IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine - March 2018 - 3

Notes from the Editor

Smart Technologies: The Key
for Sustainable Smart Cities
By Saraju P. Mohanty

remember the kind help I received
from Emeritus Editor-in-Chief (EiC)
Dr. Peter Corcoran, who featured the
smart-cities article I authored (and
which appeared as the cover article) in
the July 2016 issue of IEEE Consumer Electronics Magazine. I became the
EiC with the October 2016 issue and
began driving the magazine to the next
level, after it was given a strong start
by Dr. Corcoran. The smart-cities article, "Everything You Wanted to Know
About Smart Cities," has been very influential in the global community, evident by the 5,500 downloads to date in
IEEE Xplore. That motivated me to
deliver my IEEE Distinguished Lecture
[broadcast as an IEEE Consumer Electronics (CE) Society webinar] on smart
cities, which I made available on
LinkedIn and has since been viewed
2,500 times.
Based on this experience, I have
dedicated this issue's theme to the
smart technologies required to realize
sustainable smart cities. I sincerely
hope the January 2018 issue, which
focused on smart health care, an important component of smart cities, was
informative for our readers. As discussed in the smart-cities article, the
Internet of Things (IoT) is the backbone of smart cities. The IoT provides
instrumentation, interconnection, and
intelligence capabilities to smart cities.
While the IoT is the technology that

Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/MCE.2017.2776439
Date of publication: 8 February 2018

Hong Kong Chapter is discussed in
this article.

The smart-cities article,
"Everything You Wanted
to Know About Smart
Cities," has been very
influential in the
global community.

CONSUMER-CENTRIC INTERNET
OF THINGS
The author reports on the invited lecture session of the CE Society Malaysia
Chapter held at Manipal International
University, Malaysia.

makes smart cities possible, the associated or related technologies, such as
physical infrastructure, electrical infrastructure, electronics, communication
infrastructure, information technology
infrastructure, and software, make smart
cities happen. It is a matter of design
and operation cost tradeoffs to have a
proper mix of smart technologies so
that smart cities are not overly smart
but rather sufficiently smart to be sustainable for years to come.

IN THIS ISSUE
SOCIETY NEWS
IEEE BRAIN INITIATIVE
2017 CHALLENGES

YOUNG PROFESSIONALS EVENT
AT GCCE 2017
This article presents the Young Professionals event at the sixth Global Conference on Consumer Electronics, held
in October in Nagoya, Japan.

CONFERENCE REPORTS
2017 IEEE INTERNATIONAL
CONFERENCE ON CONSUMER
ELECTRONICS-TAIWAN
The IEEE International Conference on
Consumer Electronics-Taiwan, held at
the National Taipei University of Technology in June 2017, is discussed in
this article. The conference theme was
VR/AR Consumer Electronics: From
Dreams to Reality.

This article presents the details of the
first IEEE Brain Initiative 2017 Challenge, which was held in St. Petersburg, Russia.

FUTURE DIRECTIONS

HONG KONG CHAPTER
ORGANIZES SUCCESSFUL
SMART-CITY WORKSHOP

The authors present a simplified,
brief introduction of the blockchain,
which has been receiving much attention for its various applications in
smart cities.

A one-day workshop on smart cities that
was conducted by the IEEE CE Society

THE BLOCKCHAIN AS A
DECENTRALIZED SECURITY
FRAMEWORK

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