The Integration of Cloud Computing and Internet of Things to Enable Sustainable Smart Cities

The immense pressure on resources and infrastructure exerted by rapid urbanization poses challenges that remain unmet by existing solutions. Efforts towards making an eco-friendly and sustained city revolve around maximizing resource use in an urban setting by exploiting information as well as communication technologies. The paper proposes a complementary Internet of Things and cloud solution that aims at enhancing resource use within an eco-friendly framework of the city. The proposed approach uses input/output of data from/to an IoT sensor/actuator layer. The proposed solution provides an extension involving an edge layer in order to ensure low latency. Simulation details of the proposed solution on energy management at a district level convey that the proposed solution decreases peak energy demand by ۱۸%, as well as total energy use by ۱۰%, as against the non-cloud approach. The paper discusses various aspects of proposed solutions.

کلیدواژه ها:

Smart city ، Internet of Things ، cloud computing ، energy management ، edge computing ، sustainability