IoT and related big data applications can significantly advance environmental sustainability in smart sustainable cities, but this paper provides a framework for future research.

The IoT for smart sustainable cities of the future: An analytical framework for sensor-based big data applications for environmental sustainability

This paper presents a taxonomy of sensors that expands the IoT-Stream model, enabling transparent sharing of information in smart cities, reducing unnecessary duplication of sensors and network infrastructure.

Extending the IoT-Stream Model with a Taxonomy for Sensors in Sustainable Smart Cities

Smart cities are a promising future, but technical, socio-economic, and environmental challenges must be addressed for sustainable smart city development.

Enabling technologies and sustainable smart cities

IoT-enabled smart cities can address challenges in mobility, healthcare, energy, and civil infrastructure by combining cloud computing, robotics, MEMS, wireless communications, and RFID.

Internet of Things-enabled smart cities: State-of-the-art and future trends

IoT-based sensor data collection and management in smart buildings can lead to energy efficiency and a Green Smart Building.

Efficient IoT-based sensor BIG Data collection-processing and analysis in smart buildings

Sensors play a crucial role in creating sustainable smart cities, improving quality of life through diverse applications in energy, health, mobility, security, water, and waste management.

Sensors for Sustainable Smart Cities: A Review

IoT, through applications like bicycle sharing systems, can make urban transportation more green and convenient, contributing to a sustainable and smart city.

IoT and A Sustainable City

Integrating IoT and AI in smart cities can enhance sustainability, productivity, and comfort for urban dwellers, with 5G networks and AI potentially advancing modern urban environments.

Integration of IoT-Enabled Technologies and Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Smart City Scenario: Recent Advancements and Future Trends

Green IoT for Smart Cities can reduce carbon footprint, optimize resource allocation, improve air quality, and enhance quality of life for citizens, but faces challenges like data security and privacy concerns.

GREEN IOT FOR SUSTAINABLE SMART CITIES: INNOVATIONS AND CHALLENGES

IoT-enabled wireless sensor networks can efficiently monitor and enhance sustainable cities by providing real-time information and predicting environmental conditions.

Optimizing Sensor Network in Sustainable City

This paper presents practical solutions to challenges faced during the deployment and management of city-scale IoT infrastructure, based on the SmartSantander testbed case in Santander, Spain.

Practical Lessons From the Deployment and Management of a Smart City Internet-of-Things Infrastructure: The SmartSantander Testbed Case

Smart cities, with their distributed IoT devices, can improve urban living by addressing challenges like pollution, energy efficiency, security, and transportation.

Energy efficiency and the role of IoT in a smart city connected community

AI integration in Smart Cities can boost economic growth and liveability, but must focus on sustainability and liveability dimensions for successful compliance with Sustainable Development Goals and the New Urban Agenda.

On big data, artificial intelligence and smart cities

IoT sensors play a crucial role in urban disaster management, contributing to resilient and sustainable city development.

Sensors on the Internet of Things Systems for Urban Disaster Management: A Systematic Literature Review

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a cloud-centric vision for worldwide implementation, enabling seamless sensing and data sharing across platforms, transforming the Internet into a fully integrated Future Internet.

Internet of Things (IoT): A vision, architectural elements, and future directions

The proposed lightweight security framework effectively authenticates and maintains context providers and receivers in smart environments, reducing cyber threats and enhancing security in smart sustainable cities.

A lightweight cyber security framework with context-awareness for pervasive computing environments

IoT plays a crucial role in green engineering transformation for smart cities, enabling smart living and environment through communication among devices and reducing emissions, natural resources, and energy usage.

IoT in Green Engineering Transformation for Smart Cities

The HABPA algorithm optimizes power drain, battery lifetime, standard deviation, and packet loss ratio in IoT-enabled devices, resulting in a sustainable and green smart city platform.

Towards an optimal resource management for IoT based Green and sustainable smart cities

AI-powered IoT and wireless sensor networks can effectively minimize inefficiencies in the healthcare sector, contributing to smart city goals.

IoT for Smart Cities: Machine Learning Approaches in Smart Healthcare - A Review

Smart urban green spaces, integrating advanced technologies, can optimize resource efficiency and enhance maintenance and operations for sustainable cities.

Smart urban management of green space

The role of sensors and IoT in creating smart and sustainable urban environments.

These studies suggest that sensors and IoT play a crucial role in creating smart and sustainable urban environments by improving energy efficiency, mobility, healthcare, and resource management, while also addressing challenges like data security and privacy.