2016 IEEE Winter Academy on Internet of Things

Development of IoT-based Applications for Smart Cities

Prof. Carlos Alberto Kamienski, Federal University of ABC (UFABC), Santo Andre, SP, Brazil

Cities are becoming smarter as new technologies, such as IoT, are increasingly used for providing a variety of services and applications. In order for IoT-enabled services for Smart Cities to become reality, application development must be made easy. Currently, many software components have to be engineered from scratch to address fragmentation issues, thus requiring huge amounts of efforts, as developers must have a deep understanding of the technologies, the new application domain, and the interplay with legacy systems. This tutorial will synthesize key advances in this area, such as the use of context-aware management, mixed-criticality systems, data management and communication issues for IoT. Also, this tutorial will approach different issues related to the development of applications for smart cities, such as software architectures and middleware, and will discuss lessons learned from a theoretical and also hands-on perspective. Finally, it will introduce some current research challenges in this area.