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Impact of IoT-Based Smart Cities on Human Daily Life

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The Internet of things (IoT) has become one of the principle applied technologies in the past few years. In this chapter, you will read about how the IoT has an impact on certain fields and on human daily life. You will also read about the basic features of Smart Cities and why a modern city is given that name, along with some of its problems and solutions. In addition, this chapter discusses the role of 5G technology in the IoT and big data analysis. Lastly, it will include the main features of the 2030 vision in Saudi Arabia for Smart Cities to enhance human daily lives along with conceptual and block diagrams.

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Latif, G., Alghazo, J.M., Maheswar, R., Jayarajan, P., Sampathkumar, A. (2020). Impact of IoT-Based Smart Cities on Human Daily Life. In: Rani, S., Maheswar, R., Kanagachidambaresan, G., Jayarajan, P. (eds) Integration of WSN and IoT for Smart Cities. EAI/Springer Innovations in Communication and Computing. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38516-3_6

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