Smart City Software Revolution - Blackboard Systems for Smart City Solutions

This paper examines the possibilities and requirements of using the blackboard software system in the context of a smart city. Using Unreal Engine 4, a virtual smart city was developed to test the capabilities and difficulties which would accompany the use of the blackboard. A number of simulations were run to generate insight regarding the viability of implementing the blackboard in a real-world setting. The tasks that the blackboard attempted addressed the following goals: a weather reaction system; a parking space availability system; and a daylight reaction system. An autonomous car running on preset routes was implemented in two separate ways to compare the performance between a blackboard system and blueprints.