ABSTRACT
According to 2017 reports of the International Data Corporation (IDC), it is expected that by 2018 the global investment would cross more than $81 billion regarding investments in smart city initiatives, and $158 billion by 2022. The smart city basically leverages the cognitive intelligence by connecting various infrastructures like physical, social, business and information and communication technology (ICT) within the city. It is noted that the smart city technologies and services not only have to provide utilities, but also should be able to generate longer return investment and cash flow for future investments out of the deployed smart city projects. The technologies and services should provide data availability for the applications, standardization of AIS and interoperable platform for applications. Hence, the first part of this chapter is about technological and service aspects of the smart city. With this aspect, the Internet of things (IoT) has become a promising vision that can provide a unified large-scale ICT platform and unshackle the huge potential of the smart city. The IoT is a universal, dynamic self-organizing network of infrastructure in which physical things directly communicate based on standardized protocols and services for the smart city. Hence, the second part of this work focuses on the principle components for enabling the smart city through IoT.
