With urbanization breaking the 50% barrier, it is of paramount
importance to understand the demand for service profiles to
increase the efficiency of city management. Currently, few
municipalities have platforms or systems for live monitoring
and inferring of urban process parameters. The commonly
employed strategy is data collection, offline analysis, and action;
followed by system adjustments and repetition of the whole
process. Data collection exercises are often costly and difficult to
replicate. There is thus an increased demand on municipalities to
incorporate smart technologies that collect the required data and
analyze them for action, all in real time. Clearly, a large-scale,
platform-independent, diverse-application IoT infrastructure can
aid this process by including data processing and management,
actuation, and analytics. With advanced sensing and computation
capabilities, data are gathered and evaluated in real time to
extract the information, which is further converted to usable
knowledge. This will enhance the decision making of city
management and citizens to turn the city smart.