Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 02/12/2016 - 11:40am
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) launched the 2016 Global City Teams Challenge (GCTC; see http://www.nist.gov/cps/sagc.cfm) with a kickoff meeting on November 12-13, 2015, in Gaithersburg, MD.
Traditionally, cyber-physical systems (CPS) have been built using domain-specific closed architectures with self-contained resources. This traditional approach is inadequate for smart city solutions, which are inherently multi-domain and require crossing conventional organizational and infrastructure boundaries.