articleIEEE Internet of Things JournalFeb 1, 2014HYBRID OA

Internet of Things for Smart Cities

AZAndréa ZanellaNBNicola BuiACAngelo CastellaniLVLorenzo VangelistaMZMichele Zorzi

University of Padua · Consorzio Futuro in Ricerca · +1 more institution

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Abstract

The Internet of Things (IoT) shall be able to incorporate transparently and seamlessly a large number of different and heterogeneous end systems, while providing open access to selected subsets of data for the development of a plethora of digital services. Building a general architecture for the IoT is hence a very complex task, mainly because of the extremely large variety of devices, link layer technologies, and services that may be involved in such a system. In this paper, we focus specifically to an urban IoT system that, while still being quite a broad category, are characterized by their specific application domain. Urban IoTs, in fact, are designed to support the Smart City vision, which aims at…

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  • Computer science
  • Software deployment
  • Smart city
  • Architecture
  • Variety (cybernetics)
  • Internet of Things
  • Task (project management)
  • Telecommunications
UN Sustainable Development Goals
  • Sustainable cities and communities
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