Internet of things (IoT) infrastructures for smart cities

Abstract

Smart City promises to enhance resource utility, cost-effectiveness, sustainability and living conditions in urban environments by utilizing Internet-of-Things (IoT) infrastructures. This chapter presents a comprehensive survey on the architectural design and key wireless communication technologies that enable Smart City applications. In addition, with the adoption and installation of IoT devices on a city-wide scale, securing these devices and the associated communications networks becomes an important issue. As a result, this chapter then continue with a survey to discuss potential security threats for IoT devices in a Smart-City environment, possible countermeasures and open research issues.