IoT Smart City Architectures an Analytical Evaluation
This work addresses the problem of selecting appropriate IoT architectures for smart city development, but it is incremental as it focuses on comparative analysis rather than introducing new architectures.
The paper tackled the lack of assessment and comparison of IoT architectures for smart cities by applying an evaluation framework with 33 criteria to analyze nine existing architectures, highlighting their strengths and weaknesses to aid city leaders and developers in selection.
While several IoT architectures have been proposed for enabling smart city visions, not much work has been done to assess and compare these architectures. By applying our proposed evaluation framework that incorporates a variety of 33 criteria, this paper presents a comparative analysis of nine existing well-known IoT architectures. The results of the analysis highlight the strengths and weaknesses of these architectures and give insight to city leaders, architects, and developers aiming at selecting the most appropriate architecture or their combination that may fit their own specific smart city development scenario. Keywords. Internet of things, IoT, smart city architecture, evaluation framework