The world’s population is increasing at a tremendous pace. As per recent figures, almost 3.9 billion people are living in cities. By 2050, it is estimated that almost two-thirds of the world population will shift to urban areas. The rapid increase of the population density inside urban environments, infrastructures, and services has been needed to supply the requirements of the citizens. So, cities need to be smart, if only to survive as platforms that allow economic, social and environmental safety.
A smart city is the one that uses information and communications technologies (ICT) to make the city services and monitoring more aware, interactive and competent. Smartness of a city is driven and enabled technologically by the growing Internet of Things (IoT)- a radical evolution of the current Internet into a global network of interconnected objects that not only gathers information from the environments (sensing) and interacts with the physical world, but also uses existing Internet standards to provide services for information transfer, analytics, and applications.
IoT Technologies for Smart Cities
The IoT is a broadband network that employs standard communication protocols, whereas the Internet would be its merging point. The major idea of the IoT is the widespread existence of objects which are ...
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