Embracing modern technologies and urban development trends : Initial evaluation of a smart city enterprise architecture frameworks

• The development of smart cities becomes increasingly reliant on leveraging modern technologies such as Internet of Things (IoT), big data, cloud computing, and Artificial Intelligence (AI). While the importance of applying such technologies has been widely recognized, they might not have been effectively discussed in the early design phase. As a widely applied planning and architecting tool, traditional Enterprise Architecture Frameworks (EAF) are not always able to meet requirements of urban development in an expected way. This might be alleviated by applying a smart city-oriented EAF which supports discussion of modern techniques in the early design phase. In the EU smart city project +CityxChange, an EAF was proposed to address such issues. In this article, we focus on an initial evaluation of the EAF proposed in the +CityxChange project according to the Design Science Research (DSR) method. We discuss how the EAF has enhanced the widely used EAF (i.e., The Open Group Architecture Framework, TOGAF for short) by extending its layer-based Enterprise Architecture (EA). We also present a sample scenario demonstrating how the EAF can be used. 

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NATURVETENSKAP  -- Data- och informationsvetenskap -- Annan data- och informationsvetenskap (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Computer and Information Sciences -- Other Computer and Information Science (hsv//eng)

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Data management

Enterprise Architecture Framework

Physical infrastructure

Service management

Smart cities

TOGAF

Urban development

Information systems

Information use

Internet of things

Urban growth

Design science researches (DSR)

Early design phase

Enterprise Architecture

Enterprise architecture frameworks (EAF)

Internet of Things (IOT)

Modern techniques

Modern technologies

Open group architecture frameworks

Smart city

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