Towards truly smart city service providers: A view on on-demand everything as a services

Abstract

Internet of Things (IoT) connects a large number of devices/objects, and these devices are being increased that it is foretold their number will reach billions in the near future, and hence increasing the number of IoT-based services. IoT is built on and integrated with many existing technologies (e.g., wireless sensors, mobile computing, and cloud) which support its spreading and scalability and help it to overcome its known challenges like limited resources. Moreover, service composition supports IoT in the rapid development of new IoT applications leveraging the existing services. These paradigms and techniques are fundamental building blocks and enablers of smart cities. IoT service composition and IoT integration with the above-stated technologies have been addressed in research and industry works. In this paper, we review several types compositions and give our view on future smart city service providers. We also propose a location-aware architecture for integrating IoT services and mobile application services. The proposal is illustrated based on shopping mall scenario, and the high-level architecture is presented in this work.