Kenneth Kagoiya

Abstract

Dongo Kundu free port area is earmarked for development as per Kenya Ports Authority master plan. Industrial and commercial cities suffer problems such as air and water pollution, traffic and human congestion, power, energy, water , health data services inadequacy due to poor planning. It is with this in mind that the smart city requirements should be specified for this and other large scale developments in Kenya. A set of guidelines and specifications have been proposed in planning design and implementation of various infrastructure and services to enable smart city realization. Smart city services include smart grid power system, smart telecontrol of interlinked services, smart parking, and smart street lighting among others. The proposed enabling technology is the Internet of things technology at application, network, sensor levels including energy harvesting and integration of remote IOT systems with renewable energy sources.

Virtualization of IOT network functions enhances routing and control protocol performance. Real time processing storage, data clean up, data compression in embedded computing environment enables IOT use in smart cities. Wireless network security, cryptography management authorization enhances intrusion and also cross layer attacks detection.Research and development work that need to be carried out include development of metrics for evaluation of IOT sustainability and Return on investment.some of these metrics are required at design,technology implementation and deployment to give a clear guideline on performance evaluation .The measures explore include those for interoperability ,reliability,usability,maintainability well as ivolvabilty among other Implementation and deployment scenario need to be investigated using experimental prototypes, test bends and field trials.