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Internet of Things (IoT) Infrastructures for Smart Cities

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Smart City promises to enhance resource utility, cost-effectiveness, sustainability and living conditions in urban environments by utilizing Internet-of-Things (IoT) infrastructures. This chapter presents a comprehensive survey on the architectural design and key wireless communication technologies that enable Smart City applications. In addition, with the adoption and installation of IoT devices on a city-wide scale, securing these devices and the associated communications networks becomes an important issue. As a result, this chapter then continue with a survey to discuss potential security threats for IoT devices in a Smart-City environment, possible countermeasures and open research issues.

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    Urban population – World Bank: http://data.worldbank.org/indicator/SP.URB.TOTL.IN.ZS?end=2015&start=1960&view=chart

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    World Population Prospects – UN: http://www.un.org/en/development/desa/news/population/world-urbanization-prospects-2014.html

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    Other Smart City aspects, such as smart governance, smart people, and smart economy [10] also benefit from data produced by IoT applications, but are beyond the scope of this chapter.

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Le-Dang, Q., Le-Ngoc, T. (2018). Internet of Things (IoT) Infrastructures for Smart Cities. In: Maheswaran, M., Badidi, E. (eds) Handbook of Smart Cities. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97271-8_1

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