Design and Implementation of Smart City Applications Based on the Internet of Things

TLDR

The COVID‑19 pandemic has radically altered society, and smart cities—leveraging technology to enhance services in health, education, energy, transport, and communication—are seen as essential for sustaining daily life during and after the crisis. This paper proposes two IoT applications for smart cities: an intelligent health‑monitoring system to curb COVID‑19 transmission and relieve medical staff, and an energy‑usage monitoring system to track consumption and detect line trespassing. Both systems use real‑time sensor networks that collect data—health metrics for the monitoring system and electrical parameters for the energy system—and transmit it to a central server. The energy‑monitoring system enables detection of power‑line trespassers.

Abstract

<p class="0abstract">Since the emergence of the Coronavirus and its declaration as a global pandemic, the world has changed all sectors radically. Covid-19 has caused a very strong effect on daily life and adaptation to new ways of learning, working, and communicating. The smart city is one of the most important solutions that enable us to go on with daily life during the pandemic and beyond. The smart city employs the current technology and smart solutions to serve the community, and improve the services provided to the people, particularly in vital sectors such as health, education, electricity, transportation, communications, and others. This article deals with two innovative applications for the Internet of things in smart cities: The first refers to designing an intelligent health monitoring system, which aims to reduce the spread of Coronavirus infection from people to the medical staff, as well as reduce work pressure on the medical staff. The second application refers to monitoring electrical energy consumed by measuring and monitoring electrical parameters and energy consumption. In addition, it helps us to know the power line trespasser. Both systems are implemented by using sensors to gather data in real-time and then transmit it to the server.</p>