Improving the reliability of IoT based Smart Solutions in Smart Cities of India

The 100 Smart Cities Mission in India was launched by Honorable Prime Minister Narendra Modi on June 25, 2015, with an objective to promote sustainable and inclusive cities that provide core infrastructure to give a decent quality of life, a clean and sustainable environment through application of some smart solutions such as data driven traffic management, intelligent lighting systems, etc. This paper gives an insight into the method of using a smart pole, various IoT devices used in a smart pole and their usage in creating smart applications. The main objective of this paper is to analyze the current methods of using smart pole, the challenges faced & propose a solution for the challenges and how the use of smart poles can be extended to the suburbs of the smart cities so that some of the UNSDG goals like disaster risk reduction, access to information can be addressed.