Drone Technology

9Drones Enable IoT Applications for Smart Cities

R. Santosh Kumar^1*, LNC Prakash K.² and G. Suryanarayana³

¹ Department of Computer Science & Engineering, Vasavi College of Engineering, Hyderabad, India

² Department of Computer Science and Engineering, CVR College of Engineering, Hyderabad, India

³ Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Vardhaman College of Engineering, Hyderabad, India

Abstract

Around the world, the concept of a smart city is becoming an increasingly important research area. The amount of data collected and the number of mounted sensors, the surveillance equipment, and other gadgets that must be installed in a smart city are so large that using a mobile platform to monitor and keep replacing them can save effort and materials. Currently, people are experiencing rapid evolution in every field, owing to continuing developments in communication technology and other advances such as fully independent autonomous drones. These developments have already led to an improvement in people’s lives, such as in wellbeing or quality of life, in the energy sector, in the shipping industry, in the supervision and surveillance guidelines for large households and commercial projects. As such, this chapter discusses the assimilation of the most widely used communication technology trend, the Internet of things (IoT), with drones or unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The uses of IoT in UAVs to examine numerous buildings in smart cities are evaluated and the use of such ...