Smart Cities

This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the 8th Ibero-American Congress on Smart Cities, ICSC-Cities 2025, held in Puebla, México, during November 10-12, 2025.

The 29 full papers included in these volumes were carefully reviewed and selected from 134 submissions. They were organized in the following topical sections: Internet of Things and Big Data; Computational Intelligence for Smart Cities; Optimization, Smart Industry, and Smart Public Services; and Innovative Approaches for Smart Cities.

. - Internet of Things and Big Data.

. - Enhancing Solar Energy Research: A Database Approach for Photovoltaic Laboratories.

. - Smart meter based on demand forecasting for real-time architecture.

. - IoT-Driven Smart Mobility: Enhancing Urban Transportation Efficiency with AI and Big Data.

. - Inspection of Land Surface Temperature Estimation Methods contrasted to in-situ Measurements: A Case Study in Panama.

. - IoT platform for detecting pavement irregularities on urban roads.

. - Flood analysis using remote sensing and cloud computing: a WebGIS tool for urban flood management.

. - Design and Implementation of a Low-Cost IoT Air-Quality Monitoring Network at Queen Mary University of London Mile End Campus.

. - Computational intelligence for smart cities.

. - Forecasting of Hospital Cardiovascular Emergency Demand in the Dominican Republic Using Time Series and Machine Learning Models.

. - Neural networks for modeling and predicting pollution in urban environments.

. - Estimation model for arrival times in urban public transportation of Cuernavaca using artificial neural networks.

. - Traffic sign detection for autonomous driving at 1:10 scale a YOLO approach.

. - Clustering Algorithm for Crack Detection on 2D Surfaces: Analysis of Its Dependence on Simulated Surface Size.

. - Clustering techniques to improve the prediction of the THD index for poorly correlated predictor variables.

. - Optimization, smart industry, and smart public services.

. - Evolutionary algorithms for the optimization of irrigation systems.

. - A biobjective model for the bins allocation and collection routing problem in waste management.

. - A multiobjective evolutionary algorithm for the bus stops location problem: optimizing demand coverage, travel times, and operational costs.

. - A Q-learning approach for long-term hydrothermal dispatch.

. - Electric Vehicles based Microgrid for Demand Response Studies using a Stochastic Algorithm.

. - Implementation of a Metaheuristic based on K-means and Ant Colony Optimization.

. - Intelligent Operation of BESS for Active and Reactive Power Management in AC Microgrids Using the Crow Search Optimizer.

. - An smart industry study approach in photovoltaic panels and FEM design.

. - Brazilian Bus Transport Efficiency: A Simar-Wilson DEA with Beta-Tobit Analysis.

. - Innovative approaches for smart cities.

. - Quantum-resilient smart cities: Cryptographic strategies and implementation challenge.

. - A biobjective model for task assignment with multi-skilled workers and customer deadlines in service companies.

. - QR-based traceability system for avocado production in Mexico.

. - Optimal Dispatch in a Multinodal AC Microgrid Model with Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) and Solid-State Transformer (SST).

. - Neural Network Approach for Super-resolution of a Digital Elevation Model.

. - Eddies as indicators of local sargassum inundation risks on the south coast of Dominican Republic.

. - Towards timely detection of student stress and anxiety.