Big Data Analytics for Internet of Things

7Smart Cities and the Internet of Things

Hemant Garg¹, Sushil Gupta², and Basant Garg³

¹The PSCADB LTD, Chandigarh, India

²Department of Bio‐Sciences, Lovely Professional University, Punjab, India

³Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Government of India, Udyog Bhawan, New Delhi, India

7.1 Introduction

Since the advent of the Internet in the early 1990s, a lot of advances have been made in its backbone infrastructure it being digital technology, as well as its supportive and symbiotic systems. Consequently, the Internet has developed from a simple network of rudimentary computing terminals to a complex interconnected system of devices, sensors, storage devices, artificial intelligence processors, and appliances. The same development has resulted in the Internet becoming the Internet of Things (IoT), which is currently a complex network of digital devices, processors, sensors, storage devices, transport systems, and software that learns like neural networks. The same is able to collect data discriminately, process it, learn from it, store it, and make changes that amount to intelligent responses.

Smart cities are one of the products of the IoT where a city’s transport, administration, water and power management, security, and human resources infrastructures are subjected to a network of computing devices supported by sensors, controllers, and storage devices that seek to collect and manage data in order ensure resources are well utilized [1]. The data necessary for such crucial ...