Internet of Things: Demystifying Smart Cities and Communities

This paper presents a review on the use of IoT for demystifying smart cities and communities. The upward paradigm shift in the way standard of living has evolved, has pointed at the poor impact of service delivery in human homes and cities, owing to constrained amenities and resources. As such, the smart cities and homes concept has been adopted to boost the delivery of services in both suburban and urban areas. IoT’s concept has been effective by facilitating right of entry and relations with an extensive range of devices, e.g. appliances, vehicles, security cameras, actuators, monitoring sensors, displays, etc. The increase in the development of a number of applications resulted from the existence of IoT, which allows the use of the big, rich and varied form of data generated by devices and objects to produce innovative services to individuals, organizations and government parastatals, who we identify as “users”. The urban IoT is an infrastructural communications platform which gives economical, modest and good unified admittance to surfeit of the problem in public services, leading to the birth of prospective interactions. It aims towards revealing concepts and the general framework of the design for an urban IoT, the description of its service-based architecture, the protocols necessary for its implementation and some cutting-edge technologies utilized.