Exploring the Impact of the Internet of Things on Smart Cities: Opportunities, Challenges, and Future Directions
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: The enormous utilization of Internet of Things (IoT) is allowing Smart City projects and initiatives all over the world. The IoT is a modular approach to merge various sensors with all the solutions. Due to the advancements in technologies, smart cities have been considered as a versatile parameter in order to control, monitor and operate in different fields (like electrical fault detection, corporation duties etc.) in an efficient manner without costing much of time and manpower thereby making the city smarter than before. Cities canbe interfaced with Internet of Things(IoT) which finds many applications in the conversion of a city to a Smart City. In this paper, a sincere attempt has been taken to list out the essentials of Smart Cities and to overcome the issues faced by normal cities. Also, the main purpose of this paper is that of providing a detailed review on the concepts of smart cities and their applications in different fields. In particular, this concept describes the IoT technologies for smart cities and the main features of a smart city. Keywords: Internet of Things(IoT), smart city, environment, sensors, electrical system.
Author: Ashwani Sharma
Institution: Dr. A.P.J. Abdul Kalam Technical University
Language: English
Subfield: Media Technology
Field: Engineering
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4410824088