Introduction
Smart City Services
Smart
City Services, Such a transportation, pollution management, and Disaster
management
The
Smart City is used for the serval years, through the number of the technology, where
the company serves the description of the application of compound systems. For the
urban infrastructure to integrate the operations as well as services, for example,
transportation, management of pollution, along with the disaster managements.
The description of the smart city is explained as,
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By the use of the network infrastructure,
as well as software systems, the real world urban data to be analyzed as well
as collected.
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By the supports of the interconnection of sensors,
actuators, implements the solutions
For
the Commercial objectives of the IoT, there is the remarkable growth of the
digital devices, like the smartphone, sensors, and actuators. Based on the
smart infrastructure the smart transportation is developed, that includes
automated traffic signals, fare as well as toll collection not only the multi-nodal
conveyances. The smart cities services offers various benefits, like the smart
parking as well as the systems of vehicles locating along with the route of a
diversion alerts .The smart transportation through the real-time as well as
updated data , that handling the information of passengers , incidents of managements
, along with the traffic signals plus the health monitoring vehicles (Novotný & et.al, 2014).
IoT
Hardware of Smart City Services
The critical components
for the IoT solution are the IoT Hardware. Components of the IoT hardware can
vary form the low-power boards, as well as also have the single processors
board same as the Arduino , that is basically below the smaller boards and
plugged into the mainboard to enhance plus increase its functionality (TEAM, 2018).
Now, there are various
building block of the IoT hardware, and we discuss the some IoT Hardware.
IoT
Hardware-Building Block
The most important, in
the IoT hardware is the Sensors. There are various devices that consist of the
variety of modules, for examples, RF modules, energy modules, plus the
management modules along with the sensing modules.
Figure
2: IoT-hardware –Sensors
Now the IoT hardware for
the smart cities, like for the pollution management, sensors are that hardware,
which manufactures the measurable response for the amendment to exceedingly
healthiness for the pollution. Through the sensors, the associate log signal is
send that is digitalized through an analog to the digital devices along with
the send controller for the several processing. We able to select the acceptable,
because have the various kinds of the detector along with the appropriate sensor
that is relying.
Sensors of Smart City Services
There are following sensors
that are applied for the management of the pollutions;
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The first sensor is CO sensors, which
sense the gas as well as it communicates the information by the microcontroller
(Saha & et.al, 2017).
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The second sensor is N sensors, this is
the chemical element sensors, which sense a gas along with communicate an
information by the microcontroller
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For the pollution management as well as
the disaster management the second sensor is Smoke sensors, that sense the
smoke gas, along with the communicate by the microcontroller
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And the last sensors is the temperature detector,
that sense the temperature plus communicate the information through the microcontroller
Figure
3; Sensors data Abstraction Model
Microcontroller of Smart City Services
The
Microcontroller, like the ARM, which processes the knowledge that perform the
management as well as task, practically by the different components during a
detector node. One of the ARM processes, that is based on mostly of the microcontroller
which run on the load-store to reduce the instructor set for the architecture
by the register of 32-bit plus the stuck length of the op-code.4GB memory address,
is provided by the designed (Sowe & et.al, 2014)
IoT
software of Smart City Services
The
IOT software are includes as the various soft wares and programming languages
which is commonly used for the IoT works and programming languages which are
commonly used by the programmer. First of all due to the embedded system it
have less processing power and storage. The needs of their languages are
commonly different. Few of the operating system which are commonly sued for
this embedded system re known as; OSs like Ubuntu Core or Android and Linux or UNIX-like.
The
IoT software includes as the very wide rages of the software as well as the
programming languages according to general purposes of the language like as
java and C++ for embedded particular choices such as Parasail
and Google’s Go language.
Overview
of IoT Software in Smart City Services
C & C++:
The
roots of the C programming languages has been founded in the embedded system. It
have taken its start from the programming of the switches of the telephone. It
can be used by every programmer at everywhere and it is considered as the one
of the global products. The objects oriented
version of the C language is known as the C++ and it popular for the languages of
the android and Linux OS which are embedded on IoT software system. These all
languages are decided for the system of the hard ware which makes the all of
the function easy to use.
Java in Smart City Services
Although
the C++ and C are considered as the hardware specific and the code of the Java
is referred as the more portable. It is considered as to write in one language and
then it read anywhere at where the libraries are required to install. By using this software the time will be invest
one time for writing the codes and then it can use for multiple purposes.
IoT Cloud Services
& Resources of Smart City Services
The
internet of things is refer as the devices which are connected with the internet
and it can be used to performing the services and processes which is required
to supporting our way of life. For succeeding the IoT another components is
selected as the cloud computing which is performing the sort of front end.
Role
of Cloud Computing in IoT Smart City Services
There
is complimentary relationship among the IoT and cloud computing. The massive amounts
of the data is generated by the IoT meanwhile the cloud computing is used to offering
the various path ways for traveling the data toward its particular destination.
Than it used to increasing the
efficiency of the work. To thinking
about the capacity of the infra-structure is not required in this process. The
agility and speed can easily increase by the cloud computing o0f any software.
The resources becomes available for the developers. It is also used saving the
cost for deploying the applications as well as for operating the data centers.
Due
to the rapid growth of the cloud based services for the several devices it
becomes the witness of the growth for computing and storage services to
supporting the several devices. The communications networks must be upgrades
and it includes the higher speeds of the cellular system which is considerd as
the rival pace for the home networks (ESDS, 2018).
Figure 1: Architecture for smart city
IoT data
Management of Smart City Services
The
data management is necessary ion any field for the IoT devoices to managing the
data is particular. To managing the data
is refer to executing and developing the procedures, architectures and policies
which are required to meet the complete life cycle of the data. It is used to posing the unique
challenges. The below given figure is showing the infrastructure of the smart
city as it is intended by the smart cities. The data is provided by the various
sensors in to the platforms of the data as well as the actuators for the city
for receiving the actuation commands to the several platforms. The interfaces
are offered by the platforms for the services of the various kinds just like as
control and metering of energ7y consumption. It includes traffic in city and
transportation links (Bohli, 2015).
Figure 2: Visualization of smart city infrastructure
Scalability and Agility of Smart City Services
Good
data management of the IoT devices are includes as the IoT data traffic and the
sheer size of the company is also includes in this. Its immediacy makes this
Data Management issue most pressing.
IoT Security &
privacy Challenges of Smart City Services
The
huge parts of the city infrastructure are controlling and monitoring by the
platform smart city which is required to introducing the new threats and their
related securities. These all securities will be protect to citizens by
providing the privacy from the threats to the city's infrastructure. For protecting
the smart cities and their infrastructure the basic rules for the information
security are; availability, integrity and confidentiality. It requires to be
protected the smart cities from several aspects.
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To protect the privacy of citizens it requires
confidentiality and it needs for protecting the valuable information of
stakeholders in the city.
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The data is protected by the integrity
against the modifications which can leads towards the harmful decision. It is also used to confirming the request of
the authenticity for avoiding the unauthorized changes in the smart cities (Bohli, 2015).
Challenges & Limitations of Smart City Services
For
the implementation of the smart cities, based on the IoT, there are few
challenges;
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Security
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Reliability
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Heterogeneity
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Large Scale
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Legal and Social Aspects
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Big Data
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Sensor Network
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DR barriers
Security for the implementation
of Smart cities
In
the several platform of IoT, when complete information is evaluated as well as gathers,
and then the system might be confront the great attacks for examples, cross
site scripting as well as the side channel. The security problem is created,
through the multi-tenancy, and its results is the data leakage. Then the cities
is adopted the proper measures for the ensures of the privacy as well as security.
Against the cyber-attack, all the system must be resistant, and it is particularly
has the critical infrastructure as the smart meter. For the successful implementation
of the IoT, the smart cities place the security. In the below figure there are
some aspects of the security of IoT;
Figure: Security Aspect in IoT
Reliability of Smart City Services
The
smart city that is based on the IoT, have server reliability problem. For
example regarding to transportation, like car, the interconnection of mobility among
them is not the reliable. There is the huge technologies reading to the
pollution managements, also lead the some reliability challenges (Talari & et.al, 2017).
DR Barriers of Smart City Services
The
contribution for the responsive demand in systems, then the IoT is able to
assist this. In the DR programs, there are still barriers that could restrict the
participations. In the below figure, these barriers could categories into three
key set
Figure: DR Barriers