A Novel Approach Toward Enhancing the Quality of Life in Smart Cities Using Clouds and IoT-Based Technologies

Abstract

The smart city means using information technologies as per the needs of citizens in order to improve their day-to-day activities with high efficiency and decrease the living cost. The development of the smart city is the process of urbanization which can further improve the efficiency, reliability, and security of a city. The integration of communication and information technologies with the Internet of Things (IoT) and artificial intelligence (AI) techniques will be helpful for the urban/metro city areas in the overall management of schools, colleges, universities, libraries, power plants, transportation systems, waste management, hospitals, water supply, law enforcement, and other community services. The information and digital technologies will be used by end users and office administrations for the overall management of the things related to urban/metro city areas. The information and communication technologies (ICT) will allow officials of the city to interact/communicate directly with social communities and the infrastructure of the city will be available to the city officials on their fingertips. This chapter describes the economic benefits, implementation costs, and challenges toward the development of a smart city and its integration with cloud computing, IoT, and AI technologies. In this research work, we have tried to study the existing technologies, and we have proposed a novel architecture of a smart city which incorporates IoT, AI, and distributed cloud computing technologies and the smart city will have its own independent self-management system for managing almost everything related to the needs of our daily life. The proposed work will be helpful in maintaining the ecological system of the earth and the use of clean solar energy is making it friendly to the environment.