Date of Publication :30th November 2017

Abstract: Internet of Things (IoT) is an advanced automation and analytics system which make full use of networking, sensing, big data and artificial intelligence technology to deliver complete systems for a product or service. IoT visualizes to connect billions of sensors to the Internet and expects to use them for efficient and effective resource management in Smart Cities. This paper presents an in-depth literature survey for making a city “smart”. The purpose of this article is to summarize the present state of understanding the smart city concept and to present a proposed communication platform for the development of city services with the use of IoT concepts. Paper initially introduces the origin and the main issues of smart city concept and then presents the fundamentals of a smart city by analyzing its definition and application domains. Further, a data-centric view of smart city architectures is depicted. Thereafter, Smart City concept includes many aspects of city management like smart energy, smart water management, smart transportation and smart health. Such applications touch upon in this article. Finally, a zone-wise architecture of recent smart city research is presented. The proposed framework is based on a hierarchical model of data storage and defines how different stakeholders will be communicating and offering services to citizens. The architecture facilitates step by step implementation of the aforesaid services of smart city and their integration with the usage of central cloud.

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