Exploring IoT in Smart Cities: Applications, Challenges, Solutions

This report focuses on the applications of IoT in smart cities, addressing challenges related to efficiency, security, and human intervention. It explores methodologies for minimizing problems associated with smart devices, including rigorous testing schedules, phased production, and cloud service utilization. The report analyzes the importance of security issues and presents data on the application of smart devices over the years, highlighting their growing acceptance. It concludes that IoT can significantly impact smart cities, provided that challenges are mitigated through effective planning and implementation. The data is presented through figures and tables to illustrate the global adoption of IoT in urban environments.

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Table of Contents
Milestone 4.................................................................................................................................2
Executive Summary...................................................................................................................2
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Methodology..............................................................................................................................2
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................4
Reference....................................................................................................................................5

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Milestone 4
Executive Summary
The foremost determination of this unit of the milestone is to focus on the use of IoT in smart
cities. This unit of the assignment will be having an introduction related to the milestone 2 of
this assignment, literature review based upon the future and current work in the application of
IoT in smart cities. The report will also be focusing a specific solution of the identified
problems with proper justification. The justifications will be supported with tables and
figures. The report will conclude with a strong statement which will be helping the readers of
the document to have a perception about the application of IoT in smart cities.
Introduction
The prime determination of this report is to focus on the challenges of the IoT enabled
devices which are used in the smart cities. The issues are related to the efficiency and
productivity of the IoT enabled devices which deals with confidential data across business
organization. The other problems was the human intervention in the IoT devices which
questions the reliability and trustworthiness of the different systems such as transportation
system. The security and privacy are the other significant challenges associated with the
technology in a smart city.
Methodology
There are different methodologies which can be effectively used in the smart cities to
minimise the problems associated with the smart devices. According to Turber et al.(2014),
the applications should be subjected to major testing schedules before they are incorporated
by the citizens. As stated by Riggins& Wamba(2015), the production phase of the smart
devices should be categorised into different phases which will minimise the productions

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errors and enhance reliability and trustworthiness. According to Gubbi et al.(2015), the
privacy and security issues of the IoT enabled technologies can be solved by using the cloud
service providers rather than conventional legacy systems. As discussed by Ehret &
Wirtz(2017), the productivity of the smart devices can be maintained in the smart cities with
the help of the reorganization of the activities in the working environment.
Table 1:
Important parameters of methodology
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Application of IoT Concern
There are different types of
application of internet of
things in smart cities which
help them to optimize their
production units and achieve
their business objectives
The importance of security
issues related to the use of
the new IoT enabled systems
in smart cities is a major
concern regarding this
concept and it needs to take
care of.

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2015
2016
2017
2018
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Application of smart device over the years
Defence Research laboratories Daily activities
Figure 1: Application of IoT in smart cities
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Conclusion
From the above report, it can be determined that the application of IoT can hugely
impact any smart city. The enhanced specifications of the IoT enabled system can be
effectively used by the citizens of the smart cities in their daily activities. The challenges
related to this technology can also be effectively mitigated with the help of effective planning
before the devices are incorporated in an environment. The figures and tables used in the
report are used to understand the world-wide acceptance of IoT in smart cities all around the
world.

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Reference
Ehret, M., & Wirtz, J. (2017). Unlocking value from machines: business models and the
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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
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Riggins, F. J., & Wamba, S. F. (2015, January). Research directions on the adoption, usage,
and impact of the internet of things through the use of big data analytics.
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Turber, S., Vom Brocke, J., Gassmann, O., & Fleisch, E. (2014, May). Designing business
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