PeerJ Computer Science (Dec 2023)

Integration of federated learning with IoT for smart cities applications, challenges, and solutions

  • Yazeed Yasin Ghadi,
  • Tehseen Mazhar,
  • Syed Faisal Abbas Shah,
  • Inayatul Haq,
  • Wasim Ahmad,
  • Khmaies Ouahada,
  • Habib Hamam

DOI
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj-cs.1657
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9
p. e1657

Abstract

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In the past few years, privacy concerns have grown, making the financial models of businesses more vulnerable to attack. In many cases, it is hard to emphasize the importance of monitoring things in real-time with data from Internet of Things (IoT) devices. The people who make the IoT devices and those who use them face big problems when they try to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques in real-world applications, where data must be collected and processed at a central location. Federated learning (FL) has made a decentralized, cooperative AI system that can be used by many IoT apps that use AI. It is possible because it can train AI on IoT devices that are spread out and do not need to share data. FL allows local models to be trained on local data and share their knowledge to improve a global model. Also, shared learning allows models from all over the world to be trained using data from all over the world. This article looks at the IoT in all of its forms, including “smart” businesses, “smart” cities, “smart” transportation, and “smart” healthcare. This study looks at the safety problems that the federated learning with IoT (FL-IoT) area has brought to market. This research is needed to explore because federated learning is a new technique, and a small amount of work is done on challenges faced during integration with IoT. This research also helps in the real world in such applications where encrypted data must be sent from one place to another. Researchers and graduate students are the audience of our article.

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