An IoT-Based Framework toward a Feasible Safe and Smart City Using Drone Surveillance

Abstract

In progress toward smart city environments, which revolves around improving city services, sustainability, and citizen’s quality of life; information and communication technology (ICT) can be influential. The development and consolidation of IoT-based smart city applications are supported by software platforms. However, there are few environmental, social, and technological challenges before these platforms that the ICT community must overcome. Due to these difficulties, a variety of scenarios in various situations for IoT-enabled smart cities have been considered. This chapter throws light on the major issues with the smart city project and the measures taken in the favor of these challenges. Also, in this chapter, work is proposed which demonstrates the use of drones in the surveillance of the cities thus ensuring a safer smart city. A smart city offers reliable e-services, a higher quality of living, and serves the needs of its residents daily. This is part of India’s ambitious “Digital India 2030” plan to develop smart cities across the country, where the Internet of Things (IoT), modern networks, smart solutions, and, ICT in the event of natural disasters are all important to achieve this objective. Residents of smart cities produce a vast amount of data as a result of their behavior daily, which, if gathered and processed, could aid smart cities in being more effective, people-friendly, clean, and stable.