Potentials of semantic internet of things in smart cities: an overview and roadmap

In the last period, realizing the smart cities vision has required utilizing many technologies, such as internet of things and others. Our investigation in this study reveals that semantic internet of things technologies have a vital role in addressing essential issues in smart cities, primarily interoperability issues. Hence, in this paper we extrapolate and highlight the potentials of semantic internet of things in smart cities based on examining many sample cases. Additionally, this paper provides a general roadmap and an abstract architecture to facilitate exploiting semantic internet of things in smart cities. Common frameworks, ontologies, standards, and tools that are used in many sample cases are extracted and accentuated. The study also pinpoints the most frequent quality attributes that are considered in semantic internet of things in smart cities’ field. Finally, the paper identifies the ongoing issues that still require improvement regarding the semantic internet of things in smart cities.