A Study of Cloud Computing and IoT for Smart Cities

While urbanization is on the rise, smart cities are cropping up to address sustainability, mobility, and public service management challenges. Internet of Things (IoT) is the foundation of smart city infrastructure, supporting effortless data collection and communication between devices, systems, and citizens. Cloud computing provides the scalable infrastructure and computational power to handle massive amounts of data produced by IoT devices. This paper examines the contribution of cloud computing to facilitating smart city services by means of IoT, examines technological synergies, identifies use cases, and explores the advantages and drawbacks of this union.