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College of Computing & Informatics
Kevin Young
College of Computing & Informatics
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Computer Science
Faculty Mentor: Dr. Guarav Naik
Computer Science
Utilizing the Internet of Things (IoT) to Build Smart Cities
According to the Brookings Institute, more than 50% of the world’s population lives in urban areas and, with current urbanization growth rates increasing, it is expected that urban dwellers will swell to 75% of the population by 2050. With such high rates of urban population growth, city managers and planners are increasingly interested in Smart City technologies as a means to more cost-effectively and equitably provide a wide range of critical resources and services to urban population.
A smart city is essentially an urban area that utilizes various technology such as sensors for data collection, which may include people, cars, buses, trains, bikes, etc. This research project entails the development of an application used to monitor and visualize the movement of vehicles in the specified areas of a given location, creating data that could potentially improve the productivity of the city. It is envisioned that the data created by tools like this can be fed into algorithms that may help cities plan public transportation routes, and help in the management of ride sharing applications, among many other applications.
