Bhagya Nathali Silva, Murad Khan, Kijun Han,
Towards sustainable smart cities: A review of trends, architectures, components,
and open challenges in smart cities,
Sustainable Cities and Society,
Volume 38,
2018,
Pages 697-713,
ISSN 2210-6707,
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scs.2018.01.053.
(https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2210670717311125)
Abstract: Smart city is an application of Internet of Things (IoT) notion.
Unceasing growth of population and urbanization have intensified innovative ways to
handle urbanization with minimal impact on environment, citizen lifestyles, and
governance. Initial integration of information communication technology (ICT) into
city operations have promoted telicity, information city, and digital city
concepts. Later, the conception of IoT has founded the smart cities, which support
the city operations intelligently with minimal human interaction. Smart city
emerged as a solution to address the challenges arise with exponential growth of
urbanization and population. However, smart city concept is still evolving and not
mainstreamed throughout the globe due to technological, economical, and governing
barriers. Therefore, this paper aims to deliver the essence of smart cities. The
paper presents a brief overview of smart cities, followed by the features and
characteristics, generic architecture, composition, and real-world implementations
of smart cities. Finally, we present some challenges and opportunities identified
through extensive literature survey on smart cities.
Keywords: Internet of things; Smart city architectures; Communication in smart
cities; Wireless sensor network; IoT applications
