Includes bibliographical references and index.

"There currently is no in-depth book dedicated to the challenge of the Internet of Everything and Big Data Technologies in Smart-Cities. The world today is confronting a critical worldwide portability challenge and the framework that moves cities must keep pace with the innovation. This book reviews the applications, technologies, standards, and other issues related to Smart Cities. The book is dedicated to addressing the major challenges in realizing smart cities and sensing platforms in the era of Big Data cities and Internet of Everything. Challenges vary from cost and energy efficiency to availability and service quality. This book examines security issues and challenges, addresses the total information science challenges, covers exploring and creating IoT environment related sales -adaptive systems, and investigates basic and high-level concepts using the latest techniques implemented by researchers and industrial companies. The book is written for analysts researchers, and specialists who are working in the future generation of the technologies. It will serve as a valuable guide for industry people, and students as well"--