What Every Engineer Should Know About Smart Cities offers a broad view of the concepts and technologies involved in smart cities and an ascending paradigm on how to employ technology to make urban environments smarter.

Dr. Valdemar Vicente Graciano Neto is an Associate Professor with tenure at the Informatics Institute (INF) of the Federal University of Goias (UFG) in Goiania, Brazil, since 2014. He is currently the Coordinator of the Information Systems bachelor's degree course at INF-UFG from 2021 to 2023. Dr. Valdemar holds a Ph.D. Double Degree in Computer Science and Computational Mathematics from the Institute of Mathematics and Computing Sciences of the University of Sao Paulo (ICMC-USP) and in Science and Information Technology with a focus on Informatics from the University of South Brittany, France. With over 10 years of teaching experience, he is a member of the Graduate Program in Computer Science at UFG, supervising both master's and doctoral projects.

Dr. Mohamad Kassab is an Associate Professor and a member of the graduate faculty at The Pennsylvania State University. He earned his Ph.D. and M.S. degrees in Computer Science from Concordia University in Montreal, Canada. Dr. Kassab was an affiliate Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering at Concordia University between 2010 and 2012 and a postdoctoral researcher in Software Engineering at Ecole de Technologie Superieure (ETS) in Montreal between 2011 and 2012, and a visiting scholar at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) between 2014 and 2015.

Chapter 1 Defining Smart Cities: An Overview

Chapter 2 Smart Cities and the Internet of Things: A Synergetic Partnership

Chapter 3 Smart Cities as Complex Systems: A Systems-of-Systems Approach

Chapter 4 Modeling and Simulation for Smart City Development

Chapter 5 Digital Twin for Smart Cities Transformation

Chapter 6 Blockchain for Secure and Transparent Smart City Transactions

Chapter 7 Smart Mobility for Liveable Cities: Opportunities and Challenges

Chapter 8 Building Healthy Cities with Smart Technologies

Chapter 9 Agribusiness in the Era of Smart Cities: Opportunities and Challenges

Chapter 10 A Smarter Education for a Better Future: Opportunities and Challenges

Chapter 11 Smart City in Action: A Case Study of the City of Santa Rosa, Brazil