Design and Simulation of the Internet of Things for Accra Smart City

Abstract

The Internet of Things (IoT) concept of connecting objects with IP address to a network has many significant applications such as smart health, smart cities, and smart energy. This study focuses on the use of Internet of Things for smart cities and its advantages. In this paper our main goal is to model and simulate an IoT system for Accra smart city that uses smart webcams with IP address that are addressable to allow these smart webcam transmit valuable information to users. The designed smart city will address a challenge by giving live feeds on traffic situations and flooding on major routes to people. We used cisco packet tracer to model and simulate the IoT network where smart webcams can remotely transmit data packets. The results of the simulation indicates that when the smart webcam are connected in a wireless medium, they can send and receive data packets via a 6LowPAN gateway which can be access by users in the Internet.

Keywords:Internet of Things, Smart City, Smart Webcam