The Internet of Things (IoT) and Smart-cities

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The Internet of Things (IoT) and Smart-cities
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The Internet of things (IoT) is a network of home appliances, physical devices,
vehicles and other similar products that are embedded with actuators, electronics, sensors,
and software. The IoT devices transfer messages and information over the Internet. A clear
strategy is required to successfully build a smart city. IoT devices like robots, drones, self-
driving vehicles, 3D printing, and big data can bring significant transformational changes in
energy and water, health, education, finance, buildings and livings, retails and logistics. The
essay illustrates the social factors, the economic factors and the political factors that must be
taken into consideration to build a smart city.

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Transformational changes in economy and society
(Source: Ji et al., 2014)
Smart Mobility
Smart mobility solutions’ main objective is to build greener and cheaper
transportation means. Thus these IoT solutions are both socially and economically feasible.
Smart parking: It is quite difficult to find one suitable parking space in a large city.
However, smart IoT solutions can be helpful to optimize the parking spaces for the smart
cities. Smart sensors are connected to the parking spaces. The sensors are capable to detect
whether there is an empty space or not. The sensors can address the cars currently in the
parking area (Centenaro et al., 2016). The drivers can acknowledge nearest free parking
slots. Generally, the parking slots of offices remain busy in the normal working days and
working hours. Outside these hours, these parking slots can be used especially in the evening
and the weekends. The users with the help of IoT and Internet services can reserve parking
area outside office hours.
Self-driving cars: The self-driving cars or autonomous cars are the ones that are
capable to drive itself and they do not require any human intervention. They use various
techniques to detect its surroundings. They mainly use the sensors like odometry, radar, GPS,
laser light and computer vision (Ji et al., 2014). The self-driving cars can be used wisely. The
utilisation of these cars can be combined with principles of sharing economy to lessen a large
number of cars' usage and parking spaces' usage in the cities. In this case, the users do not
have to use their cars instead they have to subscribe to the transportation services. Thus the
users can be economically benefitted.
Smart Safety

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The smart IoT devices are capable to provide safety to the society. Smart Street
Lighting is emergency are some of the IoT solutions defined in the essay.
Smart Street Lighting: Smart Street Lighting is good for the society as it reduces
energy consumption. The smart street lights must be designed in such a way that it will
become brighter when any specific vehicle is approaching nearby (Anagnostopoulos et al.,
2015). The lights must glow when an ambulance or fire truck arrives. It can save time and
can protect lives of many.
Data-based crime prevention programs: The crime can be detected using the big data
analysis. The government agencies can make use of the data to safeguard the society (Arasteh
et al., 2016). Any individuals can prevent recidivism with the aid of IoT and big data
analysis.
Smart emergency apps: The smart apps and the emergency apps can be helpful for
the citizens. The citizens can send alerts in case of emergency via all these apps. Thus the
smart apps can help the citizens either in case of medical and criminal emergency (Urbieta et
al., 2017). The apps inform the nearby police officers or safety guards or the nearby central
police stations.
Smart Energy
Smart energy is related to low energy consumptions and the greener energy
generation. Smart energy is useful comes with both social and economic benefits. Smart
energy reduces the electricity consumptions, thus save users do not have to pay heavy
electricity bills.
Smart metering: The smart meters are helpful to generate data and all these data are
used to get an overall view of the energy usage patterns. The smart apps use all the data and