IoT for Smart City Services

Abstract

Internet of Things" (IoT) and "Smart City" are widely recognized to address the complexity of modern city operation. Concentration of population, scarcity of resources and environmental concerns are the main challenges that face city operators, and make ordinary service provisioning less efficient. In city environment, IoT sensors can be sources of real-time data; and, IoT actuators can execute real-time actions in the physical domain. IoT systems range from domain-specific to cross-sectoral systems where valuable data/ information flow across interconnected complex systems. Yet, to integrate domain-specific IoT systems into the complete vision of Smart City, as a System of Systems (SoS), there is a need to address heterogeneity of data sources, diversity of application domains and the big number of stakeholders across different phases of lifecycle. This paper suggests Service Lifecycle Management (SLM) concepts and Lifecycle Modeling Language (LML) to analyze, plan, specify, design, build and maintain IoT-enabled Smart City Service Systems.

Lifecycle Management in the Smart City Context: Smart Parking Use-Case

“…As it was proposed in previous research in [12], [13] and [14], and in line with ambitions of many cities and states around the world, there is a need for a more holistic vision of smart city as a complete ecosystem. This paper carries on the proposed lifecycle approach to ensure systematic involvement and seamless flow of information between different stakeholders of the smart city ecosystem.…”

“…To better understand some of the abovementioned SCLM aspects, this section carries on the use-case, presented in [13], for smart parking system. The proposed scenario was examined in collaboration with the on-going H2020 project named "bIoTope"0 F 1 to use the O-MI/ O-DF standards to exchange data between different nodes in the proposed smart parking system.…”

“…This paper focuses only on the lifecycle aspect of the smart parking system. As detailed in [13], the proposed smart parking system allocates parking spaces to users, based on the preferred entrance and eligibility to use allocated spots for people with disability. In this paper, we propose to use smart parking systems in FIFA World Cup 2022 stadia in Qatar.…”

The impact of internet of things on customer service: A preliminary study

“…IoT as [14] discuss is an emerging matter of economic importance, technical and social, Consumer products, industrial components and many other items are being joined with Internet connectivity and data analytic abilities that will lead to convert the living way [15]. In the future IoT will affect the world econom, and around billions devices will be work through IoT, in addition the global economy impact of more than 11 trillion dollar [16]. The term IoT is also named as the Internet of Everything [17,18].…”

IoT-based Smart Parking System for Sporting Event Management

“…The Qatar government 3 expressed an interest in exploring and developing 3 Qatar government is closely working with Qatar University to investigate and develop appropriate IoT solutions in view of this sporting event first proofs-of-concept using the O-MI/O-DF standards [7]. In our scenario, each spectator has a unique profile that holds personal information, payment tools, and booked stadium seat numbers.…”