scholarly journals IoT in Smart Cities: A Survey of Technologies, Practices and Challenges

Smart Cities ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 429-475
Author(s):  
Abbas Shah Syed ◽  
Daniel Sierra-Sosa ◽  
Anup Kumar ◽  
Adel Elmaghraby
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Mitigation Measures ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Sustainable Living ◽  
The World ◽  
Networking Technologies ◽  
City Systems ◽  
The Internet Of Things

Internet of Things (IoT) is a system that integrates different devices and technologies, removing the necessity of human intervention. This enables the capacity of having smart (or smarter) cities around the world. By hosting different technologies and allowing interactions between them, the internet of things has spearheaded the development of smart city systems for sustainable living, increased comfort and productivity for citizens. The IoT for Smart Cities has many different domains and draws upon various underlying systems for its operation. In this paper, we provide a holistic coverage of the Internet of Things in Smart Cities. We start by discussing the fundamental components that make up the IoT based Smart City landscape followed by the technologies that enable these domains to exist in terms of architectures utilized, networking technologies used as well as the Artificial Algorithms deployed in IoT based Smart City systems. This is then followed up by a review of the most prevalent practices and applications in various Smart City domains. Lastly, the challenges that deployment of IoT systems for smart cities encounter along with mitigation measures.

EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES AND APPLICATIONS FOR SMART CITIES

2021 ◽  
Vol 15 (02) ◽  
pp. 19-24
Author(s):  
Vishv Patel ◽  
Devansh Shah ◽  
Nishant Doshi
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Emerging Technologies ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
The Internet ◽  
The World ◽  
Iot Devices ◽  
The City ◽  
The Internet Of Things ◽  
Day By Day

The large deployment of the Internet of Things (IoT) is empowering Smart City tasks and activities everywhere throughout the world. Items utilized in day-by-day life are outfitted with IoT devices and sensors to make them interconnected and connected with the internet. Internet of Things (IoT) is a vital piece of a smart city that tremendously impact on all the city sectors, for example, governance, healthcare, mobility, pollution, and transportation. This all connected IoT devices will make the cities smart. As different smart city activities and undertakings have been propelled in recent times, we have seen the benefits as well as the risks. This paper depicts the primary challenges and weaknesses of applying IoT innovations dependent on smart city standards. Moreover, this paper points the outline of the technologies and applications of the smart cities.

scholarly journals Smart cities IOT & Digital network connectivity devices: Optimization on business in Africa

2021 ◽  
pp. 064-071
Author(s):  
Makeri Yakubu Ajiji ◽  
Xi’an Jiaotong Victor Chang ◽  
Targio Hashem Ibrahim Abaker ◽  
Uzorka Afam ◽  
T Cirella Giuseppe
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Urban Communities ◽  
Information And Communication Technologies ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
The Internet ◽  
City Development ◽  
Short Article ◽  
The Internet Of Things

Today the world is becoming connected. The number of devices that are connected are increasing day by day. Many studies reveal that about 50 billion devices would be connected by 2020 indicating that Internet of things have a very big role to play in the future to come Considering the perplexing engineering of Smart City conditions, it ought not to be failed to remember that their establishment lies in correspondence advancements that permit availability and information move between the components in Smart City conditions. Remote interchanges with their capacities speak to Smart City empowering advancements that give the open door for their fast and effective execution and extension as well. The gigantic weight towards the proficient city the board has triggered various Smart City activities by both government and private area businesses to put resources into Information and Communication Technologies to discover feasible answers for the assorted chances and difficulties (e.g., waste the executives). A few specialists have endeavored to characterize a lot of shrewd urban areas and afterward recognize openings and difficulties in building brilliant urban communities. This short article likewise expresses the progressing movement of the Internet of Things and its relationship to keen urban communities. Advancement in ICT and data sharing innovation are the drivers of keen city degree and scale. This quick development is changing brilliant city development with the beginning of the Internet of Things (IoT). This transformation additionally speaks to difficulties in building (Kehua, Li, and Fu ,Su et al.1). By knowing the attributes of specific advances, the experts will have the occasion to create proficient, practical, and adaptable Smart City frameworks by actualizing the most reasonable one.

Secure Routing Protocols Using Trust-Based Mechanisms in the Internet of Things for Smart City Environment Challenges and Future Trends

2019 ◽  
pp. 103-129
Author(s):  
Aminu Bello Usman ◽  
Jairo A. Gutierrez ◽  
Abdullahi Baffa Bichi
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Communication Networks ◽  
Routing Protocols ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Future Trends ◽  
Secure Information ◽  
Secure Routing Protocols ◽  
The Internet Of Things

The internet of things (IoT) is expected to influence both architecture and infrastructure of current and future smart cities vision. Thus, the requirement and effectiveness of making cities smarter demands suitable provision of secure and efficient communication networks between IoT networking devices. Trust-based routing protocols play an important role in IoT for secure information exchange and communications between IoT networking elements. Thus, this chapter presents the foundation of trust-based protocols from social science to IoT for secure smart city environments. The chapter outlines and discusses the key ideas, notions, and theories that may help the reader to understand the current status and the possible future trends of trust-based protocols in IoT networks for smart cities. The chapter also discusses the implications, requirements, and future research challenges of trust-based protocols in IoT for smart cities.

scholarly journals Role and Importance of IoT in the Smart City and E-Governance

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
MUHAMMAD SAQIB ◽  
Nadia Al-Muqrashi
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Service Providers ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Smart Cameras ◽  
The Government ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The Internet Of Things

In the recent years, developments growth have been rising in utilizing of recent technologies; Smart cities have been furnished with various electronic devices concentrated on the Internet of Things (IoT) to be more smarter than before. The Internet of Things is empowered by various emerging technologies such as smart cameras, sensors, wireless communication devices etc. Smart cities are huge systems connected with countless sub-systems, and these systems are depending on the electricity to move the human, things, and data to share information. Without electric power and Internet of Things, the smart city cannot be achieved and services cannot be provided. This paper aims to provide a comprehensive concept of IoT, the smart city as well as the relationship of Smart Cities to IoT. Moreover, an extensive review of the relationship of IoT to the smart city discussed with few instances of services provided by the government using IoT technologies for the citizens. Therefore the objects and applications which come under the IoT technology that can be used to meet the objective of having a smart city. In this paper, a thorough literature on the concept of IoT with Smart City and a brief comparison of it in terms of services, challenges, and issues are discussed. Also the discussion on the issues faced by service providers with regards to technologies used to equip the citizens with up to date services.

scholarly journals Smart cities in collaboration with the internet of things

2020 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 185-195
Author(s):  
Ricardo Alirio González Bustamante ◽  
Roberto Ferro Escobar ◽  
Harold Vacca González
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Daily Life ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Personal Life ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Advantages And Disadvantages ◽  
The World ◽  
Use Of The Internet ◽  
The Internet Of Things

The use of the Internet has Reached a point in the world in Which it has Become essential in everyday life, the need to Have information at hand in the shortest possible time has generated a technological revolution That incurs the constant connection to this tool, from our Personal life to the same objects That we use in daily life, creating a need to check what surrounds us to Improve our quality of life, reason for the birth of the Internet of Things (IoT, for acronym in English), as well as the convergence of our environment through the creation with Technology of smart cities (Smart City in English). In view of the above, this article addresses concepts about the future of smart cities in collaboration with the Internet of things, the advantages and Disadvantages of these, their comparison, reception, adaptability.

scholarly journals Role of Internet of Things (IoT) and Crowdsourcing in Smart City Projects

Smart Cities ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (4) ◽  
pp. 1276-1292
Author(s):  
Isam Shahrour ◽  
Xiongyao Xie
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
City Development ◽  
Mobile Crowdsourcing ◽  
The Internet Of Things

This paper presents and discusses the role of the Internet of Things (IoT) and crowdsourcing in constructing smart cities. The literature review shows an important and increasing concern of the scientific community for these three issues and their association as support for urban development. Based on an extensive literature review, the paper first presents the smart city concept, emphasizing smart city architecture and the role of data in smart city solutions. The second part presents the Internet of Things, focusing on IoT technology, the use of IoT in smart city applications, and security. Finally, the paper presents crowdsourcing with particular attention to mobile crowdsourcing and its role in smart cities. The paper shows that IoT and crowdsourcing have a crucial role in two fundamental layers of smart city applications, namely, the data collection and services layers. Since these two layers ensure the connection between the physical and digital worlds, they constitute the central pillars of smart city projects. The literature review also shows that the smart city development still requires stronger cooperation between the smart city technology-centered research, mainly based on the IoT, and the smart city citizens-centered research, mainly based on crowdsourcing. This cooperation could beneficiate in recent developments in the field of crowdsensing that combines IoT and crowdsourcing.

scholarly journals Blockchains: Improve the Scalability and Efficiency of Conventional Blockchain by Providing a Lightweight Block Mining and Communication Algorithm

2020 ◽  
Vol 25 (6) ◽  
pp. 737-745
Author(s):  
Subba Rao Peram ◽  
Premamayudu Bulla
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Hybrid Approach ◽  
Security And Privacy ◽  
Public Key ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Byzantine Fault Tolerance ◽  
Complex Issue ◽  
The Internet Of Things

To provide secure and reliable services using the internet of things (IoT) in the smart cities/villages is a challenging and complex issue. A high throughput and resilient services are required to process vast data generated by the smart city/villages that felicitates to run the applications of smart city. To provide security and privacy a scalable blockchain (BC) mechanism is a necessity to integrate the scalable ledger and transactions limit in the BC. In this paper, we investigated the available solutions to improve its scalability and efficiency. However, most of the algorithms are not providing the better solution to achieve scalability for the smart city data. Here, proposed and implemented a hybrid approach to improve the scalability and rate of transactions on BC using practical Byzantine fault tolerance and decentralized public key algorithms. The proposed Normachain is compares our results with the existing model. The results show that the transaction rate got improved by 6.43% and supervision results got improved by 17.78%.

Blockchain in a Nutshell

2021 ◽  
pp. 124-143
Author(s):  
A. K. M. Bahalul Haque ◽  
Bharat Bhushan
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
New Technology ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Rapid Urbanization ◽  
The World ◽  
System Requirements ◽  
Urban Problems ◽  
A Chain ◽  
The Internet Of Things

Blockchain gets its name from being a series of blocks that are linked together to form a chain. Once the information has been added to the chain, it cannot be changed. There are several consensus protocols, and each of them is chosen based on the type of blockchain and the system requirements. With the rapid urbanization of the world, several economic, social, and environment-related issues have been raised. Smart cities are an emerging concept that holds the solution to these urban problems. Blockchain is such an innovation that can promote the development of smart cities. Along with its application in the internet of things, smart cities, and logistics, blockchain truly is state-of-the-art technology. Here, the authors aim to provide an in-depth look into this relatively new technology, beginning with blockchain's fundamentals and then covering the applications, issues, and future scope.

scholarly journals Convergence of Blockchain and IoT for Secure Transportation Systems in Smart Cities

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Khizar Abbas ◽  
Lo’Ai A. Tawalbeh ◽  
Ahsan Rafiq ◽  
Ammar Muthanna ◽  
Ibrahim A. Elgendy ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Transportation System ◽  
Heterogeneous Data ◽  
Sensor Data ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Transit System ◽  
Smart Transportation ◽  
The Internet Of Things

Smart cities provide citizens with smart and advanced services to improve their quality of life. However, it has been observed that the collection, storage, processing, and analysis of heterogeneous data that are usually borne by citizens will bear certain difficulties. The development of the Internet of Things, cloud computing, social media, and other Industry 4.0 influencers pushed technology into a smart society’s framework, bringing potential vulnerabilities to sensor data, services, and smart city applications. These vulnerabilities lead to data security problems. We propose a decentralized data management system for smart and secure transportation that uses blockchain and the Internet of Things in a sustainable smart city environment to solve the data vulnerability problem. A smart transportation mobility system demands creating an interconnected transit system to ensure flexibility and efficiency. This article introduces prior knowledge and then provides a Hyperledger Fabric-based data architecture that supports a secure, trusted, smart transportation system. The simulation results show the balance between the blockchain mining time and the number of blocks created. We also use the average transaction delay evaluation model to evaluate the model and to test the proposed system’s performance. The system will address residents’ and authorities’ security challenges of the transportation system in smart, sustainable cities and lead to better governance.

scholarly journals Scientific and practical foundations and business processes for the sustainable development of Smart City

2021 ◽  
Vol 258 ◽  
pp. 02023
Author(s):  
Inna Krasovskaya ◽  
Elena Schislyaeva ◽  
Felix Shamrai
Keyword(s):  
Internet Of Things ◽  
Smart City ◽  
Business Processes ◽  
Smart Cities ◽  
Economic Environment ◽  
High Tech ◽  
The Internet ◽  
Territorial Planning ◽  
Internet Of Things Technology ◽  
The Internet Of Things

The article investigates scientific and practical issues of transport logistics; the conceptual and methodological mechanisms of formation of the “Smart City” strategy are considered and its main business processes are interpreted; the author’s description of the Internet of Things as a high-tech network of deterministic mechanisms, logistic algorithms, business processes and technical and technological devices, interconnected with each other and with the external socio-economic environment is presented; the international experience of the formation and functioning of transport and logistics business processes of “smart cities” was critically rethought; reducing costs, ensuring socio-economic growth and sustainability, while improving the quality of services and the life of citizens, are justified as fundamental tasks of smart city projects; studied the socio-economic objectives of the Smart City of St. Petersburg project, in particular, the formation of a list of measures to optimize business processes, the creation of an external economic environment that would facilitate the attraction of non-budgetary funding sources for the implementation of projects, the development of a methodology for monitoring indicators of socio-economic development and territorial planning of St. Petersburg; identified the main socio-economic advantages of the introduction of smart parking in relation to the infrastructures of smart cities and their residents; empirically confirmed the effectiveness of the implementation of an intelligent parking management system based on the “Internet of Things” technology in the social and economic conditions of St. Petersburg; the characteristic of transport and logistics advantages of the strategy “Smart city of St. Petersburg” is provided.

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