App controlled: Cloud service oriented smart city traffic management

With the advent Internet in the 1990s to the present day facilities of ubiquitous computing, the Internet has changed the computing world in a drastic way. It has traveled from the concept of parallel computing to distributed computing to grid computing and recently to cloud computing. Anatomy of Cloud Computing is discussed in detail. Essential features of cloud services which are useful for the reduction of traffic congestion in the city is presented. Storage of data into cloud and retrieving data from the cloud from mobile application is presented, this theme is used as main platform to solve the traffic related problems in the city, as the traffic congestion has influenced on the citizens routine. The practical challenge faced using the open source cloud during the implementation needs a special mention.