Sustainable Digital Technologies for Smart Cities: Healthcare, Communication, and Transportation
暫譯: 智慧城市的可持續數位技術：醫療、通信與交通

本書專注於增強智慧醫療、智慧通信和智慧交通系統的最新和新興技術。內容涵蓋機器學習技術、物聯網 (IoT)、醫療文件的安全性、在通信和交通環境中使用的各種協議的性能、實時應用系統的模擬，以及對上述內容的整體分析。書中探討的應用包括交通系統、股市預測、智慧城市和車輛通信。

特色：
- 涵蓋智慧城市的三個重要方面，即醫療保健、智慧通信與資訊，以及智慧交通技術。
- 討論醫療文件的各種安全性問題及數據保護機制。
- 提供使用物聯網技術在醫療、交通和通信系統中更好的解決方案。
- 包含實作範例、各種數據集、實驗結果和模擬程序。
- 提供各種疾病預測系統的智能技術解決方案。

本書旨在為計算機科學、電機工程和數據分析的研究人員及研究生提供參考。

L Ashok Kumar was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow from San Diego State University, California. He was selected among seven scientists in India for the BHAVAN Fellowship from the Indo-US Science and Technology Forum and also, he received SYST Fellowship from DST, Govt. of India. He has 3 years of industrial experience and 22 years of academic and research experience. He has published 173 technical papers in International and National journals and presented 167 papers in National and International Conferences. He has completed 26 Government of India funded projects worth about 15 Crores and currently 9 projects are in progress worth about 12 Crores. He has developed 27 products and out of those 23 products have been technology transferred to industries and for Government funding agencies. He has created Eight Centres of Excellence at PSG Tech in collaboration with Government agencies and Industries namely, Centre for Audio Visual Speech Recognition, Centre for Alternate Cooling Technologies, Centre for Industrial Cyber Physical Systems Research, Centre for Excellence in LV Switchgear, Centre for Renewable Energy Systems, Centre for Excellence in Solar PV Systems, Centre for Excellence in Solar Thermal Systems. His PhD work on wearable electronics earned him a National Award from ISTE, and he has received 26 awards in the National and in international level. He has guided 92 graduate and postgraduate projects. He has produced 6 PhD Scholars and 12 candidates are doing PhD under his supervision. He has visited many countries for institute industry collaboration and as a keynote speaker. He has been an invited speaker in 345 programs. Also, he has organized 102 events, including conferences, workshops, and seminars. He completed his graduate program in Electrical and Electronics Engineering from University of Madras and his post-graduate from PSG College of Technology, India, and master's in business administration from IGNOU, New Delhi. After completion of his graduate degree, he joined as project engineer for Serval Paper Boards Ltd., Coimbatore (now ITC Unit, Kovai). Presently he is working as a Professor in the Department of EEE, PSG College of Technology. He is also a Certified Charted Engineer and BSI Certified ISO 500001 2008 Lead Auditor. He has authored 19 books in his areas of interest with our various publishers as well. He has 11 patents, one Design patent and two Copyrights to his credit and also contribute 18 chapters in various books. He is also the Chairman of Indian Association of Energy Management Professionals and Executive Member in Institution of Engineers, Coimbatore, Executive Council Member in Institute of Smart Structure and Systems, Bangalore, Associate Member in CODISSIA. He is also holding prestigious positions in various national and international forums, and he is a Fellow Member in IET (UK), Fellow Member in IETE, Fellow Member in IE and Senior Member in IEEE.

R. Manivel, Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Head, Research at Kumara guru College of Technology, Coimbatore. Research areas include thermal energy storage, computational fluid dynamics with fluid surface interaction. For industries, industrial design analysis and experimental techniques in the thermal equipment applications of Engines, Blowers, Compressors, Fans., Heat Exchangers were caried out. Received research grant of 90 lakhs from Government Funding Agencies to carry out research projects in the area of Energy Storage, Automobile Radiators, Hydel Power Generation etc., He published 50 scientific papers in various proceedings, Journals. He is Fellow Member of Institution of Engineers (IE)India and Member of Combustion Institute (India)The areas of his academic interest include Energy Engineering, Modelling, Computational Fluid Dynamics and Energy Transfer and Storage. Further in the field of oil and Gas industries, the academic interests are Subsea, Valves and equipment design through ASME standards.

Eyal Ben Dor is Head of the Remote Sensing Laboratory at Tel Aviv University (RSL-TAU), the leading group in Israel for imaging spectroscopy (IS), soil spectroscopy and remote sensing applications dedicated for soil mapping and environmental monitoring. The RSL is expert in field and airborne campaigns in national and international levels and has gained significant experience to that end in many projects. The IS technology is also used by the RSL-TAU to investigate issues in medicine, veterinary, food security, civil engineering and agriculture. The RSL-TAU is responsible for more than 200 scientific papers in scientific proceedings, peer review journals and chapter books. Four patents in the IS direction for veterinary, civil engineering, soil science and contamination application are also the yield of the RSL-TAU. The areas of his academic interest include Hyperspectral remote sensing of the earth; soil spectroscopy; developing applications in many disciplines (medicine, veterinary, civil engineering, precise agriculture); generating Soil Spectral Library for the Mediterranean countries; Bilateral projects with Czech Republic (CGS), Germany (GFZ), Greece (i-BEC), Italy (CNR) and EC (EUFAR, EO-MINERS and GEO-CRADEL).

L Ashok Kumar 是來自加州聖地牙哥州立大學的博士後研究員。他在印度的七位科學家中被選中獲得印度-美國科學與技術論壇的 BHAVAN 獎學金，並且獲得了印度政府 DST 的 SYST 獎學金。他擁有三年的產業經驗和二十二年的學術及研究經驗。他在國際和國內期刊上發表了173篇技術論文，並在國內和國際會議上發表了167篇論文。他完成了26個印度政府資助的項目，總價值約為1.5億盧比，目前有9個項目正在進行中，總價值約為1.2億盧比。他開發了27個產品，其中23個產品已經轉讓給產業和政府資助機構。他在 PSG Tech 與政府機構和產業合作創建了八個卓越中心，包括：視聽語音識別中心、替代冷卻技術中心、工業網路物理系統研究中心、低壓開關設備卓越中心、可再生能源系統卓越中心、太陽能光伏系統卓越中心、太陽能熱系統卓越中心。他在可穿戴電子產品方面的博士研究獲得了 ISTE 的國家獎，並在國內和國際層面獲得了26個獎項。他指導了92個本科和研究生項目，培養了6位博士生，並有12位候選人在他的指導下攻讀博士學位。他曾多次訪問多個國家進行院校與產業的合作，並擔任主題演講者。他在345個活動中擔任受邀演講者，並組織了102個活動，包括會議、研討會和講座。他在馬德拉斯大學獲得電氣與電子工程的學士學位，並在印度 PSG 科技學院獲得碩士學位，還在新德里 IGNOU 獲得工商管理碩士學位。完成學士學位後，他在 Serval Paper Boards Ltd.（現在的 ITC 單位，Kovai）擔任項目工程師。目前，他在 PSG 科技學院的電氣與電子工程系擔任教授。他也是一名認證特許工程師和 BSI 認證的 ISO 500001 2008 首席審核員。他與多家出版商合作，撰寫了19本書籍，擁有11項專利、一項設計專利和兩項著作權，並在各種書籍中貢獻了18章。他還是印度能源管理專業人員協會的主席，並在 Coimbatore 工程師協會、班加羅爾智能結構與系統研究所的執行委員會成員、CODISSIA 的副會員等多個機構中擔任執行委員。他在多個國內和國際論壇中擔任重要職位，並且是 IET（英國）和 IETE 的院士、IE 的院士以及 IEEE 的高級會員。

R. Manivel 是 Coimbatore Kumara Guru 科技學院的機械工程教授及研究部門負責人。研究領域包括熱能儲存、計算流體力學及流體表面互動。針對產業，進行了熱設備應用於引擎、鼓風機、壓縮機、風扇及熱交換器的工業設計分析和實驗技術。他獲得了來自政府資助機構的900萬盧比研究經費，以進行能源儲存、汽車散熱器、水力發電等領域的研究項目。他在各種會議和期刊上發表了50篇科學論文。他是印度工程師協會（IE）的院士及燃燒學會（印度）的會員。他的學術興趣包括能源工程、建模、計算流體力學及能源轉移與儲存。此外，在石油和天然氣產業方面，學術興趣包括海底、閥門及設備設計，並遵循 ASME 標準。

Eyal Ben Dor 是特拉維夫大學遙感實驗室的負責人（RSL-TAU），該實驗室是以色列在成像光譜學（IS）、土壤光譜學和遙感應用方面的領先團隊，專注於土壤映射和環境監測。RSL 在國內和國際層面上擁有田野和空中活動的專業知識，並在許多項目中積累了豐富的經驗。RSL-TAU 也利用 IS 技術研究醫學、獸醫、食品安全、土木工程和農業等問題。RSL-TAU 負責超過200篇科學論文的發表，包括科學會議、同行評審期刊和書籍章節。RSL-TAU 也在獸醫、土木工程、土壤科學和污染應用方面獲得了四項 IS 方向的專利。他的學術興趣包括地球的高光譜遙感、土壤光譜學、在多個學科（醫學、獸醫、土木工程、精準農業）中開發應用、為地中海國家生成土壤光譜庫，以及與捷克共和國（CGS）、德國（GFZ）、希臘（i-BEC）、意大利（CNR）和歐盟（EUFAR、EO-MINERS 和 GEO-CRADEL）進行雙邊項目。