Research List

Reference architectural models are coherent representations/blueprints of the interaction existing between homogeneous/heterogeneous groups of systems, technologies, and users in complex business domains. Due to its complexity, the smart city domain should embrace a reference architectural model which facilitates coherent capabilities of the interacting application, and infrastructure’s capabilities in a certain [...]

This is a research in progress study that explores the extent in which the public and private sectors’ collaboration in the area of cloud computing is contributing to the expansion of the digital entrepreneurial ecosystem for smart cities. More specifically, we focus on the case study of the public sector’s [...]

The paper introduces an innovative, open source cloud platform for the efficient, knowledge-based, sustainable and inclusive development of urban parks – Bahrain Parks, developed at the University of Bahrain. We describe the local context at the genesis of the initiative, its components, and the rationale for the creation of a [...]

Smart cities era requires changes in the life style of the citizens technically and technologically. Mobility is one of the main domains in smart cities, hence, transportation is the area of focus in this research. Embedding Radio Frequency Identification RFID tags into all vehicles driving in the Kingdom of Bahrain [...]

Collecting, transport, disposal, and managing Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) within urban context is a challenge worldwide. It directly impacts; environmental, health and economic aspects of modern and smart urban cities. MSW transport is the most expensive item in MSW management and in some cases might take up most of the [...]

Consumer electronic device control is one of the key challenges in smart cities development. This paper introduces the design and hardware implementation of smart energy management systems to be applied for Bahrain smart cities development. The system is capable of monitoring the energy consumed by the appliances, and accordingly limits [...]

As an application of quantum information in Smart Cities, we introduce a technique to freeze the accelerated information and consequently it is protected during the communication between the Smart Cities’ users. It is assumed that, the two users share different dimension sizes of particles. The technique depends on local operations, [...]

Nowadays, home-based health care systems are becoming one of the most important issues in smart city applications. The statistical data of death reasons in Bahrain reveals relatively high percentages of deaths from diabetic disease (15%) and heart complications (16%). The authors of this paper propose a framework for developing a [...]

From modern urban perspectives, indigenous housing practices are regarded as undeveloped, backward, and require improvements. They may be valid for measuring on the basis of standards alien to the communities. However, these perceptions have obfuscated the appreciation and potential adoption of holistic, culturally relevant, and traditionally tested approaches to planning [...]

One of the key issues associated to mineral carbonation is the slow kinetic rate of leaching process. Hence it is highly important to study the kinetics of the leaching process in detail. This paper deals with the detailed analytical and statistical studies of calcium leaching from waste concrete sample. For [...]