An IoT based Framework for Smart City Services

Smart city is an emerging concept that aims to improve the quality of city life, to enhance the efficiency of urban operations and services as well as to create a sustainable economic growth of the city. Internet-of-Things (IoT) and big data have emerged as key enabling technologies for smart city services infrastructure. A major issue in the design of smart city services is the provision of Internet connectivity anywhere within the cities through some suitable network infrastructure. Although the use cases for various smart city services and business models for delivering smart city services have been proposed in the literature over the past few years, none of them attempts to address the problem of dealing with heterogeneous technologies required for collecting and processing data to offer such services. Thus, this paper proposes a suitable framework for smart city services based on IoT to address the above-mentioned issues.