Implementation of IoT in Smart Cities: Advantages and Disadvantages

This report discusses the implementation of IoT in Smart Cities, its advantages and disadvantages. It covers the structure of the report, the chosen topic, and the problem statement. The report also includes a literature review, issues, challenges, solutions, and future research.

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Milestone 1: Internet of Things
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Abstract: IoT is an emerging technology where the devices are associated with communicating
with the other devices or to the network by making use of the internet. The large scale adaptation
of the IoT has been done by almost every fields which are associated with making the lives of
people much easier. The IoT has been applied in the cities as well which has been associated
with making the lives of people easy by simplifying the way of life. The implementation of IoT
is associated with bringing a lot of advantages as well as disadvantages. The data is collected by
making use of the various sensors which are then processed and analysed in order to monitor and
manage the various kind of activities occurring inside a city. This report would be associated
with discussing about the implementation of the IoT in the cities so as to make the lives of
people easier.

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Introduction
The recent communication paradigm of the future technological development that has the
potential to transform everything around the human world and equip communications with
digital and microcontroller-based communication is the Internet of Things or IoT (Arasteh et al.,
2016). Nowadays, IoT is being utilized for developing Smart Cities, which would enable easy
and accessible interaction with a huge number of different equipment like the appliances used at
home, cameras responsible for surveillance, sensors associated with monitoring, actuators, and
many more. This would be the topic for the further research that would follow as below.
Purpose of the report
Given the complex scenario of the modern world, where with every upgrade of the
technological world, adding to the urbanization of the society has made adopting the latest
technological developments; the incorporation of IoT has become inevitable in the modern
society. Therefore, various governmental powers all around the world have been giving into the
push of adapting to these technological advancements and invested into developing the Smart
Cities. It is understandable that an urban IoT would be able to bring about huge benefits right
from its inception to management and optimization of different urbanized system of a city, like
traffic services, crime management, surveillance and many others. Therefore, there must be a
research done for the IoT technology implementation in Smart Cities. The structure of the
research report would be described below detailing to all the aspects of the research regarding
successful implementation of IoT in Smart Cities. This research would be done keeping in mind

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about all the advantages of the IoT technology as well as the shortcomings that would create
problems while implementing the new technology to enhance urbanization.
Chosen topic: Internet of things Smart city
Nowadays, IoT is being utilized for developing Smart Cities, which would associated
with providing an easy and accessible interaction with a huge number of different equipment like
the appliances used at home, cameras responsible for surveillance, sensors associated with
monitoring, actuators, and many more. However, the field of application that is imposed as a
result forms a heterogeneous mode of approach for satisfying all the requirements that the
implementation needs (Zanella et al., 2014). The application of IoT has been seen in various
domains which includes the home automation, automation in the industries, medical aids,
assistance to the elders, management of the energy intelligently and smart grids, automotive,
management of the traffic, and many more.
Smart Cities are the latest innovation that various countries are adapting to for ease of the
urban society. It is understandable that an urban IoT would be able to bring about huge benefits
right from its inception to management and optimization of different urbanized system of a city,
like traffic services, crime management, surveillance and many others. Therefore, there must be
a research done for the IoT technology implementation in Smart Cities.
Structure of the report
The structure of the report would follow a simple research methodology that would
describe all the aspects of implementing a latest technology of introducing an IoT based
technology in a Smart City for any specific country (Centenaro et al., 2016). This would be

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described with a Smart City concept and services that the IoT implementation in Smart City
provides, comprising of the different aspects of a Smart City starting from the health of structure
that the buildings are having to the management of the Waste, Monitoring of Noise, reduction in
the traffic congestion, consumption of energy and many more. This will be followed by the Web
Service approach of the IoT service Architecture and its entire specification, which would enable
to check for the specification for a particular country according to their needs. The urban IoT
Architecture would be described by the different technologies that would be used for the same. A
literature review would be associated with providing an overview of the various works that has
been done on this topic. The main structure of the entire report is provide below:
Abstract
Introduction
Literature Review
Issues, Challenges, Solutions
Future Research
Advantages and disadvantages
Conclusion
References
Problem statement
The field of application that is imposed as a result forms a heterogeneous mode of
approach for satisfying all the requirements. Along with this the application of the heterogeneous

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field is associated with helping in the identification of the solutions which would be associated
with satisfying the requirements in order to solve all the problems faced in the application
scenarios along with avoiding the various kind of challenges (Latre et al., 2016). This kind of
difficulties ate responsible for the propagation of various kind of incompatible proposals that are
needed in order to have a practical realization of IoT systems that are being used in the cities.
Thus, it can be stated that the Smart City implementation in a IoT environment is an
extensive process that should be taken up by different countries nowadays to cope up with the
technological transformation of the contemporary world. It is understandable that an urban IoT
would be able to bring about huge benefits right from its inception to management and
optimization of different urbanized system of a city, like traffic services, crime management,
surveillance and many others. Therefore, there must be a research done for the IoT technology
implementation in Smart Cities.

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References
Arasteh, H., Hosseinnezhad, V., Loia, V., Tommasetti, A., Troisi, O., Shafie-Khah, M., & Siano,
P. (2016, June). Iot-based smart cities: a survey. In Environment and Electrical
Engineering (EEEIC), 2016 IEEE 16th International Conference on (pp. 1-6). IEEE.
Centenaro, M., Vangelista, L., Zanella, A., & Zorzi, M. (2016). Long-range communications in
unlicensed bands: The rising stars in the IoT and smart city scenarios. IEEE Wireless
Communications, 23(5), 60-67.
Latre, S., Leroux, P., Coenen, T., Braem, B., Ballon, P., & Demeester, P. (2016, September).
City of things: An integrated and multi-technology testbed for IoT smart city
experiments. In Smart Cities Conference (ISC2), 2016 IEEE International (pp. 1-8).
IEEE.
Zanella, A., Bui, N., Castellani, A., Vangelista, L., & Zorzi, M. (2014). Internet of things for
smart cities. IEEE Internet of Things journal, 1(1), 22-32.