Adapting IoT for smart cities and the necessary steps

Building a smart city is not a one-day business, neither is it the work of one person or organization. It requires the collaboration of many strategic partners, leaders, and even citizens. The dynamics of such a collaboration is beyond the scope of this book, but, since the book is for AI enthusiasts and engineers, let's explore what the AI community can do, what are the areas that provide us with a career or entrepreneurship opportunity. Any IoT platform will necessarily require the following:

• A network of smart things (sensors, cameras, actuators, and so on) for gathering data
• Field (cloud) gateways that can gather the data from low power IoT devices, store it, and forward it securely to the cloud
• Streaming data processor for aggregating numerous data streams and distributing them to a data lake and control applications
• A data lake for storing all the raw data, even the ones that seem of no value yet
• A data warehouse that can clean and structure...