Beyond Devices and Things
A smart city goes beyond the basic premise of devices interacting intelligently with each other. A citizen residing in a smart city will be able to interact with the systems and extract relevant and contextual information from it. These interactions will be aided by personal devices (smartphones, watches and other wearables) that citizens carry with them at all times. The emphasis will be on these devices interacting with each other and relaying relevant information to the native resident. For instance, garbage trucks can be alerted using sensors that waste needs to collect from specific locations. This is an effective waste disposal method to help keep upcoming smart cities clean. Another good example is sensors embedded in cars to direct them to available parking spaces nearby.
Intelligent applications
The applications that will be developed and put to use can help cities in India conserve energy and use the available resources in hand in a much more effective manner. Some applications that have might be developed for the smart cities will include intelligent street lighting. These streetlights will be able to use energy much more sustainability by switching themselves off when there is no use for lighting. Using extensive mapping techniques, these systems will be able to understand the different demand of energy in various part of the cities better, allowing the system to distribute energy more efficiently.
The upcoming smart cities in India will also implement extensive CCTV networks to help facilitate better monitoring to fight crime along with ensuring women safety at all hours. For the smart cities to be IoT-enabled, the government will have to create multiple streams of data that can be collected and analysed.
Conclusion
The Indian government’s initiative will only accelerate the pace of IoT adoption, not only in India but globally. The government will have to attract organisations capable of developing software and hardware applications with the Internet of Things at its core. The plan of developing 100 smart cities is a humongous task in hand, which if accomplished, will thrust the Internet of Things into a new era of interconnected and intelligent machines in India.
------------------
About the Author
Naveen Joshi has extensive experience in customizing open source products. Currently, he is working on IoT solutions with Big Data Analytics
Comments
Pranav Shukla
smart city plan is definitely an appreciable plan of incumbent govt. as part of "mission transform nation". though IoT sounds bit bizarre but with stretching accessibility of broadband services, decreasing cost of connecting, smart phones penetrating every segment of the market, more devices being built with inbuilt sensors, the plan seems set to succeed. majority of us are still sceptical about its mechanism and bonafide benefits it's supposed to dispense. it's no more a utopian dream as it has already been functional in many countries. In Bangalore, Cisco is working to set up a smart grid-based Education City, where all the utilities will be integrated with data.Outside Mumbai, the Lodha group has given IBM a contract to build all data systems in their Palava city project.
4 Feb 2016, 10.29 PM
Mridul Agrawal
Can you please explain what exactly is the INTERNET OF Things?
5 Feb 2016, 12.42 PM
Pranav Shukla
iot is a netwrk of miscellaneous devices with on and off switch and internet. simplifying it further , iot is a concept where devices like ur cell phone, coffee maker, toaster, washing machine, head phone ,lamps will get interconnected via internet to facilitate you in best possible way. let's take an example of real life to elucidate it -suppose u wake up at 6 am .devices and other people connected wth you will take notice of it and act accordingly. coffee maker may start brewing coffee, treadmill could inform you that u're getting late for a meeting. what if any device tells you that your productivity increases after having particular lunch! it certainly opens the door for innumerable opportunities but challenges also lie ahead. ppl are apprehensive about the potential threats to security of information. if one hacks any of the gadget in your iot ,ur privacy of information will unfold.
6 Feb 2016, 03.02 PM