Smart Governance of Heterogeneous Internet of Things for Smart Cities

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a fast-emerging technology which aims to address the societal challenges faced by the modern cities. IoT can be underpinned in a wide range of Smart City applications including (but not limited to) holistic urban planning, tracking of city wide services, enhancing public transportation, while reducing traffic congestion, keeping citizens safe, enabling sustainable economic growth, and improving quality of life of citizens. IoT has been growing rapidly in different domains, which led to the development of numerous IoT platforms, standards, and protocols, etc. Today, within a Smart City, different types of IoT systems and applications are deployed which operate independently. There is a need to enable city authorities and application developers to see IoT systems as part of an integrated whole, allowing optimal use of existing infrastructure and achieving more than what these independent systems can do in isolation. Furthermore, with the arrival of European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the governance of diverse IoT resources has become a critical requirement. This paper presents a smart governance methodology designed for managing heterogeneous IoT systems. The proposed approach facilitates the semantic interoperability of IoT infrastructure deployed across various domains in Smart Cities and enables integrated governance (and management) of IoT systems and their resources.