IoT in Smart Cities
IoT is the Internet of Things; it is a network of physical objects (things) embedded with sensors, networks, and other technologies that connect and exchange data over the internet, improving efficiency and convenience in smart cities. It includes traffic management with adaptive signals and real-time efforts, smart energy and utility management.
What are Smart Cities?
Smart cities help in the development of a country, and use technology to improve the quality of life, efficiency, safety, and convenience for people living in them. It uses AI, IoT, and other technologies to perform these services.
Good Impact of IoT on Smart Cities
- Helps in management: IoT helps in the management of energy, water and waste by providing real-time data on various things.
- Can be personalised: IoT can be personalised for a specific person or purpose, which makes it convenient to use.
- Real time Information: IoT provides real-time information on utilities, etc, in areas such as logistics and inventory, thereby enabling proper management.
- Ensures safety: IoT helps ensure safety, such as in healthcare and the workplace, by using sensors to monitor real-time conditions.
- Citizen involvement: IoT enables citizens to participate in the city’s operations by tracking real-time information, filing complaints about poor services, and helping address them.
- Predicts cost: IoT sensors help predict maintenance costs based on equipment performance, usage trends, etc., helping minimise maintenance costs.
- Improves the standard of living: IoT helps in improving the standard of living in cities by keeping track of activities and increasing efficiency and safety
- Provides safety: IoT provides safety to people by keeping real real-time track of the environment and ensuring safety.
- Increases efficiency: IoT helps in increasing efficiency by data-driven decision making, predicts maintenance costs and ensures proper services.
- Production: Automation of tasks through IoT helps in increasing production by increasing production level and less reliance on human labour.
Poor impact of IoT on smart cities
- Reduced physical activity: People relying on such networks for all tasks can lead to a sedentary lifestyle.
- Eats up job opportunities: Reliance on such a network can reduce the need for physical labour, which can ultimately reduce job opportunities for people.
- Proper facilities are required: Such a system requires proper facilities to operate, such as an internet network, etc, without these, it cannot operate properly.
- May leak private data: Since IoT is internet-based technology, there are chances that private data of people can be leaked here, reducing its reliability.
- Requires information: To operate IoT, proper information is required; otherwise, it cannot be operated.
Conclusion:
IoT has improved the standard and quality of life, safety, and convenience in smart cities, and has helped manage energy and water resources. But it also has a few negative impacts, like it replaces jobs and can be hacked. Therefore, it becomes necessary to have the best IoT networks. At Softlogic Australia, we specialise in crafting innovative software solutions. Softlogic Australia provides various services, such as an IoT solution which helps ensure safety and efficiency.
