Topics of interest to the Smart Mobility track include (but are not limited to):

• Autonomous vehicles: perception, localization, and mapping
• Multi-sensor fusion and perception for Smart Transportation
• Night vision perception in challenging environments
• Scene understanding and 2D/3D object detection
• Driver behavior monitoring and modelling
• Multimodal transportation and Mobility as a Service (MaaS)
• Advanced ICT infrastructure for Smart Transportation
• Mixed-Autonomy Road Traffic Management
• 5G/6G enabled Vehicular Communications
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) enabled Smart Transportation
• Communication technologies for connected and autonomous vehicles in Land, Water and Sky
• Electric vehicles and transportation electrification
• Simulation and modelling for Smart Transportation

Topics of interest to the Smart Health and Wellbeing track include (but are not limited to):

• Smart devices and sensors for smart healthcare
• Communications and protocols for smart healthcare
• Smart healthcare realizations and platforms
• Intelligent transportation systems for smart healthcare
• Context-aware environments for healthcare
• Artificial Intelligence for smart healthcare
• Smart healthcare for the elderly
• Scalability, performance, and reliability of smart healthcare applications
• Pervasive wireless communications for assisted living
• Standards for smart healthcare
• Energy Efficiency in wireless health monitoring
• Pervasive healthcare systems and services
• Ethics, confidentiality, privacy, and data security for smart healthcare
• Smart health data analytics and predictions
• Smart health data dissemination within heterogeneous wireless devices
• End-to-end QoS within heterogeneous smart devices for healthcare
• Smart rehabilitation
• Remote patient monitoring and custom services
• Biomedical technologies and prosthetics

Topics of interest to the Smart Infrastructure and Integrated Energy Systems track include (but are not limited to):

• Smart and Integrated grid
• Clean energy generation, distribution and management (including solar, wind, thermal, bio, wave, hydro etc)
• Integration of distributed energy resources
• TSO-DSO network management and coordination
• Local energy systems and networks (Energy communities, microgrids, virtual power plant etc)
• Energy storage (thermal, electrical, hydrogen, others)
• Advance metering infrastructure
• Smart charging of electric vehicles plus V2G technologies
• Demand-side response and energy flexibility
• Multi-energy systems and sector coupling
• Business models (including Aggregators)
• Market design and governance (Retail, Wholesale; Cross-border; Ancillary services; Flexibility markets)
• Smart waste management and circular economy
• District heating and cooling

Topics of interest to the Smart Services and IoT track include (but are not limited to):

• 5G/6G Networks for IoT and Smart Services
• Edge-Fog-Cloud Computing Architecture for IoT and Smart Services
• IoT and Robots Network Architectures, Frameworks, and Applications for Smart Cities
• Information Fusion Technology for IoT at the Edg
• Lightweight Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML) for IoT
• Lightweight Blockchain Technology for IoT
• Load Balancing and Job Scheduling in IoT Environments
• Location-based Smart Services
• Microservices Architecture for IoT
• Planning, construction, and operation of IoT and Smart Services for Smart Cities
• Smart Campuses/Community Services
• Smart Mobile Crowd Sensing at the Edge
• Software and IoT Infrastructure of brand-new smart city
• Trusted Platform Module (TMP) Design and Application for IoT
• Trust, Security, and Privacy in IoT and Smart Environments
• UAV for Smart Services for Delivery and Logistics
• Ultra-Low-Power IoT Systems
• Wearable/Portable Devices/Systems for IoT and Smart Services

Topics of interest to the Smart Data and AI track include (but are not limited to):

• AI-based applications for smart cities
• AI-based big data analysis for smart cities
• AI-based cloud computing for smart cities
• AI-based communications Security
• AI-based protocols and services for smart cities
• Big data analytics for smart cities
• Big data analytics for Smart Cities Security
• Big data-based prediction for smart cities
• Big data clustering
• Big data security and privacy for smart cities
• Blockchain and distributed ledgers
• Deep learning for big data
• Distributed AI algorithms
• Distributed reasoning for IoT
• Edge AI
• Ethical and legal implications of AI within a smart city
• Federated learning
• Interpretable Machine learning for smart cities
• Machine learning for analysis of big data
• Mathematics of big data
• Natural language processing and entity extraction in linked open data
• Optimization for smart cities
• Predictive and pattern modelling on open linked data
• Robotics systems and applications
• Software as service (SaaS), utility computing, shared services
• Tools of big data processing

Topics of the Smart Security and Privacy for Smart Cities track would include (but not limited to):

• Secure and resilient Human-in-the-loop 5G and Beyond architectures for smart cities
• Privacy in human-intense 5G and Beyond communications in smart cities
• Blockchain and distributed ledger-based solutions for smart city services
• Resilient and secure human-intense network services
• Threat modeling and defensive strategies for user-centric service and network management
• User experience and perception in resilient SDN/NFV enabled systems for smart city applications
• Citizen data confidentiality and privacy-preserving user-behavior analysis
• User’ perception for interactive security and privacy mechanisms
• SDN/NFV-based resilient smart city service orchestration
  Secure multi-access and multi-radio Access Technologies and Orchestration
• Big data analytics and machine learning for secure flexible mobile service steering
  Privacy-aware advanced smart metering solutions
• Economic implications and policies on security and privacy in smart cities and spaces
• Security, privacy and resilience schemes for connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) and Internet of Things (IoTs)
• Advanced security measures for smart utilities
• smart-identification and personal security

Topics of interest to the Empowering Citizens for Smart Communities and Cities include (but are not limited to):

• Consumers’ empowerment,
• Smart Energy Communities evolution and MS policy impact,
• Smart RES Infrastructures adaptation (solar PV, storage, EV charging, other)
• Shared renewable infrastructures (generation, storage, other shared services)
• Regulation and policy
• Future energy sharing, markets, peer-to-peer trading, community self-consumption, transactive energy
• Citizen engagement in smart communities and cities,
• Municipal government enabling models and solutions
• Regional government enabling models and solutions
• Social campaigns and social studies (related to societal acceptance
• and environmental sustainability of energy infrastructures)
• Adaptive consumer/user behaviour including energy communities
• Urban/Rural planning for citizen-centric smart cities,
• Smart Education,
  • information dissemination
  • services co-creation
• Smart home, device control and home energy management system, integration with community services
• Reaching carbon neutrality pathways towards home and community solutions
• Business models, including cross sector and cross solutions (ie mobility)
• Citizens science and energy communities
• Grid interfacing demand flexibility services
• Integrated smart communities from generation, to monitoring, to collective services

Topics of interest to the ICT and Digitalization Track include (but are not limited to):

• Data and Information Management (ICT technologies and platforms, open-source platforms, software etc)
• Sustainable services, platforms for sustainable cities,
• Smart city governance,
• Sustainable urban development,
• Sustainability models,
• ICT applications for sustainable cities.
• Protocols, standardisation and interoperability
• ICT for Data Communication (Data acquisition, Smart Meter, Monitoring, AMR, smart devices etc)
• Cybersecurity (vulnerabilities, failures, risks) and privacy
• End-to-end architecture (integrating market, automation, control, data acquisition, digital twin, end-users)

Topics of interest to the Digital Twins for Smarter Buildings Track include (but are not limited to):

• Smart buildings,
• Smart sensors,
• Digital twins,
• Building Information Modelling,
• Smart Readiness Indicators,
• Operational building rating,
• Digital building logbooks,
• GIS,
• Building Management Systems.
• EDGE computing for smart buildings and RES generation

Topics of interest to the Observability in smart cities include (but are not limited to):

• Smart city platforms
• IoT and robots monitoring in smart cities
• Smart City KPI monitoring
• Smart city data and AI-driven analytics
• Smart city infrastructure
• Observability with AI
• Anomaly detection in smart city systems
• Fault localization and root cause analysis
• Predictive and proactive service management
• Automation for remediation and mitigation
• Security and compliance
• Energy efficiency of smart city services
• Continuous improvement for smart city services

Topics of interest to the General Track include (but are not limited to):

• Smart city theory, modeling and simulation
• Intelligent infrastructure
• Sensors and actuators
• Smart economy development
• Smart emergency management
• Smart environment and policy development
• Environmental capital reduction
• Digital city and smart growth
• Smart buildings
• Smart city implementation
• Smart city for special needs
• Smart manufacturing and logistics
• Environmental monitoring technologies
• Smart energy solutions for water treatment, purification, desalination, food processing etc