The Role of Cloud Computing in Smart Cities

Abstract

Withsmart cities, people's living areas become better and their living standardsrise. People can easily access the information they want and plan accordingly.In this way, they live a better quality and productive world. They can alsoremotely control and direct any smart system at home, in his car or in hisoffice, regardless of time and location. In addition, thanks to intelligentsystems, government agencies can control different parts of the city as well asforesee and take precautionary damages. Health, military, industrial,environmental, agricultural, logistics, transportation systems are realizedwith economic and social gains. All these smart systems require infrastructure.There are many technical and financial needs such as the servers that thedevices that make up the systems can send the data, the servers where thesedata will be stored, the maintenance and security of these servers. At thispoint, Cloud Computing emerges. Cloud computing, a new generation of topics, isthe general name of Internet-based IT services that can be used by computersand other devices at any time and provides shared resources among users. WithCloud Computing, users can access the system from anywhere on the internet.Cloud Computing is becoming a part of technologies in smart cities with itssuccess in cost, global scale, speed, performance, efficiency, security andreliability. With cloud computing, servers, storage areas, databases andnumerous application services are easily accessible over the internet, makingintegration of the systems in smart cities and the exchange of informationbetween them more constructive. In this study, the role of Cloud Computing insmart cities will be explained. The current literature review will reveal the latesttrends in these two areas. The study is considered to be beneficial for smartcities technology developers.