The 7th IEEE Conference on Smart Cities and Innovative Systems will be held within the IEEE CiSt’2027 international congress the week of 09th - 15th October 2027, Tetouan - Martil, Morocco. 

The Conference addresses the technologies, systems and methods that enable smart, sustainable and resilient cities and territories. It focuses on the integration of embedded and sensing systems, pervasive connectivity, edge-cloud computing, data platforms and artificial intelligence into city-scale cyber-physical infrastructures. These systems must also be trustworthy, energy-efficient, interoperable and compliant with emerging regulation. SCIS welcomes original contributions spanning enabling hardware, novel architectures and real-world deployments, in urban, peri-urban and rural contexts.

We solicit submissions of original ideas and papers describing results and developments from both researchers and practitioners in fields addressing directions in the following interdisciplinary topics:

1- Embedded Systems and Sensing Infrastructure

• Ultra-low-power embedded and microelectronic system design, including heterogeneous edge hardware

• Battery-less, energy-harvesting and ambient IoT devices

• Distributed sensing for environmental, structural and water monitoring, with sensor calibration and data quality assessment

• Hardware-software co-design for resource-constrained edge intelligence

2- Connectivity and Edge-Cloud Continuum

• LPWAN, 5G RedCap and massive IoT connectivity at city scale

• 5G-Advanced/6G, integrated sensing and communication (ISAC) and non-terrestrial networks for territorial coverage

• Private networks, Open RAN and network slicing for urban services

• Orchestration, offloading and resource management across the edge-cloud continuum

3- Urban Data, AI and Digital Twins

• Urban and local digital twins: modelling, simulation, synchronisation and what-if analysis

• Edge AI, TinyML and federated learning for urban sensing and control

• Data spaces, semantic interoperability and open standards (e.g., NGSI-LD, oneM2M, OGC)

• Geospatial analytics and Earth observation for territorial intelligence

4- Smart Mobility and Logistics

• Intelligent transportation systems and data-driven traffic management

• C-V2X, cooperative, connected and automated mobility

• Multimodal mobility, Mobility-as-a-Service and micromobility

• Urban logistics, last-mile delivery and UAV-based services

5- Energy and Environmental Systems

• Smart grids, microgrids and distributed renewable integration

• Energy communities, demand response and vehicle-to-grid (V2G)

• Building automation and energy-efficient buildings

• Climate resilience, early-warning systems and smart water and agriculture management

6- Trustworthy and Resilient Urban Systems

• Security and resilience of urban cyber-physical infrastructures

• Privacy-preserving architectures and data sovereignty

• Compliance-by-design with emerging regulation (e.g., AI Act, Cyber Resilience Act, GDPR)

• Testbeds, living labs, large-scale pilots and evaluation methodologies