IoT deployment for smarter cities with special reference to mobility

The Internet of Things is a fast-growing and pervasive reality, and millions of physical entities - from consumer products to transport vehicles, are recorded and tracked in time and space. Smart City projects are becoming suitable platform for exploring the IoT deployments to enhance performance and well-being, and to engage more effectively and actively with its citizens. Bicycling is an important part of the solution to many urban transportation issues since the growing increase in motor vehicle use is burdening cities with increasing problems and costs related to congestion, accidents, loss of amenity and space, noise, poor urban air quality having adverse effects on both the natural and built environment. In this paper, we present a framework in which city bicycles are being proposed to be used as urban sensing platform. Such a network will also be useful for several entities like city authorities for road maintenance and deployment and environment authorities, etc., not only to make the urban biking easier but would also involve addressing some technical issues in terms of sensors and base station deployments, appropriate communication protocols, integration with City admin servers thus highlighting effective use cases with IoT forming the technical infrastructure for "Transport and Mobility Solutions".