Internet of Things (IoT) Platforms for Smart City Implementation in Rural and Urban Communities: A Comprehensive Review
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2022-12-01
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Abstract:Several transportation agencies in urban, sub-urban, and rural have started the planning or the actual implementation of their first Smart City projects. A major element of these systems includes the Internet of Things (IoT) smart city platform help manage data exchange and flows and run the analytics needed for user data and system performance monitoring. For many agencies, IoT platform selection is very challenging with the limited technical resources most these agencies experience. Several of these IoT solutions have proprietary vendor-specific attributes that lock agencies to specific vendors’ solutions. IoT platforms developed by smaller vendors, while come with strong customer support and high degree of opennesss, face many challenges in system integration and scalability. The primary objective of this comprehensive review study is to establish an improved understanding among transportation agencies policy makers and professional regarding IoT Platform operation characteristics. Within this report there was an in-depth evaluation of 3 smart city projects developed and funded through public-private partnership, 4 smart city implementations funded through the U.S Department of Transportation (USDOT). The study also covered 3 IoT platforms currently available from different vendors. For the 7 smart city projects (public and private, they were evaluated to the criteria of system functionalities, interoperability, integrability, usability, security, and survivability. For the 3 IoT platforms, they were evaluated by comprehensiveness, total cost, expertise and smart city focus, openness, and ease of integration. This evaluation used derived industry-based criteria to assist both rural and urban transportation agencies understand the technical opportunities, challenges, and barriers from existing smart city implementation projects. Each project and vendor evaluated in this report provided a valuable insight into the current reality of smart city projects.
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