IoT Smart City: Applications, Advantages, and Security Challenges

This report discusses the applications, advantages, and security challenges of IoT in smart cities. It also provides mitigation techniques for the identified issues.

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Table of Contents
1. Introduction............................................................................................................................2
1.1 Introduction to the Problem and Domain.........................................................................2
1.2 Structure of the Report.....................................................................................................5
References..................................................................................................................................6

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1. Introduction
1.1 Introduction to the Problem and Domain
Background: The IoT or Internet of Things is the specific system of quite a few
interlinked computing device, object, digital machine, mechanical machine and many others,
which are eventually provided by the UIDs or unique identifiers (Wortmann & Flüchter,
2015). There is a significant ability for transferring data on the network without even needing
any humans to computers or humans to humans interactions. These things of the technology
of Internet of Things could either be a person or any device that comprises of the in built
sensors for altering the users as well as transferring confidential data within the network. The
organizations are utilizing the Internet of Things for operating more efficiently or effectively.
An improvised decision making as well as enhanced customer services is provided by this
technology. The overall efficiency is highly improved and hence the client obtains economic
advantages and the human exertions should be reduced (Lee et al., 2013). The Internet of
Things includes extension of Internet connection beyond the standard devices. The remote
monitoring as well as controlling of the devices is easily done with the help of IoT
technology.
Applications of IoT in Smart City: The Internet of Things in smart cities helps in
the urban rapid growth or development to provide higher strain or stress over the existing
infrastructures (Yang, 2014). Various important as well as significant applications of this
technology of Internet of Things are present that helps in the total growth for any smart city.
All of these applications usually have invited extreme innovation and effectiveness to
properly enhance the several services. Moreover, the overall expenses of the smart cities are
reduced to a greater level. The reliability and trustworthiness of the transportation system is
yet another significant application of the technology of Internet of Things. Moreover, an

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extremely efficient and effective water supply connection is also provided by this technology.
The Internet of Things even makes energy efficient buildings for its users (Gubbi et al.,
2013). Hence, it is quite easy with the legacy infrastructures of the buildings for saving
energy and finally improving the sustainability.
Public safety is quite improvised with the systems of video monitoring for tackling
the various safety concerns, which come up with the growth of smart cities. Some of the
major cities comprise of several cameras that monitor the traffic to avoid accidents (Zanella
et al., 2014). The software of video analytics is also provided by the technology of Internet of
Things for helping the procedure of checking the hours of video footages within the smart
cities. The public transportation often gets disrupted as soon as there are various road
closures, equipment breakdowns or bad weather. These affect the growth of the smart cities
and hence the residents suffer a lot due to this issue. The traffic congestion is also reduced
with the help of the technology of IoT. The transformation of the smart cities is eventually
done with this particular technology. Water supply is considered as the most important and
significant requirement for any city and the Internet of Things technology helps to get the
potential for transforming the way these cities could consume water (Chandrakanth et al.,
2014). The smart meters could improvise the leak detection as well as data integrity and the
prevention of lost revenue for the inefficiency is obtained. The analysis of data is also easily
done with these IoT applications.
In spite of having such important advantages, there are some of the major security
issues present for IoT smart city. These types of security issues or problems often become
major challenges for the residents of the smart cites. The first and the most important security
issue of the IoT smart city is the lack of security in the constrained devices (Zanella et al.,
2014). The lack of authorization and authentication of the IoT devices is yet another
important security challenge for the residents of smart city. Moreover, these residents often

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do not get any assurance of the data privacy as well as data integrity. The following report
will be providing a brief description on the IoT smart city and the various challenges faced in
these cities. Furthermore, the mitigation techniques for these challenges are also provided
here.

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1.2 Structure of the Report
Abstract
1. Introduce the Problem or Challenge
1.1 Introduction to the Problem and Domain
1.2 Structure of the Report
2. Literature Review
2.1 Current State of IoT in Smart City
2.2 Implications of the Technology of IoT in Smart City
2.3 Issues of IoT in Smart City
2.4 Techniques for Mitigating the Identified Issues
2.5 Future Research and Advancements in IoT technology within Smart City
3. Annotated Bibliography
4. Conclusion

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References
Chandrakanth, S., Venkatesh, K., Uma Mahesh, J., & Naganjaneyulu, K. V. (2014). Internet
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Gubbi, J., Buyya, R., Marusic, S., & Palaniswami, M. (2013). Internet of Things (IoT): A
vision, architectural elements, and future directions. Future generation computer
systems, 29(7), 1645-1660.
Lee, G. M., Crespi, N., Choi, J. K., & Boussard, M. (2013). Internet of things. In Evolution of
Telecommunication Services(pp. 257-282). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
Wortmann, F., & Flüchter, K. (2015). Internet of things. Business & Information Systems
Engineering, 57(3), 221-224.
Yang, S. H. (2014). Internet of things. In Wireless Sensor Networks (pp. 247-261). Springer,
London.
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.