IoT and Mobility in Smart Cities

Abstract

In a smart city environment, one of the leading problems that local authorities are expected to deal with, is traffic. The adoption of IoT technologies may provide contemporary cities with practical solutions. The installation of smart sensors and cameras provide specialists with a plentiful of data. The results of their usage can be studied and bring conclusions regarding a more appropriate architecture of public transport networks. In practice, smart cities can acquire smart parking networks, control of traffic violations and vehicle tracking through platforms that could observe traffic using the consolidation of information selected by smart sensors. This article refers to the smart sensors’ technologies in IoT mobility and their implementation, the challenges encountered in citizens’ privacy and protection of their personal data as well as the possibility of IoT use for the prevention of pedestrians’ accidents.