Cloud of Things (CoT) based Smart Cities

The promotion of IoT and cloud-based services are a part of the Smart Cities project in which real-world entities like smartphones, sensors, and RFIDs are utilized. In the present scenario, the two most important ICT models are Cloud computing and IoT that will be the major factors in reshaping the future of computers. Both of these components have a big influence on the deployment of smart cities and related applications. Cloud uses the Internet for rendering its services of providing resources over the Internet. On the other side, a new generation of devices that provide free services to the user on the network with a bunch of value-added add-ons is a discipline of IoT. This paper provides a descriptive view of the domain of smart cities implementation. The paper also tells about the smart city framework with an explanation of its working based on the Cloud of Things (CoT).