Internet of Things for Smart Cities

Abstract

The Internet of Things (IoT) shall be able to incorporate transparently and seamlessly a large number of different and heterogeneous end systems, while providing open access to selected subsets of data for the development of a plethora of digital services. Building a general architecture for the IoT is hence a very complex task, mainly because of the extremely large variety of devices, link layer technologies, and services that may be involved in such a system. In this paper, we focus specifically to an urban IoT system that, while still being quite a broad category, are characterized by their specific application domain. Urban IoTs, in fact, are designed to support the Smart City vision, which aims at exploiting the most advanced communication technologies to support added-value services for the administration of the city and for the citizens. This paper hence provides a comprehensive survey of the enabling technologies, protocols, and architecture for an urban IoT. Furthermore, the paper will present and discuss the technical solutions and best-practice guidelines adopted in the Padova Smart City project, a proof-of-concept deployment of an IoT island in the city of Padova, Italy, performed in collaboration with the city municipality

Barriers to the Development of Smart Cities in Indian Context

“…Within this particular category, 'Lacking standardization (L&E2)' barrier is ranked first. Clearly, there is a lack of standards and policy directions on efficient applicability and managing of IoT based networks (Weber 2013;Perera et al 2014;Zanella et al 2014;Weber and Studer 2016). 'Issues of openness of data (L&E3)' comes next to the list.…”

5G IoT Industry Verticals and Network Requirements

“…As each one of the above mentioned types of traffic could be potentially handled in a different way from an architectural point of view, a primary characteristic of a smart city is the integration of different communication infrastructures. Zanella et al (2014) discuss urban IoT technologies that are close to standardization, and agree that most of smart city services are based on a centralized architecture where data is delivered to a control centre in charge of subsequently processing and storing the received traffic. From a deployment point of view, such a centralized architecture can be either a centralized, distributed or cloud-based data center according to the needs of the specific scenario as well as the availability of network resources in a specific area.…”

Opening up Smart Cities: Citizen-Centric Challenges and Opportunities from GIScience

“…More specifically, the Internet of Things (IoT) can be regarded as a critical enabler of smart cities infrastructures [16]. Zanella et al [17] discussed implementation strategies for urban systems leveraging the inherent characteristics of IoT to connect and integrate "a large number of different and heterogeneous end systems, while providing open access to selected subsets of data for the development of a plethora of digital services". [18] defines a social layer, which can potentially horizontally connect several application domains, on top of the IoT to simplify the management of huge volumes of objects.…”