The Internet of Things is making its way into our everyday life, whether we notice
it or not. Smart City deployments and solutions make up one of the largest IoT
markets in the world. These applications are developed to increase citizen safety,
save government money, reduce environment footprint and more. Here is a list of some
of the top Smart City solutions.
Smart Parking
Smart Parking is perhaps the most adopted IoT smart city solution of all. Major cities
around the world are incorporating sensors and devices that count the number of cars in
a lot, notify for open spaces and even notify users when their parking time has expired.
There are many smart parking benefits that will help transform a city into a smart city.
Waste Management
The amount of trash is globally increasing at a very high rate. Cities will be forced to
become smarter by integrating automation solutions that manage this increase in waste.
This is being done by efforts such as smart trash sorting, truck optimization and even
underground pipes collecting household garbage.
Smart Street Lighting
Every city of lights has an extensive process to managing light posts, traffic lights
and any city-owned device with a bulb. By capturing and automating smart city data
correctly, this maintenance need could be reduced to a streamlined process from
monitoring and notifying to instillation and restocking.
Water Management
Cities must manage their drinking water to ensure that citizens have enough to safely
consume. Smart city water management can include optimized contamination monitoring,
leak detection, quality control, maintenance and more.
Smart Surveillance
Safety is key in major cities that experience crime in numbers. IoT physical security
can include intelligent monitoring, tampering alerts, perimeter protection, facial
recognition and automobile tracking.
Smart Buildings
The Internet of Things is also changing building management throughout cities by
introducing smart building devices and solutions. Office building managers can save
money and provide better service to tenants by incorporating systems like remote
monitoring, smart landscaping, IoT physical security and appliance maintenance.
