Determining the Internet of Things (IOT) Challenges on Smart Cities: A Systematic Literature Review

Internet of Things (IoT) solutions on smart cities are widely recognized to address the complexity of modern city operation. Concentration of population, scarcity of resources and environmental concerns are the significant challenges that face city operators, and make ordinary service provisioning less efficient. Recently, IoT application on smart cities gained a major attention from both academics and practitioners. Numerous studies have been conducted to understand and examine its impact on organization, socio-economic and environment. Relying on a systematic literature review, the objective of this paper is to contribute towards better understanding of IoT challenges in smart cities and provide the gap between the existing state-of-the-art IoT application on smart cities. To achieve the objective main of this paper, three research questions were conducted to explore what challenges have been addressed in the literature. By collecting and reviewing related studies published from 2010 to 2016, 10 studies which address IoT challenges in smart cities were identified and synthesized. By following review protocol to cover related studies in this period, this effort could be valuable for both academic and practitioners to further understandings and brings them up to date about IoT challenges on smart cities.