Smart Cities are emerging as the most promising scheme of urban revolution in India, and in general across the world. A smart city project implements IoT solutions and services to improve the quality of life of its residents, while unlocking efficiencies across smart traffic management, sanitation and waste management, energy consumption and pollution control.
Applications and Role of IoT in Smart Cities
Smart City infrastructure encompasses multiple IoT solutions, which empower the smart city authorities to efficiently manage public amenities and offer an improved quality of life for the residents. In this article, we have covered an overview of IoT devices, IoT solutions and IoT platforms that find application in smart city infrastructure. The details of each topic has been covered separately in the respective articles:
Smart Traffic Management and Intelligent Parking Management in Smart Cities
Traffic decongestion and intelligent parking management are the two biggest challenges for the development authorities of Smart City projects. Since public safety and security is one of the core inherent promises of a smart city, IoT platforms integrated with smart city networks require a strong focus on smart traffic management to reduce accidents and mishaps.
