Internet of Things (IoT) in Smart City

Dear Colleagues,

The integration of Internet of Things (IoT) technology in smart cities has gained significant attention due to its potential to enhance urban living, sustainability, and efficiency. The IoT in smart city systems encompasses a wide range of applications, including smart transportation, smart grid, energy management, healthcare, public safety, and environmental monitoring. As these systems become more complex and interconnected, addressing the unique challenges and exploring innovative solutions becomes crucial.

This Special Issue aims to present cutting-edge research on IoT in smart city systems, focusing on addressing the challenges associated with their design, deployment, and operation. It seeks to gather high-quality contributions and comprehensive review papers that explore novel frameworks, methodologies, algorithms, and applications to advance the state-of-the-art in this field. The purpose of this Special Issue is to collect selected papers reporting on topics including the latest IoT technologies and schemes for building sustainable and livable smart cities, ranging from theoretical advancements to practical implementations, with a particular emphasis on IoT-enabled smart transportation systems, smart grid IoT, efficient and optimized operation strategies, IoT-based healthcare systems, security and privacy in IoT-enabled smart cities, environmental monitoring and sustainability in smart cities, integration of edge computing, cloud computing, IoT for efficient data processing and real-time analytics, intelligent IoT infrastructure and network management, etc. By addressing the challenges and exploring new opportunities, we can pave the way for a future where IoT-driven smart cities enhance the quality of life for citizens worldwide.

Dr. Heli Zhang
Prof. Dr. Nan Yang
Dr. Djamel Djenouri
Guest Editors

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