Uberization of Business Entities in A Smart City

Abstract: The sharing economy paradigm has resulted in many successful systems such as Uber, Airbnb, Grab. This paper presents a share economy system for business entities in a smart city with high speed internet connection. The business entities can be a commercial entity with address, GPS location, service type, etc. The city must establish a central server so that a business entity can register their profile as defined by the operator. Then a user can construct a request vector to identify the availability of a desired service by UBEN Matching Algorithm at the server. This paper describes the UBEN matching algorithm and a Shophouse Service Matching Algorithm. The ramification of implementing this kind of service is discussed. 

Key words: sharing economy; UBEN; smart city

JEL codes: M15