Mante Shubham Prakash received his Master of Science in Electronics and Communication Engineering (ECE). His research work was supervised by Dr. Aftab Hussain. Here’s a summary of his research work on IoT Data Processing for Smart City and Semantic Web Applications:
The world has been experiencing rapid urbanisation over the last few decades, putting a strain on existing city infrastructure such as waste management, water supply management, public transport and electricity consumption. We are also seeing increasing pollution levels in cities threatening the environment, natural resources and health conditions. However, we must realise that the real growth lies in urbanisation as it provides many opportunities to individuals for better employment, healthcare and better education. Cities have now become one of the major contributors to the world’s gross domestic product; therefore, urbanisation should always be seen as an opportunity. However, it is imperative to limit the ill effects of rapid urbanisation through integrated action plans to enable the development of growing cities. This gave rise to the concept of a smart city in which all available information associated with a city will be utilised systematically for better city management.
Needless to say, data associated with the city plays a vital role in understanding the city’s current state and quickly addressing the issues discussed earlier. The systematic collection, processing and analysis of data allow for the incorporation of data intelligence and helps inform decisions on issues that matter to the lives of city residents. City management officials have been collecting data for years; however, their department-centric nature has created data silo issues and made it difficult to manage and share, thus hindering the data analysis process. Considering these issues in existing data systems, this work proposes a novel Smart City data management system architecture to systematically collect, store, exchange and analyse data collected from various sensing nodes depicting smart city application.
March 2023