IoT in Smart Cities: Challenges and Opportunities

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IoT in Smart Cities
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Abstract:
At present almost, seventy percent inhabitants of cities are using the IoT devices. The
application and opportunities, IoT devices are promising getting more innovative day by day.
Various big organizations are considering the IoT as the opportunity of creating better
marketing strategy and attracting new customers. From wearable devices like smart watch to
smart home, IoT is promising better living for humans. With great opportunities comes big
challenges. It is not a easy task to implement the IoT device that are used by thousands of
people. All the data coming from the customers are needed to be stored in one place. Taken
as an example, patient health information is a critical and essential data for healthcare
organizations. Data collected from IoT devices used by the patient gathers tremendous
amount of data and sends to the server.
Maintain the credibility and accuracy of the data is a big challenge when it comes to utilizing
bigdata as storage framework. The biggest challenge that often appears is misunderstanding
of bigdata. Various organizations, mostly small or medium, are confused by the existence of
bigdata alternative solutions framework. The main concept of the IoT based smart devices or
homes or even cities is to establish an error free and efficient connection between various
devices. Collecting and sharing of such vast amount of data simultaneously has become a
challenge for the big organizations too. The flow of data in real-time often leads to sending
wrong data to a device thus creating operational issue. Another huge issue is processing data.
In some cases, the server has to process the collected data before sending the information to a
destination. Processing GB’s of data simultaneously is a huge task for any server. Therefore,
the server can crash anytime and result into complete failure of the IoT network.

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Table of Contents
Introduction to the problems and challenges.............................................................................3
Issues in implementing IoT........................................................................................................3
Literature review........................................................................................................................5
Annotated Bibliography.............................................................................................................6
Requirements of the project.....................................................................................................10
Solution:...................................................................................................................................10
Findings:...................................................................................................................................11
Recommendation:....................................................................................................................12
Future Research:.......................................................................................................................12
Advantages and Disadvantages:...............................................................................................13
Conclusion:..............................................................................................................................13
References:...............................................................................................................................15

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Introduction to the problems and challenges
Internet of things has been acting as one of the most used technology in today’s
society. The expansion of the technology itself proves the importance of the technology.
Internet of things has been termed as one of the leading technology that has been expanding
in highest order (ur Rehman, ur Rehman & Khan, 2016). Global acceptance of internet of
things is also very high as the mass itself gets benefitted from the usage of this internet of
things. Governing urban cities gets easier with the help of implementation of internet of
things. Inclusion of this technological platform of internet of things includes the usage of
smart phones by the citizens of the country for better communication and enhancement of
connectivity with the government (Kharchenko, Kolisnyk & Piskachova, 2016). This
increases the efficiency of man management.
Issues in implementing IoT
Implementation of internet of things in governing citizens also helps in facilitating the
transportation of the citizens. In case internet of things is used in the processing of
transportation, users can easily book vehicles from their door steps which helps in decreasing
the time consumed in travelling (Ramani & Iyengar, 2017). Again with the help of
implementation of internet of things, flow of traffic can be maintained in an automated
nature. This is due to the fact that there will be no need of manual presence for controlling the
inflow of traffic. This helps in increasing the accuracy in maintaining the traffic flow and the
rate of accident is expected to decrease. Tracking of personnel’s data also act as one of the
major reason of using the platform of internet of things for completion of the project
(Alrawais, Alhothaily & Hu, 2017). This also helps in increasing the accuracy in mob
maintenance and people performing illegal activities will get punished as city are implanted
in different zones of the country. This also helps in tracking of criminals present in the