Meet the editors

Ir. Ts. Dr. Anuar bin Mohamed Kassim received his bachelor's degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering in 2006 from Ehime University, Japan. At the beginning of his career, he spent two years as an R&D Engineer in the Optical Disc Drive Department in Panasonic Communications Co. Ltd, Japan. In 2010, he received a master's degree in System Innovation Engineering from Tokushima University, Japan. Later that year, he was ap-

pointed lecturer at Universiti Teknikal Malaysia Melaka and was promoted to senior lecturer in 2013 due to vast achievements in his research. In 2017, he received his doctorate in System Innovation Engineering from Tokushima University, Japan, and continued his postdoctoral work at Ghent University, Belgium. There, he worked in the field of Precision Agriculture through the FWO Odysseus project awarded by Belgium. In this position, he worked in the Site-Specific Management (SiteMan) project within the Precision Scoring Group to develop the precision measurement of soil, crop-sensing devices, geospatial mapping, and analysis. His research interests include wireless sensor networks, assistive technology, system innovation, robotics, automation, the Internet of Things (IoT), precision agriculture, and smart systems. He has also completed 25 research projects and is currently working on another 10 such projects. Finally, he has received international and national awards and filed industrial design, copyright, and patents for various products.

Lutfi Al-Sharif is currently the dean of Engineering Technology and professor of Electrical Engineering at Al-Hussein Technical University in Amman/Jordan, and jointly professor of Building Transportation Systems at the Department of Mechatronics Engineering, the University of Jordan. He received his Ph.D. in elevator traffic analysis in 1992 from the University of Manchester, U.K. He worked for 10 years for the London Underground,

United Kingdom, focusing on elevators and escalators. He has over 50 papers published in peer-reviewed journals and conferences in vertical transportation systems and is the co-inventor of four patents, coauthor of the 2nd edition of the Elevator Traffic Handbook, and author of the "Indoor Transportation" chapter in the Elsevier Encyclopaedia of Transportation.

Contents

**Section 1**

to Improve Resource Utilization

and Informal Enterprises

*by Sabyasachi Tripathi*

*by Kumar Avinash Chandra*

and Example Applications

*by Lutfi Al-Sharif*

*by Jonathan Beebe and Ahmad Hammoudeh*

**Section 2**

*by Ben Mkalama and Bitange Ndemo*

**Preface XI**

Smart Cities Framework and New Business Model **1**

**Chapter 1 3**

**Chapter 2 23**

**Chapter 3 39**

Smart Building and Architecture **51**

**Chapter 4 53**

**Chapter 5 65**

**Chapter 6 87**

Application of Advanced Framework Technology in Smart Cities

Orchestrating Smart Cities, New Disruptive Business Models

Does Smart City Development Promote Urbanization in India?

Smart Buildings: A Model Approach for Institutional Buildings

Standard Elevator Information Schema: Its Origins, Features

A Universal Methodology for Generating Elevator Passenger Origin-Destination Pairs for Calculation and Simulation

*by Kai-Chun Chu, Kuo-Chi Chang, Hsiao-Chuan Wang, Fu-Hsiang Chang, Yuh-Chung Lin and Tsui-Lien Hsu*
