Secure, Sustainable Smart Cities and the IoT

Dear Colleagues,

It is our pleasure to invite you to submit a research paper to this Special Issue dedicated to “Secure, Sustainable Smart Cities and the Internet of Things (IoT)”. Submissions covering the most promising approaches and ideas in the fields of sustainable smart cities, smart healthcare, data-driven technology, IoT, security and privacy, and other relevant areas are invited.

In recent years, the notion of "smart cities" and “IoT” has gained widespread acceptance. Smart cities are appealing because they integrate innovative technology with eco-friendly infrastructure. The Internet of Things (IoT) is a key component of the infrastructure of smart cities as a new sustainable approach due to its incredible potential to develop technologies such as autonomous vehicles, smart homes, electronic health records, smart grids, smart manufacturing, smart agriculture, and so on. To make sure future smart cities are sustainable, it is important to build an IoT infrastructure that is secure, scalable, and beneficial to the environment.

However, throughout the design, implementation, and operation phases, there are challenges to the practical implementation of smart cities with supporting technogies, such as IoT, eHealth, and smart homes. The cost of design and operation, device heterogeneity, huge data acquisition and processing, data security, and long-term sustainability are among the key challenges.

To mitigate this, researchers are increasingly developing a wide variety of sustainable technology that may be used to pave the way for smart urban planning. IoT, cyber-physical systems, cloud and service-oriented computing, smart grid, eHealth, intelligent transportation systems, unmanned aerial vehicles, autonomous driving, machine learning, artificial intelligence, computer vision, and blockchain technology are just a few examples of this enabling technology. The integration of various enabling technologies is an emerging field that presents significant potential for smart-city research.

This Special Issue entitled “Secure, Sustainable smart cities, and the IoT” covers various subjects related to sustainability, smart cities, smart healthcare, data-driven technology, and IoT.

Dr. Iqram Hussain
Dr. MD Rashedul Hasan Sarker
Dr. Md Azam Hossain
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All submissions that pass pre-check are peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the Special Issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 250 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for assessment.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-anonymized peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 2400 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.