Communications in Computer and Information Science

This book constitutes the revised selected papers of the 7th Ibero-American Congress on Smart Cities, ICSC-Cities 2024, held in San Carlos, Costa Rica during November 12–14, 2024.The 24 full papers included in this book were carefully reviewed and selected from 129 submissions. They were organized in topical sections as follows: Internet of Things and Big Data; Computational intelligence for smart cities; Optimization, smart industry, and smart public services; Innovative approaches for smart cities; Control strategies for smart grid.