Internet of Things: Applications and challenges in smart cities: a case study of IBM smart city projects

Business Process Management Journal

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 357-367

  Scuotto, Veronica ^a   Ferraris, Alberto ^b,c   Bresciani, Stefano ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF SCOTLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TURIN   (Italy)

^c URAL FEDERAL UNIVERSITY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

IBM; Internet of Things; Open innovation; Smart city

Indexed keywords

EID: 84961616433     PISSN: 14637154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/BPMJ-05-2015-0074     Document Type: Article

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