Survey on Collaborative Smart Drones and Internet of Things for Improving Smartness of Smart Cities

Abstract

Smart cities contain intelligent things which can intelligently.automatically and collaboratively enhance life quality, save peoples lives, and act as sustainable resources. To achieve these tasks, advanced collaborative technologies such as drones, machine learning, and Internet of Things (IoT) are required to increase the smartness of smart cities by improving the connectivity, energy efficiency,and quality of services (QoS) provision over smart cities. Therefore, collaborative drones and IoT play vital role in supporting a lot of smart cities applications such as those involved in communication, transportation, agriculture, monitoring, disaster mitigation, environmental preservation, service delivery, pollution mitigation, energy saving, e-waste reduction, weather monitoring, etc. This paper presents a critical survey of the potential techniques and applications of collaborative drones and IoT which have recently been proposed in order to increase the smartness of smart cities. We provide a comprehensive survey highlighting the recent and ongoing research on collaborative drone and IoT in improving the real-time application of smart cities. This survey is different from previous surveys in term of breadth, scope, and focus. In particular, we focus on the new concept of collaborative drones and IoT for improving smart cities applications. This survey attempts to show how collaborative drones and IoT improve the smartness of smart cities based on data collection, privacy and security, public safety, disaster management, energy consumption and quality of life in smart cities. It mainly focuses on the measurement of the smartness of smart cities, i.e., environmental aspects, life quality, public safety, and disaster management. The collaborative drones and future IoT technologies provides some clues.