Internet of Things for Smart Cities: A Critical Review

Running head: INTERNET OF THINGS
Internet of Things
[Name of the Student]
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Introduction:
The report would be associated with critically reviewing the paper “Internet of Things for
Smart Cities” by “Andrea Zanella and Lorenzo Vangelista”. In this paper the authors state that
IoT or the Internet of Things are to be incorporated in a transparent and seamlessly large number
which are of different and heterogeneous end system. This would also be associated with
providing of open access in order to select the subnets of the data and this is to be done in order
to develop the plethora of the various kind of digital services. So it was considered by them that
the process of creating a general architecture for an IoT is a very complex process and this is
mainly due to the reason that there exists a variety of devices along with link layer technologies
and services which are generally involved in this type of system. The paper has been mainly
focusing on the IoT systems that are used in the urban areas which can be considered as a broad
category and has been categorized according the application domains. The IoT urban systems are
generally designed for the purpose of supporting the vision of smart city which are generally
aimed at exploitation of the most advances communication technologies in order to provide
support to the value added services so as to administer the city and also to provide support to the
citizens. So it can be stated that this study is associated with providing a comprehensive survey
in order to enable the technologies, protocols and the architecture which is to be used by the
urban IoT. The paper has also been associated with presenting and discussing the various
technical solutions along with the best-practice guidelines which are to be adopted by the Padova
smart city project and as a proof the IoT has been deployed in the city of Padova, Italy which has
been performed in collaboration with the municipality of the city.

Discussion:
According to this paper Iot can be considered as a recent communication paradigm which
has been associated with envisioning of the near future where the objects which are to be used on
a daily basis are to be equipped by various kind of small electronic devices like the
microcontroller and the trans receiver for digital communication along with suitable protocol
stacks which would associated with making them capable of communicating with one another
along with the users. This would be by making use of eth internet. So it can be concluded that the
concept of IoT is generally aimed at making the internet look much more pervasive and
impressive as well. Along with this the IoT is also associated with enabling the easy access and
interactions with a wide variety of devices. So it can be stated that the paradigm has indeed been
capable of finding out applications in various domains. But it has been seen that the
heterogeneous field of applications has been capable of identifying various solutions in order to
meet the requirements and also for tackling the formidable challenges. Due to this kind of
difficulties proliferation of different and sometimes the incompatible proposals in order to have a
practical realization of the various kind of IoT systems. So it can be stated, when viewed from
the prospective of system, the realization of the IoT network along with the required backend
network services and devices has still been lacking in the establishment of the best practices and
this has mainly happened due to the novelty and complexities of this system. Along with the
technical difficulties there also exists hindering of the IoT platform when they are being adopted
and this is mainly happening due to lack of clear and widely accepted business model which are
capable of attracting the investments in order to promote the deployment of this kind of
technologies.