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Machine-to-machine (M2M) communications for smart cities

I. Vilajosana1; M. Dohler1,2    1 Worldsensing, Barcelona, Spain2 King’s College, London (KCL), London, UK

Abstract

We are observing a steady increase in the deployment of machine-to-machine (M2M) technologies in urban environments. It is the beginning of a paradigm referred to as the ‘smart city’ where smartness is added to city infrastructure through sensors, big data, and other capabilities. This chapter reviews currently used smart city M2M technologies that are shortly to appear. It dwells in great detail on one of the most prominent deployment use cases, i.e., smart parking. The more holistic problem of handling data in advanced platforms, and how to offer it to the emerging ...

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