Internet of Things and The Smart City Project Case Study – The Smart City of Tripoli – Libya

Abstract

The recent increment of population in the urban
areas requires well-operated and well managed cities with lots
of automation in various aspects of everyday life. The
backbone of this smart city is the Internet-of-Things (IoT)
technology. Smart city concept has gained importance in urban
development literature and there have been many initiatives
and projects around the world implementing the smart city
concepts.
The urgent need for development and expansion in the city
of Tripoli requires us to shift to the smart city model, with its
attendant challenges. As well as laying the basis for a new
service to be added to the smart city project so that it can be
used as much as possible
The city of Tripoli has gone through many political and
economic eras, which affected the course of its development
and created some obstacles. In this paper, we explained the
smart city project for the city of Tripoli and what has been
achieved from it so far with the design of a new service for the
smart city of Tripoli