Jorge F Hernandez1
, Victor M Larios 1
, Manuel Avalos1
and Ignacio Silva-Lepe2
1Department of Information Systems, CUCEA, UDG Guadalajara, Mexico
2Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY USA Research, New York,
USA
Sustainability, appropriate use of natural resources and providing a better quality of life for citizens has
become a prerequisite to change the traditional concept of a smart city. A smart city needs to use latest
generation Information Technologies, IT, and hardware to improve services and data, to offer to create a
balanced environment between the ecosystem and inhabitants. This paper analyses the advantages of using
a private cloud architecture to share hardware and software resources when it is required. Our case study
is Guadalajara, which has nine municipalities and each one monitor’s air quality. Each municipality has a
set of servers to process information independently and consists of information systems for the transmission
and storage of data with other municipalities. We analysed the behaviour of the carbon footprint during the
years1999-2013 and we observed a pattern in each season. Thus our proposal requires municipalities to
use a cloud-based solution that allows managing and consolidating infrastructure to minimize maintenance
costs and electricity consumption to reduce carbon footprint generated by the city.
KEYWORDS
Smart Cities; Cloud Architectures; Cost Estimation; City Services
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