Challenges and Mitigation Strategies for Urban IoT in Smart Cities

Running head: INTERNET OF THINGS
Internet of Things for Smart Cities
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Research Question: What are the challenges in implementing Urban IoT in
the Cities and strategies to resolve or mitigate these challenges?
Abstract
In recent years, smart cities are the main aspirations for the decision makers and the
individuals and the smart cities is considered as a solution to a number of problems in the urban
cities. The smart cities mainly adopt the Information Communication Technologies for the
development process in urban areas. The transition of urban conventional cities into smart cities
have led to many IoT issues. The security as well as privacy related issues of the smart
technologies have affected the residents of the urban cities tremendously. This essay contain
detail review of such articles and papers that deals with the challenges that are faced by the smart
urban cities those have involved Internet of Things to make the city smart. 11 such article are
taken to review this issue and the mitigation techniques are also suggested for the challenges that
are highlighted.

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Introduction
Arasteh et al. (2016), stated that with the increase of urbanization, the governments of
many urban cities have prepared themselves to maintain as well as increase quality of lives of the
population in such cities. According to Strohbach et al. (2015), there are some key elements that
are needed for a smart city application. The components are 1) large amount of data generated, 2)
networks, architectures, interfaces, and infrastruces are also defined in IoT, 3) technologies of
big data are available in large amount for supporting the large amount of data, and last but not
the least 4) there should be wide amount of knowledge related to the algorithms and the
toolboxes used in the making the cities smart (AlEnezi, AlMeraj and Manuel 2018). So, it can be
stated that all urban smart cities are making innovation and the new technologies like big data are
also diving the cities towards building a smart city.
But, for making a city smart, there are many issues and challenges that are needed to be
addressed. As stated by Hassan and Awad (2018), the issues that are specifically needed to be
addressed is to design new algorithms so that the mass data can be processed and to utilize the
big data for improving the quality of service for the future smart cities. Another issue that the
smart cities faces is failure of nodes because of the malicious attacks, which decreases the
performance of smart tools (Santana et al. 2017). In this essay reviewing process, 11 scholarly
articles were selected that describes the use of Internet of Things in urban cities and the
challenges that the urban cities faces and the ways to mitigate the issues.
Literature Review
In the article stated by Arasteh et al. (2016), it is very challenging to get the big data
safely in different applications of social network related with the digital devices. The challenges