IoT for Sustainable Smart Cities and Society (eBook)

This book provides a sound theoretical base and an extensive practical expansion of smart sustainable cities and societies, while also examining case studies in the area to help readers understand IoT driven solutions in smart cities. The book covers fundamentals, applications, and challenges of IoT for sustainable smart cities and society. With a good understanding of IoT and smart cities, and the associated communication protocols, the book provides an insight into its applications in several areas of smart cities. Models, architectures, and algorithms are presented that provide additional solutions. The main challenges discussed that are associated with IoT involved include security, privacy, authenticity, etc. The book is relevant to researchers, academics, professionals, and students.

Parul Agarwal is associated with Jamia Hamdard since 2002. She is currently an Associate Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Her area of specialization includes Fuzzy Data Mining, Cloud Computing, Sustainable computing, and Soft Computing. Her particular interest includes applications of Sustainable Computing in Agriculture, transportation and health care. She has published several papers in reputed and SCI, Scopus and Elsevier indexed journals and many book chapters published by CRC press, Springer, IGI-Global are to her credit. She is Editor of three books with reputed publishers like CRC, and Springer. She has chaired several sessions of International/ National Conferences of repute. Currently, several PhD. Scholars are working under her supervision in the field of Brain Signalling, Energy minimization in Cloud, Time series forecasting, and Smart Building management for smart cities. She has organized a workshop as Principal Investigator in 2017, on 'Use of ICT in sustainable Computing' approved by Department of Science and Technology, Govt. of India, worth 5.75 Lakhs. A member of several committees at university level and membership of several professional bodies like ISTE, IEEE are to her credit.