By Albert Gibosse | Blue Label Weekly Magazine | Website |
Through Their Quest To Become Smart, Cities Must Get Connected by Designing and
Implementing A Redundant IoT infrastructure
With the Internet of Things (IoT) spreading rather rapidly to more and more areas of our lives, our experiences will be greatly improved.
IoT will enable smart cities to reap the benefits of existing and upcoming technological innovations. Existing public infrastructure currently offers countless locations to place sensors to collect data on everything from pedestrian safety to traffic management. Using cloud-based analytics tools via the internet will enable city governments around the world to aggregate anonymous, raw numbers into intelligent insights that can improve how they deliver services and respond to emergencies toward improving the quality of urban life.
With all these considerations, it is imperative that cities employ proactive strategies and implement redundant plans before they can become IoT-Connected toward maximizing the return on their IoT investments.
IoT technology offer vast promise of benefits, new services as well as cost savings for smart cities that plan ahead. While IoT is becoming quite pervasive because falling costs of the devices that are involved, the degree of complexity around of collecting, managing and sharing data must be taken into consideration. Great use of IoT sensors will aid with monitoring crucial infrastructure, such as monitoring the location of trucks hauling hazardous materials, in turn, raises a host of issues to be addressed:
- Privacy concerns
- Determining the agencies that are authorized to issue or place sensors
- Data access and security
Granted the private sector has taken the lead in deploying IoT devices and solutions widely and quickly, the public sector must now follow suit in deploying IoT devices and adopting interoperable data standards and policies on privacy and access.
That said, government agencies can become proactive by integrating with modern technologies, either by using existing cloud-base IoT and predictive analytics or developing their own to spot issues before citizens even encounter them.
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