Designing, Developing, and Facilitating Smart Cities

Abstract

The Internet of Things (IoT) paradigm is expected to play a key role in the realization of Smart Cities characterized by heterogeneous service and stakeholders. The IoT ecosystem is further characterized by multiple available communication technologies and solutions with distinctive features in terms of network architectures, performance, cost, flexibility and availability. We provide here an overview of the main IoT-based communication technologies which can enable smart services for Smart Cities, further commenting on the main advantages, disadvantages and open challenges involved in applying each technology to the Smart City ecosystem.