Networking Technologies for Smart Cities: An Overview

Abstract

Considering the complex architecture of Smart City environments it should not be forgotten that their foundation lies in communication technologies that allow connectivity and data transfer between the elements in Smart City environments. Wireless communications with their capabilities represent Smart City enabling technologies that gives the opportunity for their rapid and efficient implementation and expansion as well. In that field the evident trend is appearance of numerous technologies, which can be applied in variety of scenarios. In order to be able to make rapid deployment of the Smart City systems it is necessary to perform good analyses of performances and applicability of those technologies. By knowing the characteristics of particular technologies, the professionals will have the opportunity to develop efficient, cost effective and flexible Smart City systems by implementing the most suitable one. In this article the review and discussion on wireless technologies for enabling Smart City services is presented.

Keywords

• smart city services
• wireless communications
• wireless technologies