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IoT Smart City – What is Smart Home?

Smart Home is the term commonly used to define a residence that has appliances, lighting, heating, air conditioning, TVs, computers, entertainment audio & video systems, security, and camera systems capable of communicating with one another and can be controlled remotely by a time schedule, from any room in the home, as well as remotely from any location in the world by phone or internet. From … Continue reading IoT Smart City – What is Smart Home? »

IoT Smart City – What is Smart Water?

Smart water is the solution smart cities have been working on to control and prevent the waste of water. Water conservation is necessary for smart cities to exist and function efficiently. Smart water solutions are growing as they give consumers the ability to easily monitor their water consumption and provide useful information to the public. Water loss management is becoming increasingly important as supplies are … Continue reading IoT Smart City – What is Smart Water? »

IoT Smart City – What is Smart Grid?

The smart grid is the integration of the 20th century traditional electrical power grid with the most recent 21st telecommunication and information technologies. Such integration enables efficient resource utilization to optimize energy consumption, install and manage distributed energy sources, as well as to exchange the generated power. In the simplest terms, building a smart grid means securing the future of energy supply for everyone in … Continue reading IoT Smart City – What is Smart Grid? »

IoT Smart City – What is Smart Parking?

Smart Parking is a parking strategy that combines technology and human innovation in an effort to use as few resources as possible—such as fuel, time and space—to achieve faster, easier and denser parking of vehicles for the majority of time they remain idle. Smart parking refers to the use of sensing devices to determine occupancy at the space level or at the lot/structure level. Sensing … Continue reading IoT Smart City – What is Smart Parking? »

IoT Smart City – What is Smart Building?

An Internet of Things (IoT) Smart Building (SB) is any structure using automated processes to automatically control the building’s operations including heating, ventilation, air conditioning, lighting, security and other systems. A smart building uses sensors, actuators and microchips, in order to collect data and manage the different building operations based on specific business functions and services rules. The IoT is advancing a new breed of smart buildings … Continue reading IoT Smart City – What is Smart Building? »