Internet of Things in Smart Cities

Smart city is no more a future concept; now it is becoming the reality. A smart city is an approach of the city to provide core infrastructure and a decent quality of life to the people with a clean, sustainable environment and technologically evolved smart solutions. The concept of has been with us for a very long time. Scientists from 90s, they were already thinking about smart cities is the future but, due to lack of technological knowledge, resources and infrastructure, they couldn’t succeed to build one. However, now the things have changed, we have advanced technologies and peoples with creative, innovative and intelligent brains. Thousands of people, around the world, are working on various projects to make smart IoT (internet of thing) devices which will help to build a smart city and eventually a smart world. Kevin Ashton, who is known as father of IoT, once said” the internet of thing is about empowering computers so they can see, hear and smell the world for themselves”.

The basic idea behind developing IoT is to connect all the possible devices that we use in our daily life to the internet. Issues with resources like water and energy as well as increasing awareness of safety, security and efficiency are driving the need for more information and better option to connect and manage the advanced sensors to build the smarter world. In a few years, global national and regional networks will connect trillions of wireless devices. It could be anything that we can think of such as refrigerator, coffee maker, watches, microwave oven, washing machine, headphone, lights, car and many more. The space for IoT devices is growing and according to the statistic portal, there will 75.44 billion connected devices by 2025. Even a single house will be equipped with hundreds of sensors and devices, which will be sending and receiving data from and to the internet. The Internet of thing is going to connect the world. The best part is, we will be able to monitor and control all the device that is connected to the internet.

Benefits of deploying IoT:

It will help to make better transportation system. People are already using IoT devices to solve traffic problems in the road by placing different sensors which are sending real time updates about traffic, accident through the internet so that people can take better decision. Autonomous vehicles are the top example of IoT devices in today’s context, in near future IoT networks would help these vehicles to talk to each other. This will help to improve the traffic condition on the road and help to increase the traffic security. Monitoring, control, optimization and automation (this is where the machine learning and Artificial comes in).

IoT platforms:

• Operating system
• Cloud servies
• Data storage
• Data processing.