in the smart city

Digitisation in the smart city is an area of research at Linköping University. Digitisation of our cities is often held up as an important prerequisite for dealing with social challenges of increasing urbanization, climate change and globalization.

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Smart cities – more talk than action

The concept of “smart cities” is being used increasingly often within urban development. But this concept lacks a clear definition, and the way it is used depends on who is using it. These results are presented in a thesis by Malin Granath.

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Researchers

Karin Axelsson

Deputy Vice-Chancellor

Ulf Melin

Dean, Professor

Martin Rudberg

Professor, Head of Unit

Johanna Sefyrin

Associate Professor, Head of Division

Telecommunications for Smart Cities

Our research focuses on modeling and evaluating the communication and network architectures of such relevant Internet of Things deployments with applications in smart cities.

Organisation

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Information Systems and Digitalization (INDIG)

The division of Information Systems and Digitalization conducts research and offers courses at undergraduate and graduate level within the information systems area. The division is part of the Department of Management and Engineering.

Department of Management and Engineering (IEI)

The Department of Management and Engineering (IEI) strengthens and develops tomorrow’s industry, business world and society by ground-breaking research, education and innovation.

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About LiU

Linköping University, LiU, offers innovative education and boundary-crossing research. The students are among the most desirable in the labour market and international rankings consistently place LiU as a leading global university.