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the emergence of a common operational picture (COP) at a global
level. One solution that would address these issues would be to build a
Homeland Security sensor cloud that services all Web-connected sur-
veillance sensor networks: video, audio, radar, trace detectors, access
control, motion detectors, and so on. e sensor cloud would store the
sensor data and allow authorized users to view and analyze the same.
Agency-specific applications can be developed based on the needs of
the user agencies. To get such an initiative off the ground, countries
and their respective homeland security agencies have to be agreeable
to having their data stored in clouds. Some sensor networks will need
to be upgraded to meet a minimum quality-of-data level (e.g., optical
resolution in the case of video surveillance cameras). Such a move will
also allow homogenization of sensor specifications with the objective
of ensuring that the most optimum sensors are selected for a par-
ticular use case. e sensor networks will need to conform to a com-
mon standard (either by upgrading the hardware or by plugging in a
gateway) to ensure that they connect to the cloud and that the data
streams for each type of sensor can be stored in a common database.
e owners of the data will have to be agreeable to share their data (in
combination with data from other owners) for analysis, data mining,
and other information-extraction techniques.
5.12 Conclusion
In the last decade, the IoT paradigm has slowly but steadily conquered
the minds of researchers and engineers to become one of the most
exciting, innovative, transformative, and disruptive domains. In this
chapter, we have explained the radical contributions of the celebrated
IoT concept in setting up and sustaining next-generation cities, the
incredible IoT technologies, the noteworthy transformations that are
bound to flourish in the days ahead, the network architectures that
are to shape the forthcoming applications for simplifying and stream-
lining city processes, and so on. We have described the industry-
strength IoT frameworks emerging to build city-specific applications
and services. ere are data analytics platforms to create reliable and
usable insights and feed them to respective applications to be excep-
tionally resilient, versatile, and adroit.
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